TRADITIONS AND CULTURES

BALANCE

Traditions and cultures that are fair to all sexes, all ages, all castes or positions bring about a balanced view of life. We need to see it through the eyes of both men and women, boy child and girl child, the employer and the employee, the leader and the follower, the preacher and the congregation, the teacher and the student. No tradition should belittle one in favour of the other. Both mother and father are responsible for the upkeep and upbringing of a child, both employer and employee are equally responsible for the economy, both leader and follower are responsible for the peace in a land, both preacher and congregation have equal responsibility for the morals and love within the family and nation as a whole, both teacher and student are equally responsible for education and to learn. Our traditions and cultures should include all views equally to be successful. Whenever one is oppressed in favour of another there comes unhappiness, oppression and retaliation, very often the silent type of retaliation......just look at the world at present.....all the uprising and rebellion due to favouritism, placing one above the other. There is so much chaos due to inequality causing all the violence, aggression and turmoil. Every living being has equal right to survive, strive and be happy and traditions and cultures should see to this as it also includes our faith and beliefs. There are many positions and jobs in life, many fancy titles, but each helps turn the wheels and are equally important and should receive the same respect. We all have hearts and emotions, we all have minds and thoughts.... We really are very similar in most ways and shouldn't be taught otherwise......

Monica Maartens ©Copyright

10 Jan 2018

Tomorrow...accepting or rejecting traditions....