Gevorg Tamamyan, Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of OncoDaily, President of SIOP Asia Continental Branch and Pediatric Oncology East and Mediterranean (POEM) Group, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“We are failing ourselves!
We were in a luxury hotel in one of the countries a few months ago. Everything was perfect – the morning breakfast, lunch, dinner, special shows, and all the comforts one could imagine. Then I took a walk outside the hotel.
A man was walking toward me – poorly dressed, holding the hand of a little girl, around five years old, probably his daughter. She was also poorly dressed, and she was crying.
It wasn’t the first time I had seen poverty. But this time, it struck me differently. Maybe it was the sharp contrast between the luxury of the hotel and the misery outside its walls. Maybe it was because, as a father of two beautiful girls of that age, I took it very personally. But it still sits with me – that image of the crying child.
What was her fault? Why is the world so cruel?
It means we are failing – as a whole, as a global society, as humans. We have failed. We value shiny metal and green paper more than human lives, more than the smile of a child.
We talk about Artificial Intelligence, we implement it in every aspect of our lives – yet we forget that we are humans first. We need to take care of our human intelligence.
Because what is the purpose of all this progress if we lose our humanity along the way?
We build smarter machines, faster systems, bigger empires – but smaller hearts. We celebrate innovation, but ignore compassion. We speak about equality, but walk past suffering.
That little girl crying on the street – she doesn’t care about AI, GDP, or global summits. She just needs warmth, food, and love. And maybe, just maybe, a world that sees her.
We don’t need to be billionaires or world leaders to make a difference. Sometimes being human is enough – looking, listening, caring.
We are capable of incredible things. We can reach the moon, cure diseases, even talk to machines. But the greatest achievement of all would be learning to care for one another again.
Because if we forget that – no invention, no progress, no intelligence, artificial or not – will ever save us.”
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