Public issues

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I read somewhere "Public issues will knock on your private door sooner or later" This quote really knocked me off my feet and I sat with this quote for a week... thinking, contemplating really trying to understand it.

I used to completely shut down news, politics etc and labeled it 'negative' claiming that I did not want anything negative in my life but what is so negative about knowing what is happening in the world! It becomes negative only when you react with anger, frustration and all kinds of fear. I hear this all the time Think Positive Think Positive. People are like I only want positive stuff in my life, so I don't want any horrible news and believe me I used to be that person. But there is nothing positive about ignoring the suffering of another being. Positivity is about rejoicing on the fact that we can do something about it.  I live on this planet called earth and everything that is happening on the planet earth is my(our) responsibility on a small or larger scale!

I know with all that is happening at the moment people are bound to make more judgments, people are bound to react with anger and fear. I am a big believer of  One Love, One Heart, let's get together and feel alright Bob Marley kind of Love. So, I ask you not to be judgemental, I challenge you to act with Love anywhere possible and I mean today and wherever you are cause  I also read somewhere " if everyone sweeps their front door, the world will be clean one day"

Photography by Smriti Rai
Location: Oxford
Protest at Trump travel ban 30/01/2017








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