Everywhere, you hear people lamenting about
how goodness does not pay. What do we aspire for in return for it? What payment?
It is strange that we have to be calculating here as well. I always thought it
had everything to do with qualities like caring, wanting the best for someone,
protecting someone, looking out for someone etc.
Well, as people close to me say, I live in
an alternate world and am completely clueless about where the world is today.
Not quite! It is one thing to know where it is and another to agree with
everything it stands for.
Even today, respect is earned with the same
old “obsolete” values. More so, because a majority is moving away from them
that their value is ever increasing.
Yes, they are considered to be outdated because
it is too much work for the rapid climbers today. Yet, when we see someone way
above in ethics, in moral code of conduct, the discerning among us must realize
it as a tough call requiring a lot of faith in oneself and the determination to
go it alone if one has to, to respect oneself first before others respect you.
Absolutely commendable!
Of course, those who have travelled a long way,
away from home, are kind of lost and don’t want to be told this. And so, they
have to find their way back to their core. Until then, the way out is waiting
and praying.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
