We all are the product of the challenges around us and the environment in which we live that perpetuates love, hates, war and all other intolerant occurrences. No one to blame as this unfortunately is a genetic enigma we all need to change. Our challenge is to practice good time for change to attempt generosity, compassion, benevolence & mindfulness if we’ve to live together as a peaceful society.
“I want to suggest some of
the things that should begin your life’s blueprint. Number one in your life’s
blueprint should be a deep belief in your own dignity, your worth and your own
somebodyness. Don’t allow anybody to make
you feel that you’re nobody. Always feel that you count. Always feel that
you have worth and always feel that your life has ultimate significance.
Secondly, in your life's blueprint you must have as the basic principle the
determination to achieve excellence in your various fields of endeavor. You’re
going to be deciding as the days, as the years unfold what you will do in life
— what your life’s work will be. Set out to do it well.” –Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr.
There are so many inspiring speeches of King that cause you tingling, goosebumps … or whatever you want to call it, and emotionally rousing you to tears.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr’s Last Speech: I’ve been to the Mountaintop:
Today,
MLK’s inspiring and encouraging speech legacies that ever existed serves multiple
purposes in our lifetime. Principally, it honors
the total legacy of Dr. King, focusing on the issue
of civil rights, highlighting the use of nonviolence to promote change, calling
people into public services and humanity to embrace and live with one another
without preconditions.
“The question is
not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. Will
we be extremists for hate or for love?” –Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Wow!!
On February 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered
his last sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church.
“If you want to be important, that’s wonderful. If you
want to be great, that’s wonderful. But recognize that he who is greatest among
you shall be your servant. That’s your new definition of greatness; it means
that everybody can be great because everybody can serve. You don’t have to know
about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don’t have to know the second law of
thermodynamics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated
by love...” –MLK
Unfortunately, the broadminded civil rights leader and
icon, King was assassinated in Memphis on the 4th of April 1968. He
was shot on the hotel balcony and died soon after in a nearby hospital.
Today, because
of him and all those who made the difference before us and those who are making
the change for a better society now, we’re able to live side by side even
though the road to change is still far away from reaching “The mountain top”.
There are/were
also so many diligent anti-apartheid activists and social advocates around the
world who powerfully struggled to fight for egalitarianism passionately, with
their partners, and some spent most of their lives in prison. Hopefully, there
are some centurions who made it thus far, still living with all those unrepentant
events and somehow seeing few changes and always remembering those who no
longer with us. Also some of you and I know who they’re, I remain grateful to
all of them and decline to name because dreading that I might miss out naming
all of them. It’s a morally acceptable observation to mention and honor their challenging
perseverance and sacrifices before we all pass away without doing anything.
They say better
late than never, it’s now time we draw a line under the differences of the past
and work together to build consensus around a proposal to change everything
& anything habitual & traditional or outdated.
I for one want
to start appreciating the brilliant living former US President, Barack Obama,
for his inspirational & moving speeches during his candidacy and Presidency
and still sharing his thoughts with us effortlessly with the “wife of his life”
the former motivating first lady, Michelle Obama.
Knowledge isn’t
generally the driver of behavior. We often don’t do what we should do because
of genetic predisposition, inattention, apathy, avoidance, fear of ostracism, racism,
personality, being too busy, confronting an unsupportive environment, a
negative attitude or habit or routine without being labelled a pushover.
What we believe individually and collectively, whether good or bad,
right or wrong, true or false, will be determined by our creed, values, beliefs
and principles that will shape the final outcome.
In this modern day, it’s time to know the
truthfulness of anything before boarding on, like the bygone era. Although, the
social gathering for common pursuit is its foremost purpose, like all religions
need not to cajole and hypnotize individual adoring the religion beliefs on to
anybody to follow suit anymore.
“We only live once”. Therefore, Time For Change
Society’s affirmative standpoint is appreciating while people are here with us
and saving lives than building up weapons of mass destructions. Now we live in
the new age where as we know we’ve already been through lots of wars and tragedies,
regrettably, we’ve never learned from our-loses and still continue to summon up
the anniversaries, recognitions and appreciations every year for those departed
loved ones and that we passionately follow those who have dedicated their times
and given their lives powerlessly as they were willing to fulfill their lifetime
commitments.
In addition to causes by natural disasters,
countries that are causing war of destructions or the nations causing
devastations and affecting citizens should be liable for complete assistance to
replace the property and all the possessions lost including ransoms for the
lives also lost during disasters with wars that are not called for.
In this new age, the world must be tolerant,
empathetic and learn to live together rather than spend so much tax payers’
money to buy arms and rockets, to send to the universe to find another planet
only to destroy, when we can’t even live together here on our planet. Is that
making sense, maybe not? The world doesn’t have captivating and inspiring
leaders at this chaotic time, let alone deliver peace and serenity to their own countries.
The biggest trust being gone astray is what the
United Nations League, the World’s Court and the International Law firms are doing,
realistically? When the world’s nations violate and refuse to take peaceful
orders from them and incessantly killing innocent people and perpetrate
barrages of attacks causing irreplaceable destructions on the downtrodden in our
world where no one will live forever.
In all honesty, any living being is a precious thing
and will never be born again and must not be destroyed. Nevertheless, all
beings are doing what, when, where, which, how… they know and have been thru
those difficult practices genetically and duplicate them over and over to do it
as their surviving chores again & again. No one deserves to be punished
unjustly and die heartlessly for serving animals, humanity and their own country.
We live in a contemporary age & time of
ingenuity and compassion not to be puffed up by hostility, bitterness and
annihilating insolence as we’re all currently observing the genocides &
livelihood destructions happening daily before our eyes, heart-wrenchingly, in
the Middle East, in the East and basically all around the World that some of us
we don’t hear about.
In all honesty, what we are trying to reflect is also
the recognition and appreciation of the deceased persons should be celebrated
while they are alive not after they are gone, but we can’t help our emotional
state to inject how we feel the current situations in the world we all live in.
My final morality: I didn’t want to make these
comments but rather than carry it in my head as long as I live, would like to
get it out, as always, in
order
to give emphasis to all of us, families, relatives and you not to cry your
heart out when one dies, if you’ve not been recognizing, appreciating,
respecting, admiring…them for everything they were and have done while they
were associated with you in everyway
and doing everything for/with you when they were living in the pink. Hello,
this is the real candidness that should be acknowledged by everyone who has
lived in the bygone era to have Braveheart
to change in this modern era.
To stand for the
truth, what is good and right is the hardest choice of all because they require
moral clarity and courageous acts of conscience. One must have fundamental
convictions and moral principles to speak the truth and to do good and the
right thing and in so doing define the moment instead of being defined by it
& all other lingering prejudices.
We all have our
own unique cultural predispositions while growing up in different social and
educational upbringings that may not gratify everyone. Well, time to change our
rusty mindset to capitulate!
“I have a dream that my four little children will
one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content
of their character.” –Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Part of I Have a Dream speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr:
In the face of
truth or evil, the question in our morality is always a clear one. We can
choose to be silent; we can choose to be defenders and accomplices of truth or
evil, we can choose to blindfold ourselves in the face of truth or evil or get
in the faces of truth or evil doers or we have a choice to tell the truth or
evil, condone it or openly accept it. For those who believe
in religions must also know and believe in the power of choices and allow
others to practice generously without obligation of their own ethics on others,
this day in age.
Remember, we may not have the prestige of celebrities,
the power of Pope or all other academic luminaries, but our differences of
opinions and stories are unique and equally valued, effective and say something
no one has expressed before. That must be accepted and appreciated
unconditionally. Also thumbs up and hats off to those for being resilient to
care, communicate, appreciate, validate and share to disseminate what will be
pivotal information for everyone and also send sincere messages to those retreated
coyly pals to absorb all and recover as much as they can and put out their
valued side of stories regardless of the significances.
Let’s all not take sides or condone it, but stand up to the problem.
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