The cry or smile of the human baby has no ethnic, racial or social tag; babies automatically recognize heartbeat by instinct, being the rhythm of the environment that brought them to physical life on earth. The beat symbolizes the primary ambience in that journey. As part of the socializing process, it gets to recognize the unique characteristics of mother’s heartbeat, smell and voice by association; the baby does not know race, colour, religion, social classification or nationality, therefore, requires only love to care for it. Love, like truth is absolute, as regards the tags mentioned above, therefore only the miss-interpretation of survival instincts enables the machinations that engender hateful regards in human relations. The resulting mindset sustains the stalemate that undermines global political and economic protocols; a stalemate that may require eternity to resolve, given the depth of imperfection in global human interactions, as ruled by racial, ethnic, social and religious biases. If only adults would open up like children, and develop more objective dispositions to social obligations, they would most certainly create a better posterity for the babies they claim to protect.

Put babies of different races together, they play and remain compatible, even if they disagree occasionally. None would bear grudges, so they always meet again with no biases. Society in a bid to protect selfish interests grooms compatriots to resent all that look different, or profess dissenting outlooks in language or religion. Imagine the beauty in human relations without the dirt manufactured by social biases, what a beautiful world it would be! This is why I write, knowing there are people out there who share my beliefs.

How can humanity restore its purity, since religion seems to be failing also. Man is unable to nurture earthly beauty as is intended by the creator, instead he breeds confusion, as substantiated by historic testimony of the wars, rise and fall of empires up to the emergence of Western European influence and its hypocritical blend of politics and religion, human slavery for the endless pursuit of profit, followed colonialism that reshaped humanity and the world to its current state. If only humanity retained that child-like capacity, to be free of hypocrisy and its dirt, our world would be so much better. Send a word if you have ideas. It will be appreciated. Thank you for your your interest.

Eta Agbro.