IF ONLY I LIVE TO TELL...
Do you think it will be fair? No doubt, I am an excellent storyteller. I will leave your jaw dropped with my tales of manipulated words and languages. It is going to be all about me, me and myself alone. I will pretend to i...
It is a matter of where you originated from. How you start evaluating each one of them seriously. As you grow or move to some new places, there will always be some kind of contradictions. The tendency to compare and deciding to follow suit or to abandon certain practices will always be there. Once you are matured the judgement will be less and a certain kind of personal respect room will be created. If you are lucky!
Life is not just about academic and memorizing formulas, it is more than that. This world allows you to find similarities of cultures, observing weirdness of act practiced by others and most of all to observe and to understand variations while sharing this whole wide world.
Religion like it or not will be your guideline, at times putting pressure considering halal or haram, permissible or guilty. I guess a perfect religion too will create a sensible human being. As many already said, if your religion demanded you to hate and finding fault of others, leave or run as fast as you could.
Our aim is always well being. Wonderful surroundings, eat well, working smoothly and of course peacefully able to sleep tight while looking forward the very next day to be better.
Religion, race, political stance; these are areas that we should really consider important in order to achieve some kind of balanced living. Remember, each one will be used diligently as weapon to entice us from time to time. Creating hate and tension. Do be careful, like it or not we will be dragged into it. Friendship will be lost, relationship soured after some heated debate or argument. These too were believed to be reason of destruction of human civilization. Imagine, each one of us think that we are the most supreme compared to others. We are the best! The rest are just nothing with terrible historical background. How selfish it can be? In a way we are denying their existence.
A good human somehow understand his stand. He is very clear about history and usually carry with him a bag full of respect. Being humble does not literally means nodding all the time or feeling scared to find ways of neat and honest discussion, in order to gain a respected level of mutual understanding. Do you think you can live without cooperation from others? So take the fast that not all the time you are the master.
So have you discovered your maturity and understanding about co existing? Even with animals and your surroundings – environment? Have you tried becoming a good citizen of the world? Do you only care about you own court yard?
Somehow we as human are always opinionated; remember not all of our opinions count. There were moments when we have to give ways.
I guess when we touch on this issue - growth, maturity, respect, efforts, understandings and good will, they will come naturally if we train ourselves to be opened and able to evaluate our actions and consider opinion or ways of others as well. Personally I think it is very crucial in order to lead a healthy life style.
Our realizations will not allow us to join shallow group of people to question any preferences that is different than them, analyzing their future of heaven or hell, let alone practicing violent culture of forcing others to be like us. That is very wrong. Remember, in life there are certain lines not to be crossed but we can always meet halfway to discuss with full of respect, at the very least to understand.
Regina Ibrahim
7th April 2018
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