Imran Khan

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There is a day in a woman’s life, when she feels like a princess, every eye watches her, her heart filled with pleasure. It’s her wedding day and indeed a special occasion for the starting of a new life.  But on the 15^th of November, 2005 a real princess married, but soon became a commoner loosing her status as princess. Sounds unfamiliar, but it’s true, Japan’s Princess Sayako, the only daughter of Emperor Akihito, married Yoshiki Kuroda, a city official in the Tokyo government, although he is from a well-versed family but doesn’t have the royal blood.

Most of the time royal families do remain hidden in their palaces and no one knows about what’s going on in their lives. They have there own lifestyle which is often fantasized by all other people. Commoners have no interaction with them unless on few occasions but still on that time one can feel that they are in between us but they are not like us. The high walls of castles divide them from citizens.  The rules are tough and royal families only live together and they don’t accept others of whom are not part of there families. Perhaps they are always told that their status and position is over everyone.

But things don’t stand changeless forever. It reminds me of the stories we used to hear that a princes was going on a journey surrounded by guards and suddenly her horse frightened and galloped, her life was in danger and finally she was rescued by a common man, she falls in love with him and when they try to marry, the king, the queen and every one in royal family opposes it and tries to use every mean to stop the marriage.

The time changed many things and this time around there was nothing like that. Princess Sayako also known as Nori got the permission from her father and family. The Japanese monarchy is the oldest in the world starting some 1600 years ago and it was the first time in the history that an emperor’s daughter married to a commoner. Now she left the big palace and went to live in a rented apartment of one bed room and she was also learning driving, cooking food, and other things necessary to live like a common citizen.

This event shows us that knowledge of respecting others and treating them equally can change the whole world. One would have never imagined that this marriage would have taken place in history so smoothly. It comes with education which tells us to treat every person with equality and no one has any kind of superiority on others because of any cast, race, color, class, religion or anything else. Every human is equal and every one has right to live as he wants. We can learn from this wedding of how a princess rejected her privileged status as a member of the imperial family for her love and how well things went on till the end. Her family could have made it difficult because it never happened before but very wisely they accepted her decision to marry some one who is not a member of the royal family.  It’s a big problem especially in developing countries. I know that in Pakistan the family system is very strong and the families which are rich, strong, or resourceful never mix with others unless they have a status like them. Their girls and boys can’t even imagine about marrying with some one from a lower class or family. If someone ever tries to do it, eventually the end is not very cheerful for everyone. This could be removed and yes, princess Sayako’s (now Mrs. Kuroda) marriage can be taken as a great example that if a princess can marry a commoner than any person can marry anyone. It’s not limited with marriage only but the inequalities we have in this world can be removed if we start thinking about respecting others with their qualities and good behavior rather than in any other classification.

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