Of the many perversions prevalent in our society, the glamourisation of sensationalism is also one. It has now become ‘cool’ to experience and foster stress , anxiety, dissent ( without due cause) to exclude and to be different. We actually revel( consciously or sub-consciously) in a weird sense of thrill by creating anger, anxiety, fear and difference in others. To be in agreement or to be similar is politically and socially incorrect. A blow to one’s individuality. To become one has been seemingly made difficult. I am reminded of a beautiful approach I once read in a book by Tariq Ramadan and cannot help but quote that: “The point I am making is that we cannot go on standing at our windows. Off we go, we said, along the paths of the heart, the mind and the imaginary! The horizon ahead of us offers us a choice between two paths: we can go from window to window, from one philosophy to another and from one religion to another, and try to unde...
"They tried to bury us they did not know we were seeds"