Life's Lessons - Joseph Mattappally
This is a joke: a worldwide survey was conducted and the only question asked was: ‘Would you please give your honest opinion about the solution to the food shortage in the rest of the world?’ The survey was not a huge failure because, in Africa they didn't know what ‘food’ meant; in Eastern Europe they didn't know what ‘honest’ meant; in Western Europe they didn't know what ‘shortage’ meant; in China they didn't know what ‘opinion; meant; in the Middle East they didn't know what ‘solution’ meant; in South America they didn't know what ‘please’ meant; and in the USA they didn't know what ‘the rest of the world’ meant. This is about people living in the same world about which the media says is ‘a global village’. Religions say that there is sharing all over and Governments claim that they meet out the best of welfare beyond all considerations.
Whatever, there are people all over the world saying that the entire humanity is one; even atheists ask why this difference because temple is a six letter word, church is a six letter word, mosque is also a six letter word. Further, Vedas is a five letter word, Bible is a five letter word and Quran is also a five letter word. To be precise, all are of the opinion that there should not have been any understanding differences among races and cultures, but what actually happens is ever widening gaps between people of all groups. Why this indifference? Once death is said to have asked life, ‘why does people love you and hate me. Life is said to have answered that ‘Life is a beautiful lie and death is a painful truth’. Are all the discourses and claims beautiful lies? My assumption is that it is because people are trying to develop relations in life rather than maintaining life in relations.
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