LET’S CELEBRATE!
By Roman Ahsan [Feb 14, 2013]
We here at “TOGETHER WE RISE!” do believe in love,
compassion, mercy, care, forgiveness and tolerance. But we do not deem it
necessary to drown ourselves in events like Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day,
Father’s Day etc. By celebrating these events we are basically “limiting” our
God-gifted domains of love. Though we are full of faults ourselves and there is
good and bad in everyone regardless of faith, someone rightly retorted that how
ironic it is that the same people who leave their parents in old homes when
they need the most care (though there are many exceptions to this custom) would
like to make us believe that celebrating such events can make us more loving. Is
it not meaningful to keep a check on us as to which trends in the Western World
are really healthy for us to copy and practice rather than blind emulation of
everything?
Nature intends love to
reside deep inside in our hearts and for us to manifest it to all beings around
us. It is easy to express it to members of opposite gender on a single day than
to care for your parents on a continuous basis when people do not want them
around. And it should be kept in mind also that the poor people need our share
of love too through any form of help or guidance.
Life is a jigsaw puzzle;
let’s not complicate it further and define who we really are. It is time to keep
our head high and be proud to be Muslims and Pakistanis. And before everything,
let’s celebrate the lessons of
humanity as we primarily need to be good human beings (with our identity as
Muslims, the benchmark) to cast an influence in this world!
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