Prejudice!
It is very unfortunate that so much of value is lost through prejudice.
Individual prejudices are bad enough, but we also get embroiled in family prejudices,
religious prejudices, social and cultural prejudices and so on....how much
dislike or even hate we harbor within us! It is incredible!
If
you are divorced, you won't allow your children to keep any contact with the
"estranged" family members. If someone is better than you in some
ways, you don't like them. Complex wins against confidence.
So
much self inflicted grief! For what reason? Because you can't see your own
strengths or know that connectivity comes from the heart, not through wordy
attributes. That getting brain washed against people others don't want you to
keep connections with is a minus in YOUR book only.
Families
have broken up when elders malign and shun family members and teach their
children to hate instead of making their own healthy choices and making them
into wholesome individuals. Friends, now close and now distanced due to nothing
but sudden misunderstandings and resulting prejudices.
I
wish mankind becomes kinder and spiritually mature. Realizes that there is a
story behind every facade. That prejudices affect only your life and mind. And
look at what happens as an extension ....wars, terrorism, crime...all in the name
of prejudice and intolerance.
Not at all worth it!!
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
