Mejdi posted a condolence
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
1. Mandy, after your comment re: Asha meannig life in Africa, I just had to respond firstly to that. Africa is a HUGE continent and stating that anything is African, doesn't remotley provide an accurate picture of its history, its contemporary usage, etc. Trawling through the web, the most common sites that make the effort to be specific state that Asha means life in Swahili (indicating its East African origins) or hope in Sanskrit (the Indian/Asian side of it). My experience with the name comes from my mother's family who are Sierra Leonean Muslims. Therefore, I am more familiar with variations such as: Iesha, Isha, Aisha .2. Wrt the post, it's heartbreaking to realise that the people who are supposed to provide a cushion to the world's bumps and scrapes, turn out to be the most vindictive and soul-destroying individuals we could ever hope not to meet. I think that hating someone puts too much power into their hands and allows her/him to continue to hurt long after we have cut ourselves off from their physical presence. However, I fully agree with the decision to cut yourselves off from family members who cannot even manage to perform the most basic instinct found in living organisms that is, to protect the young. Human beings proclaim to be the most intelligent creatures on the planet, yet we routinely experience adults physically, emotionally and verbally harming children because?
