Kokosek

 Recently i've watched a movie called "Desert flower", based on autobiographic novel by  Waris Dirie- a Somali model, writer and human activist.  The movie deals with a crucial problem in  Africa, Asia and the Middle East  -   female circumcision* , which is "t he ritual cutting or removal of some or all of the e xternal famale genitalia ".[1] Before watching the film i've heard about this ritual a little but actually i wasn't aware of how cruel and dangerous it is. When something doesn't concern us -  we, people, tend to ignore it. I was so shocked and angry at the time when i was watching the film.  Procedure is performed on girls (from infants to teenagers). The reason why they do it is to make sure the girl keep chastity* until the wedding. There's no medical reason for doing that. It has no benefits. It can be really dangerous and even fatal for those girls. A lot of them has physical and mental complications, due to m ajority of female cir...

    I think the best advice I was given to was to always put yourself in other person’s shoes before judging somebody. It’s as easy as pie to judge and people are doing it continuously. I always try to look from a different perspective and I ask myself few questions – maybe I don’t know something about this person? Maybe they had motives, reasons to act like they did? What emotions accompanied them? When you attempt to actually understand others and the way they behaving and reacting it is more likely that you will judge them with empathy and unbiasedly and as well you will learn compassion. But there’s one catch – don’t forget that everybody is different and everybody has privilege to experience something according to their sensitivity and perception of whole situation. All in all – just wear those shoes and ask yourself a question – how I feel? "If you could put yourself in someone else's shoes, see what they see. hear what they hear, feel what hey feel; would you treat them...