Mother Teresa’s Simple Path
Roshan M Royce
HS 122 NX
Saint Peter’s College

Mother Teresa’s Simple Path Planet earth in the twenty first century is a very complex habitat. Planet earth is not just complex because of the wide range of nature and animal life thriving but rather because of one special inhabitant, human beings. In many ways, humans are the best and worst thing that ever happened to our world. Our ego had driven this beautiful planet to the verge of near destruction with wars, violence and protests, terrorism and other forms of bloodshed. Today, if there is a conflict in terms between nations or even among people of the same nation on a particular matter, hate and disgust flow like a river and people alienate nations and groups of people on the basis of silly blind reasons such as skin color, gender, sexual orientation, nationality, race, religion, language, wealth and standing in society. History has provided the inhabitants of the earth with many opportunities to learn from their mistakes, mistakes that range from an individual level to nations or union of nations. Yet the sorrow remains that the nations have failed to learn and change either due to selective ignorance or from arrogance. But history never quits. History is always searching for the wise to provide knowledge and understanding like a parent, like a teacher or guru with tears in the eyes. We shall look at one of the best lesson that history has provided us in the person of Mother Teresa. Mother Teresa was born on August 27th, 1910 in Skopje, Macedonia as Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu (Teresa, 2007). Agnes was the last among the three siblings. Agnes’s family had an Albanian ancestry. Agnes’s father, Nikola Bojaxhiu was an Albanian nationalist (Egan, 1981). Agnes’s mother by her maiden name, Drone Bernai was a deeply pious and religious person (Egan, 1981). Agnes grew up in a household