W A L L S

 The idea of the home is and as old as human history.  Ancient man felt the need of protecting himself from changing weather and from wild animals. So for this purpose, he built houses. at first it was a stone house then wood and straw used and as humanity developed and modern day houses are now built of bricks and blocks. houses give us protection and they are made of walls.

The idea of four walls around us gives us a feeling of safety. Walls protect us from weather and give us privacy and the feeling of possession. outside our walls we feel exposed but once inside we have the feeling that nothing can harm us now. 

Talking a walls, this safety factor is quite psychological for in the present age of science and technology walls can not really protect us from physical dangerous like wars, floods and earthquakes. In fact the safety of our privacy that walls give us. Walls are there to tell others that it is our place and no one can enter it without our permission but walls are not always good. they make people strangers they make some friends and some foes. sometimes walls give us historic value. the two most historic are the great wall of China and the Berlin wall. great wall was built hundreds of years ago to protect China from foreign invaders. Times changed but it still stands there today, a wonder for the modern man. Berlin wall was erected to divide a nation a country but it was an unnatural barrier that could not stand the test of time and the will of people and it fell telling the people that walls are not always good and protective.

 

Walls are a symbol of human need of privacy as well as protection but walls are also a symbol of human alienation. They differentiate between ‘you and me’ ‘mine and yours’. such walls are invisible and they will exist as long as human beings will.