It’s really surprising that Gandhi was able to write a letter to Hitler, addressing him as “Dear Friend?And say goodbye to one at your disposal, your sincere friend?”
Gandhi’s letter to Hitler was sent in 1939, just as a new war threatened peace in Europe; It seems that the letter never came into Hitler’s hands, but it is a text that reveals the personality of Gandhi, one of the characters who has awakened the most admiration and continues to provoke him in many of us.
- His intelligence goes through a masterful way of understanding the world and life through understanding.
- Humility and the ability to win a thousand battles without a single war.
- And his understanding is the secret to understanding this character.
- A mental skill that is a clear example of interpersonal intelligence.
- Which Gadner describes in his theory of multiple intelligences.
Dear friend
Friends have insisted that I write to them for the sake of humanity, but I resisted your request, because I believe that any letter written by me would be impertinent, something tells me that I should not hesitate and that I must make my call, because it can be useful.
It is clear that today you are the only person in the world who can avoid a war capable of reducing humanity to its wildest state, are you willing to pay that price for whatever reason, however valid it may seem?Someone who has deliberately set aside the methods of war and had considerable success?Anyway, I apologize in advance if I was wrong to write to you.
At your disposal
Your sincere friend?.
In line with this revealing letter, it is interesting to say that it was criticized by the public for considering that it used a very submissive tone. But Gandhi had no doubts; Doesn’t shouting louder get any better?as he has already shown in his peaceful and famous “March of the Salt” and in all the protests he has made throughout his life.
Gandhi sent a second letter to Hitler on December 24, 1940, asking him to stop the war. Currently, the two letters are in Mani Bhavan, Mumbai, where a peaceful rebel has lived for almost 20 years. Mani Bahvan is a simple museum that invites us to learn more about this character.
Thus, the history of humanity offers us a thousand examples of how our thinking, our intellectual and emotional capacity to face the world lead to the best actions of the human being and also to the greatest atrocities.
What other examples could we draw from history for our present today, for our present, and how much history should we teach the school and our politicians to make the world a little better?
And it is that psychology is everywhere, it is in art and it is in history, it is in the way we greet our neighbor when we meet at the door of the house or in the way we go to the cash register. supermarket on days when the line is huge. or when we drive and the traffic is impossible?
“Who really knows what you’re talking about, finds no reason to raise your voice?
? Leonardo da Vinci?
To conclude this reflection, we leave other interesting examples in the history of how the mind governs the world and how it can take the best and worst of ourselves for others.
? Democracy in Athens in 460 BC One of the first important steps in history. A concept that would revolutionize and change the vision of societies, power is not unique to one person, but to all, in this way we can all be happier in our day to day with a just legislative system, not only for some, but for all. for an entire community.
? The invention of the press in 1450. An important step towards understanding that education and culture must be accessible to all. Education is the most powerful weapon to positively transform the world.
? Women have the right to vote in 1893. New Zealand. Gradually it was incorporated into other countries. Women have a lot to contribute to society.
? The United States dropped the atomic bomb in 1945, an example of human barbarism.
What other historical facts do you think are important to improve our human relationships?