Platon

And I felt ashamed of myself.

For the first time in my life, I had put a photograph above the well-being of a person.

As I apologized, she said, you don't understand why I'm crying.

I'm crying, she said.

because I just realized they washed his clothes and I wanted to smell him again."

If you felt that, then something beautiful just happened.

We all came into this room defined by our differences.

Men, women, old, young, black, white, dare I say members of the left, dare I say members of the right, different genders, different religious groups, cultures.

But we all felt that together.

What we felt is compassion.

Compassion for someone you've never even met.

That's the power of human connection, and that's why we will not go down as the generation of connectivity that disconnected itself.

No.

I think we're going to rise up.

I think we're going to rekindle the spirit of optimism.

It seems to me they underestimated the resilience of humanity.

Whose eye is this?

Someone you love?

Someone you hate?

It belongs to a man who was robbed of the power of human connection.