WE BELONG TOGETHER

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It is a great feeling to be with people. Many individuals prefer being in the company of friends whom they understand each other to greater extends. However, the people whom we surround ourselves with, always have a way to our day to day life. Their influence comes to us in both positive and negative bearings, but because it is happiness that matters, I find more heft in the positives rather than the negatives. I cannot imagine being in a society where persons exist in individualistic communities among themselves; people who consider their own affairs vivacious to the others.

It was not until when I come to experience the joy of being together, the warmth that comes with friendship, brotherhood that I show the meaning of togetherness. Belonging to each other is a possible experience but hard to find most often outside our homes. Survival in a community with a completely different setup from ones family is a challenge to many. A challenge which is possible to overcome if only one will recognises the beauty that comes with the presence of the other in whatever circumstance one maybe in.

Seeing the other as special and whose presence is as a gift from the creator, is the starting point of recognising the importance of togetherness.  It is through togetherness that we derive the meaning of our own lives as having the mystic power of Him who brought us into existence. The joys and sorrows we share as a people keep us going. In one’s low moment, he/she needs the other for consolation and in high moments still the presences of someone to share the joy which is very invigorating.

Friendship in any society is of great importance. It is unity that creates harmony and respect of each other. A community built in the spirit of love and togetherness lives in peace and happiness. Members in such a community experience that sense of belonging and of responsibility to one another. Living with concern of each other, love each and respect of one another establish a strong and firm community. Hence to have a potent community, we are entitled to work towards the building of a community/ society in the spirit of oneness.  For we all belong together.
By KUCHIO OKELLO EDWIN

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