Tuesday, August 23, 2005

True Intentions

I have always felt bad inside, whenever I see things where they are not supposed to be, or if there is something that is out of place somewhere e.g. someone begging on the roadside, or for that matter a child in the picture or on TV. You really want to do something about it. But you see as soon as it disappears from your view you tend to forget about it, rather you try to forget about it and get on with your life as if saying. He I did my bit didn't I, I gave that poor man some money and he will be alright now because he has some money, or for that matter some help has been shoveled at the "person in need". But what does it really entail, you know. How do we really help someone. Is it the same old wham bam thank you maam appraoch where you just try to help someone closest to you and you feel exonerated by the judge and jury that is the moral law of the land and that inner voice.

I am really pissed off at myself for trying to subdue that voice. I actually read somewhere that this guy who wanted to re invent himself and try to get rid of his worldly possessions just left his Porche one day with the keys in the car on a throughfare, and I started wondering can I ever do the same thing that this guy did or for that matter should I even be considering what this guy did to what I should do or could do.

I think there is a natural human tendency to compare and contrast in all instances, be it an actual competitive event or a characteristic of life, we want to be able to see where we are at with other. Very few people in this world have been able to overcome that feeling, but I digress.

Materialism has penetrated so deeply in our core that we easily convince ourselves that if we do our own part, there are going to be no repercussions or the same feeling of absolution comes over us. I say this because there are all sorts of people in this world who follow all sorts of religions but the most common thing that you will find among them is the ability to help their fellow human being.

I think that we all deep down do feel that we owe a great deal of any sort of success to this world (in very general terms), and whenever we help someone, they are just cahing in the favor that was theirs in the first palce, business concluded.

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