LOVE
YOUR COUNTRY
“Love your country” however less
wealthy, less modern, less progressive, less developed, less beautiful, and less
rewarding than other countries it may be.
Your
health and happiness depend upon love, not on the luxuries which are becoming
available in several advanced countries. Your simple and contented mother is
more affectionate and self-sacrificing than those whom you may meet in other countries .
The
sun, the moon, the seas, the hills, the valleys, the gardens and forests, the
roads and streets of your own country are more satisfactory for your emotions than those you may find in other countries.
Learn,
play, sing, dance, walk, work, form friendships, relationships, visit places of
worship and do social service in your own country.
Always
remain a native; never become a
foreigner.
Luxuries
are superfluous. Necessaries are indispensible. And necessaries like food and
other articles are adequately available in your own country.
Specific
countries have specific comforts. Don’t abandon your homeland for foreign pleasures.
Remember,
that walking is better than sitting in a moving car. The former is exercise;
the latter is sickening sedentariness.
Love
for one’s own motherland is known as patriotism. The United States lawyer and
former Secretary of State Daniel Webster (1782-1852) said: Let our object be
our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country. And, by the
blessing of God, may that country itself become a vast and splendid monument,
not of oppression and terror, but of wisdom and peace, and of liberty, upon
which the world may gaze with admiration forever.
The
English poet-playwright William Shakespeare (1564-1616) declared: Had I a dozen
sons, ---each in my love alike,---I had rather have eleven die nobly for their
country, than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.
Finally,
the following words of the Greek philosopher Plato (born in Athens around 426/427
BCE and died in 348/347 BCE) :
“There
can be no affinity nearer than our country.”
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G.R.Kanwal
15 September 2025
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