TOPIC ??

           It is such a hard task to find a topic to write about, something you can type for (at least!) a page or so for people to read. Some people call this problem ‘writers’ block, where writers and authors somehow have mental block and unable to write like always do. Well, those are problems experienced by famous book authors or novel writers, but for us? Amateur writers who just love to write and type away, playing with words, and indulged in language, what is it called?

            Why is it so hard to find an interesting topic to write or talk about? We are living in a colourful and beautiful world, filled with creative minds and wonderful people. Just a look away from your state of the art gadgets on your hands or laps and you will see that there is so much to see. So much to enjoy, so much to give, so much to receive.

I’m talking nonsense but who cares?

Allah fills our lives with love, food, shelter, functional body and so much more. So much to be grateful about. Every time we eat do we even think of other people that are living in poverty? Who have no food to eat but subsidised dusty bread? Who have no clothes to wear but dirty worn up sweaters? Be thankful my friends. And foes. And everyone else. Because when we are thankful, Allah the Almighty, the One who sustains, will add more of our blessings.

Recently I read an interesting topic about multicultural education. A concept teachers have to mind about their students’ diversity. In a class of varied backgrounds (unrelated to race or skin colour), teachers must diversify methods of teaching to accommodate the various pupils. Pupils and students are humans (duh!) And as humans, they have different identities, ways of conversing, different faiths, and most importantly in a classroom, different ways of understanding an information given to them in a particular time.

So?

If in a small classroom, we can be full of variety, diversity, mix and multiplicity (example of redundancy?), we have to accept the fact that in this gigantic earth, lots of kinds of people are living in it. People with all kinds of attitudes, problems, emotions, and lots more, that makes us as humans. And as humans, we have to UNDERSTAND! That not everyone had the same life as we had, experienced the same laughter and sadness that we have been through.

"Unity in Diversity"

So every time someone makes us feel bad, sad, angry or mad, keep calm and have patience. Please. Do not add more hatred or loathing in this world. There’s too much of it right now. Instead, spread peace.

“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding”

-Albert Einstein-

And happiness. And prosperity. And Islam is prosperity. Islam teaches us patience and the act of kindness to every creature we encounter.

Wallahua’alam. Jazakumullahu khairan kabiran kathiran.

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