I’d like to acknowledge
that in all similarities there always is this one thing that works to
make us distinct. But this has always been my prayer that in the event
of an increase in these distinctions that we may not close our minds to
the many similarities that bind us together. That we may hold onto them
in such manner as to make these distinctions be drowned in the holding
tight of them that bind us together. It goes without saying that apart
from the few issues we hew out of life in form of ideology, religion,
race and traditions that draw lines in our lives, we have much more that
we share in common in the form of features as human beings.
We live in our day-to-day lives in our separate niches. We perform different duties all in the implied unity of purpose; to make the world a better place to live in today, tomorrow and in the days to come. Above all is the desire that we do it in the pleasure of our creator.
Then stems up this notion of want, the want to feel better, to live better, and to be appreciated better, to rise higher in identity, in status, in honour, in praise, in fame…. Then enters the competition of pride, the greed for status and the contempt for any other that in spite of any similarity we hold, stands a notch lower or rather is different in our rating from our stance. We dig deep into nothingness and out of it we emerge with magnificent differences swollen with the yeast of pride, only that we may feel special, stand a rank higher and discredit all others as vain. Thus we major on that which will tell us apart and colour us much brighter. We become blind to all similarity and look upon with contempt any attempt at logic.
We as a result lose our focus of the many things that bind us together and from day to day fail to appreciate one another given that we are out to look for a distinction rather than a reason to celebrate our identity as sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, families, groups, professions and more so as human beings. We cushion ourselves with only them that share in our very holdings and segregate them that differ by a hair-width. We end up in endless controversy as we pick holes even with them that we hold camp with.
Is it that difficult, that we may hold it in our minds that we are one, that we share much as human beings rather than entities, that them that hold us apart are but a means but we hold the same destiny no matter the route we take. That we may retrace our purpose as human beings, appreciate our uniqueness and embrace the many factors that bind us together and strive to see a similarity in every difference…
N/B This article first appeared in the facebook notes of Henry Paul Gichana I specifically and intentionally chose to replicate it here that it may encourage our positive thinking that we may appreciate each others ideas irrespective of the eyes with which we look at the same scenario and that this be so without prejudice to our beliefs and our right to hold and air out our considered opinions with utmost freedom yet courteously so.
We live in our day-to-day lives in our separate niches. We perform different duties all in the implied unity of purpose; to make the world a better place to live in today, tomorrow and in the days to come. Above all is the desire that we do it in the pleasure of our creator.
Then stems up this notion of want, the want to feel better, to live better, and to be appreciated better, to rise higher in identity, in status, in honour, in praise, in fame…. Then enters the competition of pride, the greed for status and the contempt for any other that in spite of any similarity we hold, stands a notch lower or rather is different in our rating from our stance. We dig deep into nothingness and out of it we emerge with magnificent differences swollen with the yeast of pride, only that we may feel special, stand a rank higher and discredit all others as vain. Thus we major on that which will tell us apart and colour us much brighter. We become blind to all similarity and look upon with contempt any attempt at logic.
We as a result lose our focus of the many things that bind us together and from day to day fail to appreciate one another given that we are out to look for a distinction rather than a reason to celebrate our identity as sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, families, groups, professions and more so as human beings. We cushion ourselves with only them that share in our very holdings and segregate them that differ by a hair-width. We end up in endless controversy as we pick holes even with them that we hold camp with.
Is it that difficult, that we may hold it in our minds that we are one, that we share much as human beings rather than entities, that them that hold us apart are but a means but we hold the same destiny no matter the route we take. That we may retrace our purpose as human beings, appreciate our uniqueness and embrace the many factors that bind us together and strive to see a similarity in every difference…
N/B This article first appeared in the facebook notes of Henry Paul Gichana I specifically and intentionally chose to replicate it here that it may encourage our positive thinking that we may appreciate each others ideas irrespective of the eyes with which we look at the same scenario and that this be so without prejudice to our beliefs and our right to hold and air out our considered opinions with utmost freedom yet courteously so.
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