Daily Meditation: Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Pieces of paper - the excessive importance they are given

05/04/2010

In the society we live in, not to know how to read and write is unthinkable. Even with cooking, it is assumed you know what is written on a tin of food, for example, and that you can also decipher a recipe in a book. Not to mention the complications for anyone who can't read the name of a street or underground station! But this doesn't mean that humanity could not have progressed without being able to write. Reading and writing may represent great advantages, but the importance given to pieces of paper also has many drawbacks: we rely on them alone, they are all that counts, and we are incapable of seeing beyond them. If a piece of paper says you are guilty even though you are innocent, no one will be able to see the innocence that's written all over you. They read the piece of paper, and you are blamed; they point the finger at you and put you in prison. Nowadays, human beings are nothing, and pieces of paper are all-powerful!