The word comes from ‘that which may be inherited’ from Old French. It is pertinent to note the component ‘Heir’ which obviously refers to something that is inherited… meaning passed on by someone else from the sometime of days gone by.
Anything that is received from contributions of someone else cannot be squandered away. It has to be retained and maintained… it needs to be restored and secured for the future. To be careless of heritage, is to we lose the valuable fruit of the efforts of our ancestors.
Not all
heritage may be desirable. It may have negative experiences attached to it. There
may be pain or hurt involved in its birth. Nevertheless, it will offer wisdom
if we choose to learn lessons instead of blindly glorifying it.
The
past tells us where we have come from… it does not tell us where we will go! Our
future is determined by the way we learn from what has happened before. We must
embrace the positives and we must distance ourselves from the negatives. But we
must learn either way!
May
heritage and its lessons lead us to wisdom. When heritage is destroyed, the
lessons are lost. Hence we should take care of all heritage: natural or
man-made. But the biggest learning comes from the heritage called humaneness… Let’s
ensure that it is passed on!
Heritage is a great teacher of what happened before
The positive will lead to lessons as will painful sores!
- Pravin K. Sabnis
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