Word of the Week: Just

Just is behaving according to what is morally right and fair

For this post, and for your knowledge, it’s also important to know that moral is with reference to the principles of right and wrong behavior.

Throughout my posts, I talk about human decency and treating others like they are, at least, human beings with equally complicated lives. But sometimes treatment of others requires a higher standard, a more just standard.

Many people, just based on who they are or what they look like, don’t experience just results in many spaces within life. Going to work and simply being a quiet person makes them a threat to someone else for a reason known only to the person who chooses to harass them. Their sex or the color of their skin which somehow threatens someone else’s very existence creates an unwarranted hostility that knows no recourse. Or maybe their pedigree makes them a threat because they have so much control over their background. Maybe their accomplishments make them a threat to someone with less... someone who has a ceiling.

It’s getting harder and harder for people in various positions to advocate for themselves. And with that, just results are getting further and further away. Fairness is getting further away.

It’s difficult to fight a fight that people say you’ve lost before even getting into the ring.

So, this post is about doing your part to ensure that everyone receives just treatment. We are in the times where generating social responsibility needs to become the status quo — we need to look out for each other. Not everyone is able to speak up for themselves against evil, hatred or harassment, and it’s a lot to ask others to get involved, that is until it’s us in the position of asking.

Do your part!

Best,
Bree 🩵