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they are considered to be outdated.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
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