So, my dear friends do not feel afraid to fall in love with yourself.
By Izaal Beebeejaun
Sookdeo Bissoondoyal State College
Lower Six T1
Understanding with empathy
All of us can understand with empathy. What does this mean? Well emphasize with somebody means imagining oneself to be another person, sharing his or her feelings, In other words putting oneself in another person’s shoes. It is indeed necessary to understand one with empathy, be it a stranger or someone of your own family, especially your parents.
Do you think it is difficult to understand with empathy? Not at all, your own blood should emphasize with you and vice versa. This is the best example of love in a family. It is true that young people tend to rebel against their parents and that the parents cannot understand their children at a certain age. You as the young ones should understand your family with empathy. Put yourself in the place of your parents, would you like to feel hurt? Certainly not and I’ll say it again that’s the best proof of love in a family.
As you have just seen the sketch presented by my friends, some of you may have laughed, others saw it as a tragic incident or perhaps you took it as a mere performance of good actors. A father neglected his son, having no time for him at all and above all did not place himself in his son’s place, thus did not understand him with empathy. A young boy became an alcohol addict and finally committed an irreversible act, a suicide. This shows that lack of empathy could have disastrous consequences.
Hence we should all try to understand with empathy, that is the biggest show of love for one’s family.
Thank you for your kind attention.
By Mehul Sharma Ghansam
Sookdeo Bissoondoyal State College
Lower Six T1
Openness
Openness in its broadest sense means freedom in different fields. Since decades, the lack of communication between parents and their offspring has been affecting the parent – child relationship. In order to get rid of this orthodox way of living, we have inherited a western culture which is Openness.
With Openness, children are able to discuss topics which were before taboo and it creates a better understanding between the parent and the child. The best example of Openness in the Mauritian society is that children are free to choose their subjects in which they want to specialize after.
Though, we live in a materialistic world, the “money-solves-all” mentality is insufficient to counter problems such as youth decline, family breakdown, drugs and AIDS. Thus it is better to open the world to the adolescents as they are the future of Mauritius.
“Unity leads to peace and peace bring progress”
Thank you for your kind attention.
By Mehul Sharma Ghansam
Sookdeo Bissoondoyal State College
Lower Six T1
Sharing, Giving and Receiving
We, human beings have feelings which we need to share. It is better to live in a society whereby everybody shares their feelings.
Love is the desire to share or the act of sharing. Special love is a special affection for someone or something, a feeling or emotion.
Anything, we share is love. We can share time, goals, problems, activities. Anything we share with another, we are expressing love.
Encouragement is one of the main forces of a family. Every member supports each other in moments of difficulty. For example, if someone in the family is taking part in an important examination, all the family members would encourage, give him moral support and help him the way the could.
If ever someone in the family is facing financial problem, every members would contribute to help the individual to overcome his problems. In the Mauritian society, the blessing of elders is very important in the success of someone.
“Dignity is a self love,
Friendship is a simple love,
But family can be a lifetime of love.”
Thank you.
By Nadhir Pondhor
Sookdeo Bissoondoyal State College
Lower Six S1
Listening without judgment
The sketch that was just been performed on stage by my friends shows you one of the consequences that can arise due to listening without judgment. There are many more consequences that you can imagine but I can tell you that they are all disastrous. Misunderstanding is a major factor which is the origin of fights in families. A person young or old must always be taken seriously when relating his problems. It is not always necessary that a younger person is always at fault. An older person may also be at fault. In many families, if a person is older than all the family members it means that he is always right. Why is this so? Is he not human? Every human make mistakes in life. “To err is human, to forgive is humane.”
This does not happen only in films but also in the actual life. I myself have a relative who has started smoking just because of his own problems. One day I asked him why he has started smoking. He told me that when his business was not working well he had no one to entrust himself and then started to smoke and as you all know “once pop up can’t stop” now he is unable to quit smoking by himself. So just imagine that you go and tell your parents about your problems and they do not listen to you or make you the culprit without knowing the whole problem. What would be your reaction? Won’t you react in the same way as these persons? Naturally this will discourage you even more.
By Nadhir Pondhor
Sookdeo Bissoondoyal State College
Lower Six S1
Thinking positively
Thinking plays a very important role in our everyday life. Every action is accompanied by a thought. There are two main ways of thinking; Thinking positively and thinking negatively. Frankly speaking thinking positively is much better for yourself and your surroundings.
Any negative thought can have terrible consequences and this is one of the factors that prevent national unity. Jealousy is an imperfection that man has a role to play in the creation of negative thinking. For example a person can see his wife talking with a stranger. If the man thinks negatively about it, then consequences like fighting may lead to divorce; now if the couple has children just imagine through which trauma they would be going and what the catastrophe would be. But if instead the man would have thought positively, then there would have been lesser chance of having problems as he would have trusted his wife. Thinking positively shows that there is a mutual respect between two people.
Another example is the interaction between the parent and their children. Many parents are against the idea of their son or daughter befriending a person of different sex. This can be at time very annoying to the child. The parents must think of it in a positive manner. If they know that they can trust their child enough and that the latter will not commit any mistake that will make either the child or the parent regret the problem of negative thinking will not arise at all. If instead the parent has positive thinking of his son or daughter, the latter will never try to deceive the parent.
These two vivid examples show you how bring along love and peace in a family. As you can see, lack of trust in a family destroys its peace and there will never be peace in the family. So trust in a family is a very important factor and this will allow have national unity in the family. All relation is based on trust. It is very important to trust your partner, son or whatever it may be as it will allow to create a better relation.
Thank you.
