Our Humanity !

Our humanity will be fulfilled when we see strength in every form of weakness. We shall rise above beasts and predators when we see every foe as having the same nature; when we see every casual walker that we do not have the hope of meeting with on another casual walk as deserving of our love and show of kindness. We shall be truly human when we see the import of our potential action before it is unleashed. We shall be deserving of the nature of the God we profess when we wipe away every tear from the faces of those little ones we fail to share a grain of our freely given mercy. We shall be truly human when we project beyond the present and feel the hope we dash in others who may be leaning on us for succour and trusting us for safety. We shall be truly Christlike when we cease to ruffle filial bond and fan embers of discord on the bases of our personal uplift, material greed and power of domination. We can trust peace to seek permanent habitation with us when we dole out peace in the measure we personally crave; peace unto ourselves, our children and others who may not be related to us (homo homini lupus: man is a wolf unto man.) We shall be truly deserving of the tag of humanity when we see a brother in the subject of our advance fee fraud and a sister in the object of our ritual escapade or a daughter in the focus of our gun. We shall be truly human when we see our humanity as the same as that of the potential victim of our action above  the pile of stolen lucre and the collective wealth we have annexed. We shall be human when we know that the end beckons on both the rich and the poor and that the mercy we show or the seed of love we fail to sow may bloom to the threshold of our little unprotected ones when we are no more and the power we wield today fades away. We shall be human no matter the quantity...Olufemi Aduwo