Today is All Souls Day, right? and i am expected to be prayerful and go to church and visit the grave and all that.
On this day religionists tell us what to do and we become full of religious fever but it is a one day celebration of our ancestors. It happens once a year to remind us we have ancestors and did not fall off the shelf - just like that? Sometimes we are controlled by religionists and at other times by politicians and society at large. What a joke! We are told how great someone is and how we should support him by a government which is elected every four or five years. And then a new government arrives which chooses a new hero who we are told again is the true hero and not the other - and we need to celebrate him! Yes, him more often than not! A man even after raping a woman is worth much more and the woman has to compete with none other than a cow? And, there are a lot of one day celebrations: Father’s Day, Mother’s Day, Valentine’s Day, and the lists is long. What is short is this: do as you are told! Is this the freedom of expression we talk and take great pride in as members of society? Is our freedom of expression an illusion?