This is a guest post by Tamara Abood, a UK-based psychotherapist to corporate and creative professionals, and a lawyer.

I’m looking at video footage of a young girl on her knees in the middle of a road. It’s night. She’s lit by the car lights nearby. She looks to be in enormous pain. She is clutching herself. At one point she rolls onto her back, struggling with whatever has befallen her.

It transpires that this young girl was in the West Bank and had been shot by Israeli snipers, who then turned their bullets on anyone who tried to save her. In her long agonising end, she bled to death.

Was this video in your feed? Did you see it? What did you feel when you watched this child in her last moments of life?

Maybe you caught a glimpse and instantly scrolled past or clicked away. If so, why did you do that? Was it too much to bear or simply of no interest or relevance to you? Maybe it even annoyed you?

Or maybe you didn’t see it at all because “you’re not on social media” (what a gutless abdication of responsibility to bear witness. Anyway, that’s for another post).

Socrates supposedly said “the unexamined life is not worth living”.

Psychotherapy is all about that examination.

We learn about who we are and why we are as we are by paying attention to our responses.

The best thing we can do for our own development as humans is to stay curious about what gets stirred in us and why.

We are now on day 429 of this Israeli-led depravity, and I wonder what your response to it all tells us about you.