I HAVE A DREAM DAT 1DAY …
…we will build a community of love …… each one of us wud work for love ….
The $ currency wud be substituted with love currency ….when we work for a client ….it wud be a labor of love … and we wud be paid by love …. Love cannot be quantified…….i wud not charge u for the service rendered …… I wud come back to you ….. when I need your help .. I wud not ask for more than I need for the moment … dat wud be agreed ..
(the product / service generated wud be World class …. bcoz it has been crafted by love)
In dis community of love …there wud be:
No jealousy … no envy ……. Bcoz all dat u own u wud lovingly share with me …
No one in this community wud starve … bcoz if I don’t have food on my table today …… I wud walk into your home …. And u wud gimme dinner …
No dowry ….
No unhappy widows …..
No neglected aged folks …… if you are in the US of A and your parents are here
…. They wud be a part of my family too …..
No one wud be unloved …. If I have a prob dat is worrying me … I wud not hesitate to knock on your door …
U might say dat I m a dreamer ….
But I m not the only1 …… John Lennon had dis dream ……along with Martin Luther King …….and Mahatma Gandhi …..when he proclaimed dat ….. u do not own your possessions …. Ur just a trustee …
Dis community of love has been in existence 4 a very long time in India …. It is the joint family system ….where after marriage your children still live under the same roof …..the earnings of the family are pooled together ….and the material and emotional needs are provided by the head of the family … but under the western influence … it is breaking up …into nuclear families …. So now we purchase more cars, TV’s, fridges, AC’s …. We now have more material things …. But less and less of Love … more stressful living … and more suicides …..
Nafissa wud not have hanged herself ….if she lived in dis community of love ….
Let us go back to our roots ….. and discard the western life style …and once again build a community of love ….. in the tradition of the joint family system ….. and one day …… this community wud encompass the whole world …….
AMEN
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Saby I agree on the 'community of love' aspect of your post. But I totally disagree on your thoughts towards the Western-Influence. Man, don't forget that more unhappy widows and dowry system only exist in the Indian culture!! And the aged are not in any way neglected in Western countries, in fact they are given the best of care! I understand that the families are not all that close-knit in the Western system, but it is not because they don't love each other. Take a look at the old parents in an Indian home - most of the time they get humiliated by the in-laws but the son or the daughter choose to keep them at home for the culture's sake - what good is that? Whereas in the white man's land they put their parents in an Aged home because they simply don't want to neglect them both physically and psychologically - that's all. Although I will never put my mum in an aged home, who knows how we would feel at different circumstances and different times?
Saby we need TVs, fridges and computers..if not for the PC we would never have met and you would never have been able to create a blog...would you have preferred that? LOL I hope your answer aint YES :) The Westerners are not to be blamed for our mistakes. Ijn fact Mahatma Gandhi stated that the Indian culture has alot of bad traits as much as it has alot of good ones. We have to pick carefully from what is laid on the tray of life...whether it is from the Western culture or Eastern culture, we need to pick the best traits and live with a balance. It is not because of any particular culture that this whole world is becoming love-less...it is in the individual thinking.
And don't forget that Nafisa was in love with an Indian man...not a white man :)
Keshi.
damn u if u think westernisation is bad. joint families are a hellove mess. fights, backbitin, etc. etc. ihated e cousins for all that time we stayed together. now that we still are close, not together there undyin support an love. u lived a nuclear family i guess thats y u sayin this. damn u again. open ur eyes, love is what they say-a bitch. she kills if taken on an overdose. personal freedom, now thats nother thing a joint family denies.
come on saby, better get used to it. the crude an rude are here to stay. love increases wit distance neways.
hell why do i bother? im gonna die alone neways...
Love’labor lost
Hey Kesh
I took a lotta pains to rite serious stuff 4u..
Expected a hugg or 2… all I got was criticism..
Read these quotes:
‘Old folks are dying not 4 want of medicare but 4 want of love’
-Mother Theresa
‘Life has an expiry date’
-Saby
love me now..2 morrow may be 2 late
all we have is 2 day
2 morrow is only INSHA ALLAH
read janice’s poignant post ..
not all ppl die of old age….
U can be hit by a truck….
Don’t waste precious moments…
Hey keshi
ur beautiful.... u read Gandhi-ji well....
these are his exact words.....
'Why should we be blotting sheets of Western civilization ?
i want the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. ......
but i refuse to be blown off my feet by any.'
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