What Makes Us Human - Wrap-Up

WE DID IT! WE ALL SURVIVED THE WHAT MAKES US HUMAN BLOG TOUR!!! 

THIS CALLS FOR HAPPY DANCE TIME!

This was such an interesting and weird tour. Interesting as I found reading/watching everyone's thoughts on this question (and it wasn't an easy question, I grant you) but weird as I have never been in charge of a tour. I usually have an idea and then don't do anything about it. 

Not this one! Not this time. And because this tour was weirdly fun, I might do this again. Maybe. I'm not sure. If I did, I would like to make it a bit bigger and more international... Or maybe something linked to a book series I want to reread...

But let me recover from this one first before I start plotting again, ok? 

Before I give you all the links (in case you missed the tour), I have a few tiny thank yous to say. To you lovely people who followed and read the tour, tweeted it, Facebook it, Instagram it, spread the word, I hope you liked it and it made you think. 

To everyone involved in the tour - Laura, Stevie, Michelle, Rhys, Virginie & Vivienne - thank you so much for taking part. I know it was a weird idea, but to have you guys on board and giving unique opinions and ideas on this question was wonderful. A second thank you goes to Vivienne who I emailed before everyone else, saying "You do blog tours. I need an opinion on if this is a good idea or not...", thank you for telling me to go for it! 

Anyway, now we have that out of the way, if you missed the tour or want to reread the thoughts of everyone who took part, please click on the below links. And thank you again. 

Wednesday 20th January 2016 - Sisterspooky

Thursday 21st January 2016 - SableCaught

Friday 22nd January 2016 - Tales of Yesterday

Saturday 23rd January 2016 - Thirst for Fiction

Sunday 24th January 2016 - The Pewter Wolf (Yours truly...)

Monday 25th January 2016 - Chouett

Tuesday 26th January 2016 - Serendipity Reviews

What Makes Us Human?

When I came up with this idea last year, I was excited over this. I was so excited to see everyone's reactions on what they thought made us human. All the good reasons why we're human. I wanted this tour to be positive, happy, exciting, uplifting.

I have loads of reasons of what makes us human. Love, empathy, compassion to name but a few. But when I started to think about my post for this tour, I kept circling over one idea. But it went against what I wanted for this tour - it went against everything I want for this tour and what I believe - so I kept pushing it away. But it kept coming back. So, here it is. This is my post in the What Makes Us Human tour.

What makes us human is the acts of cruelty we can inflicted on others and how others enjoy the pain caused.

Yep. This post is going to be dark and is going to look at evil. Sorry about that, but hear me out and stay with me.

The world is a dark place. We can turn on the news and we watch horror after horror. And most of them is humans causing pain and hurt onto other humans. Some people believe its for the greater good. Some people do it accidental and without meaning to. Some people just enjoy causing pain.

Even the stuff we do to each other which doesn't make the news can be seen as cruel. Cheating of your partner. Spreading that piece of gossip. Saying that tiny white lie. We do cruel things without realising it. And sometimes, we enjoy the pain we cause. In most cases, the pain and damage we cause is small, tiny, insignificant. But it's the others, the aftermath can be devastating and heartbreaking.

Which means me onto another reason on what makes us human. Something which is hugely important. More important than the cruelty and the evil that we see in the world.

What makes us human is belief.

We believe.

For every act of evil and cruelty, we believe in the act of kindness and goodness. After the horrid shootings in Paris last year, the city defied the act of terror by donating blood. When there is a natural disaster, people donate their time and money towards helping those in need. When someone we know and love (or hate) is in danger, most of us try and come to the person's aid.

We believe that evil will be defeated. And that, to me, is what truly makes us human: our power to believe in better.

If you wish to continue with What Makes Us Human tour, tomorrow's stop is Chouett so check her post out at http://chouett.com. But before I leave you, I am going to leave you with this quote from JK Rowling:

"We do not need magic to transform our world; we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better."

What Makes Us Human? Tour

Hi everyone! This is a surprise announcement over something I have tried to set up! 

I am here to announce a small blog tour between myself and several other lovely book bloggers, asking one question: what makes us human?

Ok, quick history lesson: This idea came to me last summer when I was listening to the radio. On it, there was someone who was talking about this very question. I remember disagreeing very strongly with his wonderings, but as the day went on, I kept thinking about the points he made and going, "Yeah... he does have a valid point...". And the question stuck with me. It got stuck in my brain and I wanted to explore it via this blog, but decided to sit on it for a while and decide the best way to tackle it. 

A few months later (November, I think), I was watching the news in horror. There was one story (and I fear we all know which) that made me really question humanity as a whole. And that was when I knew I had to put this idea into action. So, over the course of the week, I emailed some of my book blogger pals, asking if they wanted to be involved, and they rose to the challenge! Because of that, I love each of you so much! 

So, on this tour, starting this Wednesday, each blogger will answer the question; what makes us human? So, who is taking part? Well... 

Wednesday 20th January 2016 - Sisterspooky

Thursday 21st January 2016 - SableCaught

Friday 22nd January 2016 - Tales of Yesterday

Saturday 23rd January 2016 - Thirst for Fiction

Sunday 24th January 2016 - The Pewter Wolf (That's me! *panics over my post*)

Monday 25th January 2016 - Chouett

Tuesday 26th January 2016 - Serendipity Reviews

I hope you guys all join in with this tour, ask questions about humanity and we can all have a healthy (but civil) debate over this question and all our answers. To everyone who told part in this tour, thank you and, if I ever decide to do this again, you have my blessing to grab a newspaper and hit me round the head with it in an Edna-like fashion or cheer me on! 

See you when the tour starts!