Digesting success! It is a social issue
which increases with more materialism incorporating elements like excess
wealth, celebrity status and the power that accompanies these, often bringing
in a certain amount of carelessness, even callousness and riding slip shod over
people because with a head in the clouds, looking down is not a virtue in
possession.
Spiritually,
these are often not compatible because of what they do to the psyche. It is
only the odd person who can digest “success” in
terms of good karma being rewarded and therefore, gratitude.
But there is a little good news…
Today,
the tolerance to myopic attitudes is wearing thin. The wheel is turning once
more towards the universal values and against self centered thoughts and actions at the cost of others.
Today,
gradually, right is being applauded as right and wrong as wrong. I guess we are
fed up of artifice, might is right, the attitude that the end justifies the
means and the economic disparities which continue to make it difficult for the
common man to keep a certain standard, especially when there is so much
available that money can buy today.. And it doesn't help to have glaring
publicity and opulence for those few who have much and state it every minute
with their attitudes, their lifestyles and not enough demonstration of
improving the lot of the masses in the country.
No, I
am not either a communist or an anti capitalist. But I do believe in values
like stooping when tall, humble when successful and contributing to creating a
balanced society in every way.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
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