Unlearn your Identity

Our problems begin when we begin to have an identity. And an identity is a must, a name and number (Aadhar or SSN) in this much-populated world, to have a semblance of order.

But the problems I refer to are those to do with living our personal life itself. This name and sense of self-identity, so very important during a child's growth, is equally important to be unlearnt, as part of the final phase of educational life.

Because it is after this phase, that one steps out independently to the world outside. And applies whatever he / she's learnt. I wish if this final phase be to  instill in us the feeling that the world, including nature is something that's been handed over to us, by generations and centuries of living beings. It's something to be honored and protected. That our self-identity, which we held so preciously to make ourselves skilled in our chosen vocations for so long, is now to be unlearnt, so we can learn to apply our skills selflessly. 

And most importantly, so that we may consider every our element, living and non-living around us, as brethren, all children of the same Mother Nature.

Our self-identity is the hardest fortress we have created around us,..what to speak of biases, personal, religious and nationalistic ones...If only we accept that the person next to us is a child of the same creator, won't we be more open to accepting his for his personal choices (be it clothes, religion, food, even sexual orientation). For isn't that what true love is: One that pours out, not wants in return. You begin to be more accepting. Inter-religious or inter-race marriages won't matter.

People will be less inclined to be anti-social. When the whole world is your family, whom to hurt, and with what end...

Race and Class are quickly forgotten. Won't you want to distribute your wealth for the benefit of your family. 

Environment is safeguarded: You would try your best to protect and nurture the life around you, be it nature or species of animals and plants. The sense of exploitation will go away. You begin appreciating why our forefathers took permission from the Gods when they had to kill life to consume as food. The sense of greed disappears.

Alas that all this hasn't happened yet. And hope that it someday will!!