"When God said ‘Love your enemies’, I think he meant don’t kill them….."

I saw the statement on a T-shirt while walking with more than seven hundred strangers on the Massachusetts Avenue in Washington DC for the same cause ‘9/11 Unity Walk’. Coincidentally it was post serial bomb blasts in Delhi. I thought this strapline certainly convey a message to the world therefore put the same as closing lines in my personal e-mail id. Very strangely I started receiving mix reactions from my friends, it seemed strange in the beginning then I remembered the classroom lesson in my early childhood days, “A Glass is half full or half empty, it depends on us how we perceive it”.

Coincidences one after other provoked me to ponder on this issue. I received an e-mail from a very dear friend with pictures of beautiful locations with the captions of “Beautiful Kashmir under Pakistan”. I just asked, “Does it really matter if those heavenly locations are under Pakistan or India or anywhere in this earth?” I have a similar question for you my dear reader, “Does it matter to you so much? And/ does it matter to anyone who are the real victim of economic crisis or lose their loved once on a bright sunny day to a sudden bomb blast in a public transport?”

“Have we not suffered enough loss already due to our ignorance? Can’t we, at least the Generation X be the catalyst of building the bridge”- I was uttering the same in myself and the answers is ‘YES, We can’. It was one of the best days of my life when I saw the priests of all significant religions standing on the same platform- Christian, Jew, Hindu, Muslim, Zoroastrian, Bahai, Buddhist and many more along with the people from all different culture, countries, faiths with the same hope in their bright eyes, “We need Peace, Love and Care to live our lives which God give us”. I felt goose bumps when I saw a Hindu priest blown a ‘Shankh’ on the veranda of the Masjid during the holy days of Ramadan and Imam Majid said, “All our holy books say the same, ‘God is consistent’, in whatever way you want to call him, He is CONSISTENT”….

It’s very much doable, friends! Let’s try not to forget to be ‘Human’ first in the race of being something in our lives. Its up to you now to decide if the glass is half full or half empty!