Sunday, August 05, 2007

My Folks

Ever since we are born, do we not start differentiating between who’s ours & who’s not? As a kid, we know who is family & who is not. Then our world broadens, we go to School & College. After a while, we know who are “our” friends, family friends etc. To me, this differentiation is not bad; infact it lets me know the circumference of my loyalty circle. That’s another thing, you are either loyal to your people or you are not. There are no two ways about it; there’s nothing that can be taught about loyalty. Over the period of time, however I have realized that these folks; my folks, don’t have a face! Yeah they are faceless, but come with utter soul. As I grew older, I noticed my folks don’t have a skin color or nationality or religion either! At the end of the day, all I remember is that I care for my people & they care for me. We have had lunches together, stuck through tough times & are ready to challenge the tougher! We don’t come from any kind of powerhouses, but this whole idea of us standing together is our biggest strength. We laugh on the same jokes, like or hate the same movies & food. My point is not to sound like some pseudo secularist, but to actually realize how we get attached to people just because our frequencies match or we think alike. Life can be this simple if we want to keep it this way. Why is everybody fighting over religion, color of skin & geographical boundaries then?

Disclaimer: An ammendment to my previous thought, it's GOOD if we like anybody, importantly, it's OK if we don't like anybody and vice versa!