Version imprimableTo you, my dearest sister and brother in humanity,
At the end of the year, I think of those of you on this earth who have faced fear. Perhaps it is fear of death. Or maybe it is fear of war. Or even fear of the futuure.
But perhaps it is the fear of the other which today consumes our hearts and our minds. We are in a world of global communication but we talk less and less to each other, we listen very little and we shut ourselves away in our intellectual, cultural or religious ghettos. Those fears, you know, make me fear for our common future.
What are you doing, you, to relieve those fears ? What are you doing to step outside of your mental ghetto ? How many women and men from a different culture or religion have you shared time with or worked with during the last week or even during this last year ?
If we speak of respect and openness but remain isolated in our virtual prisons, we will not change our daily lives, our society or the world. We need to start with ourselves. We need to free ourselves from the prisons of our fears and try to understand more about people from other religions and gain mutual trust and understanding.
To do this, you don’t need money or a university degree. You just need good will, commitment and some courage to take the risk to go and meet the unusual. To share moments with people from another culture, from another religion.
And it becomes a beautiful mirror, you know, when you learn that you have yourself multiple identities and that humility is your dignity.
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