BE HUMANE. PROTECT, PROMOTE AND PRESERVE ANIMALS.

BE HUMANE. PROTECT, PROMOTE AND PRESERVE ANIMALS. - AAIZ, ECOCARE MALDIVES.MV

Since the arrival of mankind on our planet, we have colonized the four pinnacles of earth and declared ourselves masters above all other species. Armed by our status as Homo sapiens sapiens priding with the power to think and extraordinary brain power altogether, humanity has rule this planet for centuries with great power. But with great power comes responsibility. Therefore, we have a great responsibility towards other animals that inhabit earth for they too are the rightful inheritors of our planet.

Animal rights have justifiably become a really big social issue in today’s world. Environmentalists and naturalists all over the world have risen to advocate the rights of our fellow creatures. The most basic and vital right that all animals deserve is the right to life, in the context that no animals should be killed without reason. This doesn’t mean we all have to turn vegetarians or anything. Guys, I am not saying that you shouldn’t turn vegetarian for medical reasons but in an environmental perspective being vegetarian cause more damage than good. This is mainly, because for the continual survival of animals and humans alike, we need to maintain the delicate balance of life that we call the ecosystem.

Some of the reasons how being vegetarian destroys this delicate balance stands thus:-

1) For starters, when people stop eating animal products we solely depend on plants for our food. This causes of overusing plant produce and thereby, limiting the food of the very animals we are trying to protect.

2) Plants are important for life. And if we stop eating animal produce, then plants would be the sole source of nutrition. And therefore, chance of plants going extinct is there.

3) Animals contain necessary proteins which humans can’t get from any plant anywhere in the world. So it is vital for our well being to eat animals.

4) The environment would get polluted if the number of plants decreases drastically and efficient gaseous exchange is not taken place.

So the answer is definitely not, turning vegetarian then what is the answer? It is the use of the methods of sustainable development in protecting animals too. For example hunting animals for fun, culture, pride, games should be stopped immediately. Even the animals we need to kill to eat, we should use efficient breeding methods.

For example: – In order to get chicken meat, we should not kill the baby chicks and a pair or two of a hen and a rooster should always be there for the sole purpose of breeding therefore more of this animal will continue to be born in this world. If we take another example more relevant to our country, where fish is the primary source of food, overfishing should not be practiced and fishing of entire shoals of fish should not be allowed and fishing in certain regions can be stopped in order to insure the survival of the species. I would like to take an example of a sad event that took place a few years back. A bunch of fisherman from the island of, HDH. Dhidhoo in order to challenge the Maumoon administration threw loads of freshly caught fishes into the Atoll office in protest to the decrease in the price rates at which fish was sold to foreign ships etc. I feel that this was a major violation of the rights of these fish as all of them had died for no reason and it was a great loss in an economic perspective too.

In less trivial issues than their right to life, animals should also be treated with kindness. Some of you may ask, why? They are just animals. Why should we treat them kindly? The simplest answer that I could give you is we are human. And one of the basic characteristic of our race is humanity. Being humane. And as humane beings we should be kind to those creatures who are our fellows in sharing this earth. We can be kind to animals by showing basic gestures like feeding some milk or a piece of dry fish to a hungry street cat or simply by avoiding hurting any animal in any possible way.

Protecting animals are very important for our survival. We are all part of the same ecosystem, the same cycle of life in which each factor or element depends on the other. The truth is, we need these animals to survive ourselves. So we should protect them for our own sake if not for theirs. Nature has made us all its sons and daughters irrespective of our nation, color or even species. Therefore we should all be able to coexist peacefully enjoying the fruits of Mother Nature.

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Prayer

This post goes out to the victims of the dreadful hiriyaa incident. May allah bless the four students who drowned to death, forgive their sins and grant them the fruits of heaven. May allah let Nazim be among the bravest of martyrs and grant him blessings and gardens of paradise as well as all our wellwishes. Oh, Allah give the families of those who died the strength to move on with their lives and heal and may they find solace in the loss they've sustained.
A very special prayer goes out for the kid who survived the incident and watched her best friends and principal die infront of her very eyes. May she find the strength to move on with life and may her faith strengthen.

My Word Against JFK

Hey people, if there are any people left D: sorry, i was out for some time. had no muse to write, really.

President Kennedy (May 29 1917 - November 22, 1963) a famous president amongst Americans of the past and today and also known to the whole world. I myself have heard President Kennedy's several times and folks I've got to tell you that almost 90% of those times it was in relation to his world famous quote, ' Ask not what your country can do for you, Ask what you can do for your country,'

I don't pretend to differ with Kennedy entirely, in this quote. Indeed it is true. It is important to ask in every step of our lives, what we can do for our country. because our country is very important, to be very honest i don't believe there is anything which is more important than your nation, your motherland. Therefore in each step of our waking lives, we should ask ourselves what we can do for our country? What all contributions we can make for our nation? What we as citizens can do to make our motherland a betterplace? What are our duties towards our sacred homeland?

But i believe it is almost equally important to ask ourselves and the state and the stake holders of the state and the society and the government and the parliament what the state does for us, Does the state fullfill our human rights? cause guys, lets get real here. If you are not content and if you don't get your wants satisfied you wont have the motivation to work as a humble and dynamic citizen for your country. When we scroll through the pages of history we also see something else. Most of the rebellious leaders who had gone out there and brought revolution to their countries were driven to do so because they were deprived of their rights. I m a huge fan of the nurture argument in the Nature VS Nurture debate, i don't have to be right but, its my belief that nobody is born as anything. We are what the society molds and shapes us to be. Therefore, nobody is born a freedom fighter or even a nationalist. We are made as such.

Besides, guys how does a nation prosper anyway? what is the real prosperity of a country. I believe that a nation prospers through the prosperity of its most important aspect, the population. As we progress, so does our country. Its a direct relationship. So we need to be given the basic rights by the state in order for us to progress hereby bringing our nation up the charts with us.

Rights and duties are like the two faces of the same coin, folks. And here is the thing about a coin. Many people have different views about it. A lot of people believe that head is opposite to the tail. But i think without the Head there wont be the tail. The head is part of the tail and the tail is part of the head. They are different, yes, they are very different. But they are also inseperable. The same applies to rights and duties. To explain the oneness of rights and duties I'd like to take a very simple example. We have the right to live but its our duty to serve our nation in our life. WE have the right to work, but its our duty to work for the betterment of our nation. It is our right to vote. But its our duty to vote to establish a better governance for our nation. As you'd have seen from the example we are empowered with rights so we can do our duties.

THEREFORE, in constrast to the statement made by JFK, i personally believe that asking what our country does for us is also very important because it is directly related in determination of what we can do for our country.

- AAR -

Change (Part 1)

One of the most amazing facts modern day science has brought to us is that no two people have the same finger print, not even identical twins. More than six billion people live in the world right now. Billions more have lived and died. And if god wills, billions more are yet to be born. And the fact that none of these people have different hand structures and marks enough to give various finger prints is definitely a wonder and a cause for amazement for someone who thinks. But looking even deeper into that then the face or obvious amazement this variation shows us, we realize that in our deepest nature god has made us different from each other. No two people are the same. Everyone is unique and precious.
Another amazing fact we see in our day to day life, is time. When a tiny baby is born into our midst we celebrate its tiny life and the happiness it brings to us. It is one of the most beautiful things we see in life. And a lot of us wish the baby to remain so, young and innocent. But this is not to happen. As time goes on it starts to walk, talk nonsense and with more time it also starts making mistakes. The baby that nobody yells at or gets angry at, at its young age starts getting scolded, starts getting reprimanded, starts knowing that he too has limitations. And as this child grows further he leaves the fruits of his innocent childhood and enters arguably the most stressful, hormonal inbalanced phased in anyone's life. The woes of being an adolescent. The child starts questioning the ways and norms of the society and sometimes the parents of these children wish that their child had remained small, as the apple of their eyes but its not to be. The circle of time doesn't stop here. The child matures and thankfully, leaves his adolscent ages to become adult, he becomes responsible, he entirely leaves his childish nature and enters life as men and start battling the tides of life. And here, even these people wish that they had been able to remain as teenagers or children, innocent and carefree. But then again, it is not to be. Days become weeks, weeks become months, months become years and finally the person grows old and falls into his sick bed and once again wishes that he was young and had all his organs functioning properly but time, time doesn't stop for anything but death.
From the cycle of time i had just aforementioned, comes another fact. Not only are no two people same but even one person doesn't remain the same. There is only one explanation for both these facts. one reality.. change. Life is all about changes and change is inevitable, unstoppable and whole.

Walking in isn't easy. Walking out is tough. Walking back in, its near impossible

- Aaiz

The ultimate cure for depression.

Disclaimer:- Some of the data, that is included in this blogpost is not truly my own. Some are from Kubler Ross's book 'death and dying' and others from famous TV show 'How I met your mother' But there are some personal references that belong to me.

In 1969 world famous psychiatrist Elisabeth Kubler-Ross introduced a five-stage model of depression, in her book 'death and dying.' In this book Kubler describes that depression comes with five stages. 1.Denial 2.Anger 3.Bargaining 4. Depression 5.Acceptance.

At first i mocked Kubler. I denied the model. I didn't believe that all those phases had to come along with it. I might have been right to an extent seeing that this model is only intended for death related depression. But like i discovered lately in my own little phase of depression only in the last few months, that all these phases does come in some way or the other. And yes, denial always comes at first. For me then came, bargaining. Then Anger and depression together followed by acceptance. But i believe that Kubler is wrong to believe that it will all flow naturally. I believe that there is a way to end this phase in two stages. Initially, depression and then acceptance.

'When I'm sad i stop being sad and be awesome instead' - Barney Stinson a comedy character in popular american Tv series how i met your mother.

This quote by Barney is a highly popular and amusing quote among many of us. But how many of us have stopped to consider the good advice it offers. Sure, most of the stuff barney says are just for amusement sake and highly made up. But this particular quote caught me if i might say, 'off guard.' Barney Stinson's solution to depression is simple. Stop being sad or depressed and be awesome. I know what majority of the people who read this would think. Yea if only it was that easy Barney. But to be frank, it is that easy when you think on that.
'Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance'. All of those phases, as hard as it is to believe is voluntary. There is a part of us. a part that few of us are able to bring forward who can fight back and just stop all of that.
Recently, when i was depressed about something, maybe the most depressed that I've ever been a lot of people close to me gave me different advices. My best friend told me different tactics to deal with it. But only one thing really helped. A sort of new friend, someone I've just met told me i was being Soppy and sounding really desperate. (thank you suha. i hope you never read this, cause i dont wanna admit it to you that i accepted that.) That gave me time to look at myself in the mirror and evaluate how I have been, do a real indept study of who i've been in the past few weeks or one month and realize that i m being someone who i m not. So, when you are depressed look at yourself, evaluate what you are doing and realize on your own (or with a help of a really absurd and big mouthed friend) that you are being a different person. Someone who is beneath you. Someone who you are not. And from there draw the courage to be you. be happy for what you've got in life. Cause when you evaluate your life, you'd always find that you've got somethings special. somethings worth being happy for. AND, watching How i met your mother helps too ;)

Apart from that, you have to realize that regrets are one thing that will keep you down. So do not regret anything that happened. There will be a phase somewhere along depression and anger in which you'd blame someone else or/and yourself for the bad things in life. But you've got to stop blaming anyone. Believe that its nobody's fault and that whatever happened, happened for the best. And you are happy with what you've got and damn straight, as barney said BE AWESOME. Of course, barney has a very 'special' way of being awesome. You don't have to be that. But do whatever you are passionate about. Live your life. Remember that whatever caused your depression is just a chapter of your life. Not the entire book and Live with a smile. A grin or a laugh would be better, but a smile would do :).
If you are depressed right now, you'd probably think all those are very easy to say. But to be quite frank it is very easy to do too. There is an invisible switch within your soul and being that you can click and start living life for the fullest. of course the bad stuff that have happened would always be a part of you, but keep it vague. as a memory. not as the whole of you. And a very important thing, lay off music for a while. IF YOU DO listen to music, listen to the funny stuff (eg. Tenacious D- Tribute) or the inspirational stuff (Wavin' Flag (haiti version) or the dirty stuff. (Nine Inch Nails - Closer) ;). So in conclusion, the answer, the ultimate cure to depression as weird as it sounds is Awesomeness :D.

God's greatest gift to mankind

Humans are an organism like another in the animal kingdom. And yet, humans are different from all other animals. The taxonomical term for humans are 'homo sapien sapien.' The repetition in 'sapien' stands for our brain power that exceeds all of our fellow animals. The human mind is truly more fascinating than that of all other animals in this world. It is full of possibilities and ideas and distinguishes.

Something else which sets us apart is our conscience. Our power to choose between right and wrong. To be able to decide whether an act is done rightfully or with other intentions. But this conscious intertwined appropriately with our amazing mind with the remarkable abilitiy of possibilities gives birth to an incredible ability which has come to be known as perception.

What is perception? Perception is what we perceive. The definition of perceive in the english dictionary is to become aware of through the senses. I beg your pardon if i am wrong but i believe that this is rather a very brief description to a really amazing power.

Said Aldous Huxely 'To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' - this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.' What Mr. Huxely has stated here is just a little scratch of what the gift of perception means. It talks about bad behavior. But beyond that negativity perception can be a real beautiful thing. For example two people of the same age, the same sex, the same nationality, speaking in the same language, of the same race, believing in the same religion sitting in a bench might witness an event take place and have two different interpretations on it. And yet, why should that be so? After all these people are from the same place, they believe in the same faith, they are from the same age group but yet it is beautiful that our individuality and uniqueness is to such an extent that even these two people who have seen the same event take place would have different accounts on the incident.

It does not have to be entirely different. If two people got into a fight and one got injured, in one person's report the reason for the fight might be perceived in a different way than the other even though they might still believe the same person is to be blamed for it. Such strong is the gift of perception and that level of individuality makes us different from others. And this level of uniqueness in the six billion people scattered around the world and the billions of people who have lived and died, and the billions yet to come is an astounding fact and a great statistical miracle and truly the greatest gift god or nature have given us in our days in the world.