Favela - makes most people think of fear, darkness and danger. Guns and drugs, rapes, maleficent people. It always has surprised me how much negativity can be related with only one word. People outside the favela are scared to go favelas, they don’t like to speak about it - it’s like they’re ashamed of it. So they sweep it under the rug and try make it invisible. And there’s the problem. If society shuts whole communities outside, how they think people living there will react?
In Rio de Janeiro, where the big favela communities are, and where I stayed in one of them, I experienced and saw good people with no opportunities. People waking up in the morning and working hard, but getting paid a month what other gain in one week. Again, how society would expect them to make good choices, choose over violence and drugs, if they’re not given the same opportunities than others? Change may come by giving better treatment and respect. One’s background nor wealth shouldn’t say where they belong in this world.
People in the favelas are humble. They are happier with less, and they haven’t let the wealth to get in their heads like many upperclass business pigs. They have their own community where yes, the drug lords are their polices, providing justice and security, but where they take care of each others. They say ¨Good morning¨ and ¨Good night¨, they help you when you need it. I got robbed with my friend, and they did everything they could to make us feel better.
People here also want to live better. Everyone does. But sometimes life doesn’t give everyone the spare share of luck. It will drive them to make bad decisions. We’ve all done them. Even after I got robbed with a knife and lost phones, videocameras and lot of stuff and cursed them to hell, I knew it was not them. It was the problem that exist. Because for them, stealing is easier way to get money than working. So it becomes their work. Because might be that they don’t know about better, about the golden path and better self-conciousness.
And yes, you can see many happy moments here because they are human beings. they care and share. Money will never be the answer. To love and be loved are. To have people who cares around you. To have values and a vision. Skin color, career, wealth or the house you live in shouldn’t say who you are. Those things don’t matter. Weath in substance bring you greed. Wealth in things money can’t buy, brings happiness.
I didn’t feel unsafe not even once in there, I felt love. Those people aren’t bad, they’re just driven to be different or their real selves. Yes, pure maleficent people live there too, but they exist in everywhere. Some of them are running to be a president. Stop judging people based on nothing they are. Watch thru all the insignificant, and see their soul, eyes and behavior.
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