The last #WriteUpWednesday "Not human" was truthfully something I did not write recently. I did not have anything prepared at the moment so I started rummaging through random drabbles I had saved on my computer from previous years. "Not human" was a drabble I wrote down in 2014 around the time I was still suffering from that year's *post-MUN syndrome.
The MUN topics that greatly interested me were always the ones regarding Human Rights. That is why, to this day, my favourite committee is SOCHUM and not DISEC--- which is the committee that the greater portion of my MUN friends favour. I do not want to get too political as I'm afraid I may say something inappropriate out of ignorance. However, I believe that the message behind the drabble was something that deeply bothered me at the time: it was about child soldiers. "Not human" was written under the narration of a child soldier who had become "dazed and detached". The tone was a mixture of apathy, spite, and monotone to symbolise the fact that the narrator had already gone past the point of no return and no longer cares about anything in the world. The narrator exists in the world of no morals, no mercy, and no principles. This was how I imagined child soldiers to be like. This was how I imagined some evil acts are made. In my opinion, there are some instances wherein some people have been so deeply wronged by the world that they become unfeeling and therefore easily influenced by those who have truly evil intentions. They become unable to think for themselves, and especially not for others. They lose their autonomy and sense of principles and values. At this point, they become "not human" and are easily influenced by those who wish to make them pawns for evil intentions because they simply lack any semblance of care for anything. They neither care for others or anything, not even themselves. For what I really am, a sheltered kid whose deductions are simply based on what I read off of fiction and news articles (the disparity between both that which is sometimes a very thin line that breaks occasionally), I could be very wrong about anything and everything. However, the scariest thought that comes to me whenever I think these things, is the thought that I may be right. *Post-MUN Syndrome: a syndrome that affects MUN delegates immediately after MUN conferences. The symptoms may persist from as short as 3 days to 2 weeks depending on the case. The symptoms include: bringing a placard to the classroom and raising it up whenever answering a question posed by the teacher, referring to people and themselves in third person, communicating in an extremely formal language, topics brought forth by sufferers become exclusively related to the MUN conference that just passed much to the annoyance of their friends and colleagues who were not part of the event.
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