OUR DUTIES TO OUR WORLD

In very many occasions, pointing the finger to the other person seems to be the easiest thing to do either in delegating difficult tasks or in taking hard responsibilities. The other line is also always faster, however, being there for those who cannot do without it is everyone’s responsibility.

I was touched when I read what the CNN front page has to comment about the responses people are giving to the victims of Haiti earth quake thus ‘countries and aid groups large and small worked Thursday to help survivors in quake-ravaged Haiti in an international effort rivaling the response to the 2004 Asian tsunami’. I was touched because there is no other way to realize that we are one than by being there for each other.

However, the world, (you and I) is lacking in being there. We seem to react more when there is crisis than when situations could be handled. The case of Haiti could be understood because it is a natural disaster; but how about the issues of hunger, how about racism, how about intercultural emancipation, how about international politics and how about growing the world together by giving a focused helping hand without strings.

Is it really enough to send aid to people? Of course in a situation of absolute lack, what we need is immediate remedy but when that position is overtaken either by personal effort or mutual effort, something more is obvious. What the citizens of Haiti need now is immediate response in form of food, shelter, clothing and medication but in the nearest future when these needs may have been reached to a reasonable extent, they must obviously need something more. They will need that the world still helps them to stand on their feet again.

We have a duty by love and collective heart to learn to give even when there is nothing to give. The world is always ready to accept from us, a little piece of love, a slice of bread and even a mere response to call of distress. There is no way the maxims of global union could be attained if we see different from us as something else than different from us. It is impossible until we see our ability to help as a mere cosmotic privilege

I think the orderliness of the universe (universal harmony) is a typical example of what we are or rather, should be. Though the world has diversity of existents all share from the same nucleus, from the same centre. Either by adhesion or cohesion, all things are connected to this harmony and either directly or indirectly we are connected to each other’s aura.

Today it is the Haitians; tomorrow may be for another people.
We do not have to have them all before we can give just as we do not have to be so big and strong before we can be part of the world. This world is for all and all participate in its existence and sustenance. Similarly, we participate in the wellbeing of each other and until we learn this, the possibility of global village will remain a pipe dream.

Let us give to the people of Haiti and let us give love to one another for when we do so, we steadily bridge the valley that separates peoples and nations until we become a single unified whole.

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