Anyone remember this story from a while back about the 6 Year Old Afghan hardcore Messi fan?
It was quite an inspiring if instructive story. It is a very powerful story. The young man was from a small village in Afghan, but Geography could not effect a barrier for his love of football and his hero Lionel Messi.
Being in an old remote village as they were, a genuine Messi jersey was just not possible, but his older brother, having seen as adamantly as Murtaza had cried for the jersey did the next best thing and proffered a Messi jersey, crafted out of plastic bags. At some level, it is actually COOLER than the real jersey, for it strikingly drives home the level of passion of the young man with the sport and his hero Messi for that matter, and the old brother indeed acted like a big brother should, in helping out his younger sibling.
Innovation wananchi. You may not be able to get that Jersey, but you sure as hell can the plastic bags, and they can proffer just as much as, if not more satisfaction in realizing the end goal, and this very notion may be ported to realm of real life, in navigating the trials and tribulations, as life is sure to deal one, that there is always an alternative way to skin the cat, and the onus is on you to find that “swiss knife”.
Too bad the publicity also caught the archaic and vindictive lunatics, the Talibans, and they started sending threats in light of the publicity of Murtaza and his hero Messi. Its kinda like how women start to get quizzy anytime your head moves 5degrees in any one direction other than straight forward, or expressly towards her, notwithstanding the need to look right left right in the PedXings!
Religion sometimes brings out some good, but more so it is the opiate responsible for the very worst among human beings. The inherent dogmatism in religion, will perpetually guarantee friction. The worst synthesis was that of personification of the figures of wonderment, perhaps in our on images, an amendment that unleashes the most deadly of venom insofar as human relations.
If the flocks stuck to ethical and moral lessons that may be conveyed in fellowship minus the personification notion, rooted as it is in ancient superstitions, religion would struggle to gain its current unenviable position as the premier causative factor during the conduction of unnatural deaths amongst homo sapiens!