“..for dust you are and to dust you shall return.”
(The Holy Bible)
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All of a sudden, the loud horn of an old car shocked me. As I looked behind, a broken handle opened a door and a hand helped me to step inside. PAUSE. It was Adil and his dad !!
That day, it was not that torn and stitched school bag, neither that reeking smell of sardines from a bread nor a cheap badminton racket that made a difference, it was the values that Adil’s family instilled in him that primed and not all the differences we created. And that made him the most well-off person that I could ever have met.
His dad, who was driving the taxi, dropped me in Port Louis and I soon met my dad. We reached home safely thereafter.
Instating tolerance in our culture would make it possible for people to coexist peacefully in a fair society. To be tolerant means that we accept each other despite our differences without oppressing any single member of the society.
“The highest result of education is tolerance.”
My Key of Life (originally published as “Optimism”), 1926
As rightly said above by Helen Keller, the highest result of education is tolerance.
My Key takeaways from this experience although I didn’t live it:
- Children imitate their parents. Assuming that children will filter the negativities from everything when they are sponges is pure fallacy.
- Going through the lists of Om Swami Ji’s books, I made a list of which books I will study first. My mistake was to disregard the book on parenting. My sincere apologies Swami Ji, please forgive your child. I should not wait to be a parent, I might start cleansing my mind from the stereotypes now itself.
- Always teach compassion, but remember, we are living compassionately, not showing off compassion.
- Be gentle with your words. What might have been the aftermath of the rebukes on Adil’s psyche?
What are your thoughts?
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