Day 28 - Scheherazade Showleh

Do not feel guilty for choosing to protect your peace.

Empathy does not mean endless acceptance of violence, and refusal to engage with those who are anti peace,

does not mean you are without compassion. The world is filled with people who will weaponize your empathy

and demand you prove how forgiving you are over and over. Your actions stand for themselves, and so do theirs.

Please don't use the terms "peace and nonviolence" to excuse apathy or absence.  Absence isn't peace, 
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and apathy is not veiled peace. 

Scheherazade Showleh, Edmonton, Alberta