Learn From Animals… They’re Great Teachers!

I’m very grateful to the good people I’ve met who helped during the period from when I met Jacki in the streets of Yerevan until her arrival to Boston. I’m thankful to every single person who loved, cared and asked about Jacki. Forgive me if your name is not mentioned in my text as I’m not able to remember everyone.

There are a lot of good people in this world but what makes a difference is the intention and the purpose that drives the actions and commitments.

Acts of kindness shouldn’t happen because of new trends and slogans like #KindIsTheNewCool , being kind requires an understanding of another Being’s needs, and needs are different than wants. Kindness is definitely not a new marketing strategy for companies, organizations, or other entities and even individuals to use for personal and/or financial gains.

So if you want to help, or someone asked for your help, help wholeheartedly. And if you can’t provide help, speak wholeheartedly. Half-half solutions don’t work. Know what you can/can’t do, be clear about it and act from there, as you can’t decide what works better for the people around you, until you talk to them clearly.

The following quote by the Armenian poet Yeghishe Charents was widely spread between Armenians everywhere after the recent Artsakh-Azerbaijan war:

“Oh, Armenian people, your only salvation lies in the power of your unity.” 

I wonder if anyone thought about the meaning of this sentence and specifically the #meaning of the word “unity” rather than taking it for its literal general linguistic meaning. Unity is not only to be considered in times of conflict and difficulty, unity should be the state of the people in all action, time, and place. Thanks to Aristotle’s thoughts and writings. #AristotelianUnities

Other meanings of “unity” from Oxford Dictionary:

• The state of being in agreement and working together; the state of being joined together to form one unit.

• A single thing that may consist of a number of different parts, i.e. If society is to exist as a unity, its members must have shared values.

So if you truly want to be united and help each other, learn to accept each other with all your differences, ways and actions, and you can only reach to that point by listening and talking to each other, and not by talking on each other or against each other and eventually forming parties to cause more divisions.

Of course the same thing goes to all the people in the world. If you want to unite and make the world a better place, learn to accept each other.

“If you have nationalism and you say that eventually there will be the brotherhood of Man, in the interval there are wars, there are hatred, there is misery, there is all this appalling division between man and man; therefore, time is creating disorder.” .- Jiddu Krishnamurti

LEARN FROM ANIMALS, THEY’RE GREAT TEACHERS!