Showing posts with label Accept. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Accept. Show all posts
Wednesday, 30 October 2024
Friday, 20 September 2024
Tolerance
We are still unable to come to terms with inclusiveness, tolerance and acceptance. We conflict over religion. We debate about our national language. We have forgotten to piece the jigsaw puzzle together to make a wholesome picture that we can all be proud of.
We have a wonderful example of
different kinds of trees coexisting and contributing to our eco system
unanimously.
It is amazing that in a “friends”
chat group, we have to refrain from anything political or religious. Opinions
can cause massive rifts and boycotts even if they are rational discussions.
Everyone walks on egg shells. Truth is multipronged! There is no single root.
This is nothing but intolerance. The deep need of conversion also is perhaps
rooted in people feeling threatened by any kinds of different belief systems
and therefore, wanting clones to co-exist, to create a comfort zone for
insecure people.
Culturally, earlier, we supported
one code of conduct which everyone had to follow, and that body of principles
made us a strong and cohesive body of people. This had no bearing on the
religion people followed. It was a set of principles for a creation and
sustenance of human harmony.
We are now paying a high price for individual egoism. The “I am right” factor. Gone are the trends that brought and kept people together. It is all about “me and myself”. We see this seeping into group activities, too.
Basic respect for everyone, no matter how different they seem to be on the
surface would start the peace process.
I have a question.
Those who are judgmental and non-accepting of others … do you accept yourselves
?
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
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Tuesday, 4 August 2020
Environment
Today, we are riddled with double standards
wherever we turn. One set for us and another for others. Without any qualms!
“Do as you would like others do unto you”
could be a saying in Swahili for all that we know. It is a different world with
people courting completely new mindsets.
Complex minds and even dangerous minds, especially
if they are devoid of emotions and all the definitions have undergone a sea
change. There is really no choice but to accept them. And hope sensitivities
will be revived as a reaction to too much of a clinical approach to people,
reactions which could be given other tags, such as callous and unfeeling. A
legacy of a dominant and fragile ego perhaps and of a highly competitive
environment where gnawing desires and ambitions overlook the dying embers of
humaneness.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Speakingtree Blog: www.speakingtree.in/public/surekhakothari
Tuesday, 8 January 2019
Survival
A motivational, beautiful story I heard
recently. A man's donkey fell into a deep pit from where there was no way out.
The man was very sad and wanted to bury the donkey before it languished to its
death. So, he began pouring soil on the donkey. Each time he did that, the
donkey shook it off and stood up. The man kept doing this and the donkey kept
shaking every load off. The man did not realize that the pit was filling up and
soon, the donkey was able to walk out of the pit.
This is so close to life. People try to
bury you for various reasons but you need to have the courage and creativity of
the donkey and snake off any "loads" being poured over you. Develop
the survival instinct like the donkey. Otherwise, to get buried is the easiest
thing in the world.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Monday, 17 September 2018
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