By:  Tipu Salman Makhdoom

About the author – Having a rare blend of over 18 years’ of practicing law, including legal drafting and presenting cases from the level of trial court to supreme court, along with teaching law, legal research and research writing, He is in a unique position of solving legal issues and playing his role in the development of legal philosophy.

I have an email account, a facebook account, a twitter account, and now a blog (all of these free though). I send a lot of emails, even more tweets, further more facebook status updates and sharings, and on top of all that, now I want to write blogs. Why?

To be honest, I don’t know. As a spy character in the Hollywood movie “Shall We Dance” beautifully described ‘life partner’ as a person we want to have as a witness of our lives, because we don’t want our lives to go un-noticed; I guess I also want to be noticed–witnessed–heard. 

Above all, understood!

Understood? Does it have something in common with ‘sharing’? Makes a lot of sense. Can I understand someone without sharing his/her perspective? Can I understand why a suicide bomber kills innocent children in the name of God without sharing his dreams about the decrees from God? Can I understand Israeli occupation without sharing Jewish insecurities of Medieval English injustices, Spanish inquisitions & Holocaust? Can I understand why Stephen Hawking is trying to understand universe from his wheelchair without first sharing  his excitement on being alive with a consciousness? I doubt.

I want to share everyone’s perspective; everyone’s including mine, yours, and God’s because I want to understand, and in the process, be understood. To be understood I want to be shared. And to be shared, I want to be heard.

Hear me, I exist!