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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Zahid Hussain

Good Morning.

I鈥檝e been wondering about how much we waste. Food. Time. Pretty much everything. We even waste nothing. I mean why do we need a ZERO at the start of phone number? Isn't it a total waste?

Can't we do away with using this digit?

How much ink would the Yellow Pages have saved if the ZERO was omitted? Tonnes!

But I hear you say, 鈥淚t鈥檚 just a zero. It barely takes a second. What鈥檚 the big deal, eh?鈥�

There are more than 5 billion mobile phone users in the world today and if everyone has to dial a ZERO鈥�that makes a lot of zeros.

In the UK, mobile numbers begin with two numbers: ZERO and SEVEN. Why do we need to input these two digits? How many times has someone started to give you their mobile number and there you are waiting impatiently for the digit after the 7? For some of us that鈥檚 every time!

Think of the disk space we would save if we did away with this vestigial feature. Perhaps the humble ZERO once had utility, but all it seems to lead to now is futility.

OK perhaps someone鈥檚 going to come up with a reason for them, but if not, let鈥檚 rid ourselves of digital encumbrances and become leaner and lighter. The Lord knows the world is in need of it.

Dear Lord, we do things that we don鈥檛 need to do. Make us more aware of what is useful and what isn鈥檛. Allow us to save things and not waste things. Allow us to use our intelligence to make our world better each day filled with the lightness of hope.

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