Today, the international community marks the 2017 World Humanitarian Day. Credit:ajala.ng This is a day set aside by the United Nations to reflect on our commitments toward helping others especially those whose vulnerability and helplessness call out for support and encouragement. World's Humanitarian Day is all about moving out of ourselves and meeting the needs of the next person, that person who is in genuine need. It is, even as much as we can remain within ourselves, about thinking of the other person; what we can do and are doing to impact upon them. World Humanitarian Day is about others, it is about selflessness. Our gifts, talents and resources must be seen to have some impacts in the lives of others. Critically, our resources should be used for the service of others. This is the reflection that today brings and the expression it excites. In the words of the great civil rights activist, Martin Luther King Jr, the most persistent and urgent question is "Wh...
The first appreciation to which affection reveals kick starts the journey of any would-be lasting relationship. It doesn't just end in the two expressing a likeability that's primarily emotional. As important as the likeability of an emotional attraction creates, such must go down well to demand an understanding that's chiefly worked out by the mind's appreciation. The two individuals who suddenly have become emotionally wrapped up must do well to pass the next stage of ''inter-understanding'' -understanding who is and what's in the other- if indeed their camaraderie is something to take far and yonder. Thus the relationship must be sketched in the bricks rationality and coated with the nice and exciting colours of affection. Contrary to a flings faultily termed relationships nowadays that has no bearing, no knowledge and understanding of what their engagement is other than the restricted idea of the moment as is the rampant cases, true relationshi...
What are your values? And are these values promoting your ultimate belief, affecting others and creating positive influence? Just like I said earlier, your values are the creations of your beliefs; they are developed from the kind of belief system you have come to adopt and integrate and they are chiefly manifested by your actions and reactions. Your sense of desire and emotional attachments, which are laid by the things you have been exposed to and which have deeply sunk into subconsciousness, are manifested in the things you value. They are what keeps you unsatisfied, begging and worried, at least until you meet them. Therefore, it comes to be that if you happen to be, the one that believe in liberalism, your actions-by the very nature of how you treat people with their diverse, even antagonistic views, would portray your values in allowing people to air their views and live their choices, regardless of your perception. Your expression of your desire to charity could be...
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