The librarian in us

The librarian in us

What is a human? A librarian, a librarian in one form or another. Our library is defined by what we keep and what we throw. The things we keep, and how we organize them. What we put at eye the level on the shelves, what we put at the bottom, and what we put on the top. Most importantly, what we do not keep, and throw. Our library is both in the sphere of material and the minds. So therefore, to tell who you are? just look at your library.All of us, are born to keep things, toys, pictures, books, clothes and etc. We also keep promises, memories, friends, and relationships. There are different kinds of promises we keep, promises to God, promise to our family, promise to community. Such as the promise one makes to be Citizen in Canada, "Obey the rules and laws of the land...by doing our duty as citizen and pay taxes". There is the promise descendants of man (Adam) makes to God, God says, "Alasto berabekom?" (Am I not your lord), man said, "bala" (surely you are). That is the promise, man keeps to serve Allah, and follow his commands until the day of judgment.  There is a promise, husband and wife make when they  marry, the promise to live together, "till death do us apart".
       In short, since every thing changes in our lives, the storm of Time lets nothing be permanent, everything ends, life ends in death, we age, and grow old, our memories fade away, our things get old and lost. Yet in the mist of all these, the librarian in us in the face of all changes, wants things organized, and in order, and preserved, whether that is the objects we keep or promise, or the friends. What we keep in our library is what defines a human. Therefore, A human is a librarian by nature.
 


by Barakat Rastgar (Notes) on Sunday, April 3, 2011 at 1:13pm