# The House of Tolerance

What is Tolerance?

Tolerance is allowing a person to express himself in his own way and to walk his own path. It is the willingness to accept someone exactly as he is.

A building has many flats. Each one is different from the others. Can everyone live in the same room? Is that even possible? And why should everyone want to live in identical rooms anyway? There is the matter of opportunity and means to consider here.

My home suits me, your home suits you. My life is not like your life, your life is not like mine. I live in my life, let you live in yours.

My child plays with clay dolls, I don't know what your child plays with. But this much I know and accept: watching your own child play before your eyes is one of the most beautiful sights in this world. One's own mother, one's own child—they are precious and beloved to everyone. A burnt roti made by one's own mother tastes better than the mutton biryani from another's mother's hand, and the reason is not the quality of the food but the pull of love. Anyone with an ounce of sense would never ask another to exchange their mother or their child.

My faith teaches me this: to live and grow in one's own way, and to behold the beauty in watching others live and grow in theirs—this is what it means to truly live.