The Foundations

My 5 year old bought new set of toy blocks. He wanted me to play with him. I was trying to make a tower of blocks by putting them over each other. When I was stacking them, if I wasn't getting the first few blocks right, I wasn't able to build a tall enough tower. When I kept the first few blocks carefully, I was able to build a taller tower of blocks.

While my son was jumping and running around me enjoying his new toy, this activity taught me a lesson. If the foundations about any belief in life have not been laid correctly, you will have a faulty building of mindset about that belief. I believe in modern day, a lot of hatred has been generated because someone has played their part in building those foundations wrong. Stereotyping people for race, religion, colour, gender are all wrong foundations which lead to terrible buildings of rotten mind sets. Branding all muslims as terrorists, portraying religion as obsolete and rotten, abusing and disrespecting women are some examples of laying wrong foundations in people's minds. Such wrong foundations lead to delusional beliefs perceived as facts leading to extremism and right wing behaviour.

It is so important to ensure not to let the negativity and hate thrive in our minds leading to flawed foundations, as once they develop, the whole building will be flawed and it will be incredibly difficult to rectify that flawed building.