A World without Borders

people usually get offended as normal and adjust to it, just as all situations, both pleasant and unpleasant, are accepted within a family. A world without borders only requires universalization of this family culture. Once when I went to Spain and landed at the Madrid airport, I remembered the words of an Arab tourist who, after seeing the glorious developments of Spain, recalled the days when Arabs were ruling over the country. He said with great nostalgia: ‘Will the previous age ever return to us?’ But when I saw the advances made in Madrid, my feelings were different. In my travelogue, I acknowledged the attainments of the people of Spain and observed that, whereas Muslims in their time had brought traditional development to Spain, the Spanish people had now brought about development according to modern scientific standards. In the modern age, the maxim, ‘everything for everyone’ has been accepted as a principle. If a person takes the ‘passport’ and the ‘visa’ as parts of a normal routine, he will be able to consider every country as his own. He will happily accept these formalities. In the modern world, nationhood is linked to the homeland. This leads to the concept of patriotism. But if a person lives by the concept of universal patriotism, he will take the whole world as his own. A world without borders seems unachievable at the physical level, but, at the psychological level, it is quite achievable for everyone.