Inspiration

I was inspired by a brief encounter  with a couple, a tall slim and good looking boy presumably European and an Asian girl, who had been waiting on a queue in a restaurant in London. The way they looked in confidence, the way they slightly held their arms in intimacy truly taught me that any one is first an individual human. It encourages me now, a year later, to see more easily the goodness in D. beyond race, nationality, gender, status and the old heavy shadows of inner and society convictions. In a word encourages me to care more.

The courage of young Tom, my colleague, in bringing her girl friend in our office and introducing her in confidence and without smiling, encourages me to be honest with myself and do a similar thing, in spite of my natural secretiveness, inner hindrance and the cultural background.

The images that inspires us through our life to overcome hardship, dishonesty, the conflicts between our own needs, believes and dreams and that of society, do not necessarily have to be the big images of our time, men who have done big things. These seemingly trivial events can inspire us to make our way in stride towards a truthful and a better life for ourselves and for our race to survive.