Learning
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a House into a Home, a stranger into a friend.
What is Home?
Neither man nor woman is perfect or complete without the other. Thus, no marriage or family, no ward or stake is likely to reach its full potential until husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, men and women work together in unity of purpose, respecting and relying upon each other’s strengths.
From Home we learn a great sense of togetherness and team spirit which drives us to achieve even the seemingly impossible goals and history has been the witness of such human efforts. To say, alone we can do so little, but together we can do much more. And in the bargain, we feel happiness in togetherness.
Since time immemorial, human race tries to live together in groups, notwithstanding the fact that with the passage of time the human culture and civilization progressed with lot of developments in all spheres of life throughout the world in varying magnitudes. Why to talk of only human beings, for that matter, all creatures on this earth like to live together in one way or the other. You must have enjoyed seeing the herds of elephants roaming in the forest, honey bees’ super activity around the honeycomb, zebras and buffaloes daring to put up a winning fight against the lion or leopard. The other day I happen to see a poster showing a few horses running together and the caption of the poster was, “Togetherness is Happiness”. Rightly so, isn’t it? The famous milky way is what else than a mass of innumerable stars planted together in groups?
Right from our childhood, we learn to live in family, in villages and cities celebrating the festivals together, participating in games, getting education in schools/colleges/universities, working in different work places and thereby learn the great lesson of life to live like a social human being. We miss our kith and kin, friends so much and long for meeting them or at least taking to them, sharing our feelings of joy, sorrow and whatnot. The technological developments like transport, communication, mobile, internet, Facebook etc. has proved to be great enablers in this direction.
Whenever we set out for achieving something or have actually achieved something, we show “V” sign (for victory) to our well wishers, friends and supporters. But have you ever seen the cranes heading south for the winter, flying along in a “V” formation? It is really beautiful to see and inspiring to know the science and logic as to why they fly that way. As each crane flaps its wings, it creates an uplift for the bird immediately following. By flying in “V” formation, the whole flock adds at least 70% greater flying range than if each bird flew on its own.
Let us all try to do something, however small, individually and collectively that can make the world a better place to live together joyfully till eternity.
Learning from House: Live Together
