Call You By Your Name by Jon AllKeys

In the constant barrage of news, we are confronted daily with overwhelming numbers: casualties from wars, disasters, and tragedies. These numbers scroll across our screens, filling our minds with faceless statistics. As the figures rise, we risk becoming numb, our hearts dulled to the true weight of each loss. The scale of death, when expressed in such large numbers, becomes abstract-too immense for us to grasp fully. We cannot mourn what feels distant and unreal.
But death is not a statistic. Every number is a person. When we attach a name, a story, a face, death takes on its true dimension. These are not just numbers, but lives-someone's parent, sibling, child, or friend. Each had dreams, relationships, and a place in the world. And in that context, the loss becomes palpable. We feel the sorrow, the injustice, the void they leave behind. They were known. They were loved.
It is only through this lens-by remembering that behind every statistic is a human being-that we can keep our empathy alive. The danger lies not in the sorrow, but in the silence, in allowing the magnitude of loss to render us indifferent. To feel is a mark of our humanity. By giving these lives names, we honor them and remind ourselves that the world’s tragedies are not remote; they are intimately connected to the fabric of all our lives.