Zyphera

He is not a lesson, he is a reminder. I wrote before in a note for my organization’s website that his notoriety doesn’t come from his speeches to this World’s powerful men but from his attention to others -all normal people, the poor and non educated ones. His behavior is not heroic, it is human. It is the violent atmosphere around that makes us consider it as generous. In fact, the called “MD” is a man who keeps enough humanity to treat Other as his own. When he talks, he doesn’t look for raising population. He talks about facts. When he addresses to powerful persons, he doesn’t accuse. He calls to Human hood’s responsibility.

So in a civilization where violence is the mean to get power and where power is the mean to exist, they see a hero in a person who strongly exits without violence. No money, no army, no politics. His power is his humanity. What is striking is not that he is surviving in such context. What is striking is we reach the point to consider a man as a hero only because he loves the Other as himself.

People who approach him are kidnapped by his benevolence. Some of them are surprised by his innocence. Is it being naïve to not accuse in charge? Is it naïve to forgive Human being to be Human being? Or isn’t It being logical? It is easier to hang superlatives to his name: The Good Doctor, the women repairman, The Congolese hero. We use these to underline he is exceptional and thus to justify we are just normal. Yet I learnt from him we all have this capital from birth. What his fellows see as humility is a deep nature for him. He is not a lesson, he is a breathe of humanity. When I doubt, I like to talk with him. With simple words, he reminds me who we are, naked without all this useless and noisy surplus surrounding.

So when I am breathless and I need fresh air, I don’t leave polluted city. I go to see “MD”.