Giving and taking

One of the most happy moments in our daily living is when we receive a nod, a smile, gesture that say mmhhh inside your heart.What I love about the most popular Zulu greeting (Hello) "Sawubona" that directly translated to: " I can see you" and you answer the same " I see you too" This alone makes a different in many ways.  Then I started touring the world and got to be introduced to many cultures and different lifestyles that does not promote the normal greeting of human kind. In Germany you only see that kind of humanity when people think they are dying, at the doctors room or hospital. That would be the only exception to greet you then otherwise " no, I mind my business, please mind yours too." What cracks me up is when a phone , handy rings.... all heads turn to you as if you are crazy or you just killed someone. I am so used in communication of all kind, especially when I have to be sitting next to you in the bus taxi or train I have to greet you. The western world think that it is not polite to talk to a stranger. Well this is what Africans at large do. We greet you, we smile at you, we shake hands. It does not matter I know you or not, I have to acknowledge your presence and make sure you do also. I see humanity is dieing.
Most people love to get smiles and these kind of gestures but they expect to get before they give one. The thing is about a day, how you treat it, when you react. These are the minor things we forget. We set standards of what kind of people we greet. And for those we need to be greeted by. We even make rules of age restrictions,  who is to greet first and last if not at all. This is the kind of attitude that kills humanity and intentions of a greeting. Who are we to judge people by the way they greet and and receive a notion of acknowledgement.  Life in general has rule of giving and taking, not the other way around. By giving first and not expecting anything in return, you are opening a gate in your life that is full of happy moment and popularity. Networking is a key of gaining contacts, that would not work if you do not start by giving first. Some are lucky, they have a privilege of enjoying the  fame and wealth. Still it does not change the fact that they have to give also. Things we have in life should not be a stumbling block in our lives, hindering us from humanity and way to a bright and smiley day.

If you care to understand people, first understand yourself, make them understand you. I love you all for reading my blogg. As a promise, I am not going to quit until I can not write anymore. feel free to say something to show that you are reading.