Once upon a time, there were two cities – one was global city, while other was polar city. Both of them had everything in common, only different was their destinies. Their destiny was decided by the people that lived there. In both the cities, there lived people from different race and religion. But still it happened that one city became prosperous, while other city eventually turned into a graveyard.
In global city, people had seen conflict before. They had seen death and destruction before. They thought they needed a change. They needed such a change that will bring peace and prosperity. Thought process started and when it starts, it always gives some direction – may be right or may wrong. Some people there thought that that it’s no point scratching the old wounds, they will only bleed. So they worked hard in every possible field, they could think about. Harder they worked, their needs increased. To meet those needs, the need for professionals rose. This forced others to follow them. It was a chain reaction. Eventually everyone was busy and their stomachs were no longer empty. They had no time to fight with each other. Leaders, who ruled the city, were the only people, who felt insecure. The leaders were held accountable for every decision they took. So the leaders worked hard and they competed with each other to perform better. This lead to the growth of the city and city became more and more prosperous.
In polar city, some people from every community felt insecure and threatened. They felt that people from other community will encroach in their territory, contaminate their religion and race. To make themselves secure, they spread the feeling of insecurity amongst the members of their community. They eventually became leaders of their community. Now they felt secure because now they had support of whole community to protect them. But the people of each community felt insecure and their leaders blamed their people and warned them about some ‘consequences’ that they will have to face , if they don’t wake up soon. One person can think, but mob doesn’t. The conflict started and the people “woke up”, only to sleep forever. They fought to preserve their culture, eventually they ended up spoiling the reputation of their culture. They killed people from other community. Blood flowed like water and those who left behind died due to hunger and poverty.
We, as citizens of the world are now left with one of these two choices. Technology has advanced. It has a capacity to save a life of dying person, but one button press can detonate the nuclear bomb that can turn living people into dead. Culture is not about how different we are and religion is not about how different our God is from others. We can become a global city, move forward on the path of progress. If we follow the path of polar city , whole world will be polarized in different directions and when they will meet , they will only fight. Choice is yours.