I started going for a walk, early in the morning, in a ground nearby, a few days ago. Except for the walking path and the area inscribed in it, there’s garbage all around.
At the sight of it, my dad made a remark, “this is the situation of our country in the 21st century and we expect to become a developed country in the near future” and sighed.
His remark lingered on my mind for the whole day and I couldn’t understand why people are so ok with littering. What would I do if I were drinking from a water packet while walking there? Will I care to carry it home and throw it in a dustbin? Or will I just throw it in the pile lying there, saying one more wouldn’t matter!?
It may sound cliché but yes, I’ll do the former action since its the GREATER GOOD!
So, what is this Greater Good? And how did we miss it in our education?
To define in a line, Greater Good is placing the rightful and better interests above our selfish ones and acting on them without fail.
Throwing a water package into a pile of thousand is easy but if the person who first threw had restrained doing it, the other 999 maynot have! Maybe!! 🤷
The interest of the people littering can be, "why work so hard taking the garbage home, while there's a pile right here, infront of me?" 😏
The better interest is obviously that of the planet's. I don't need to start on the problems that arise from waste mismanagement 🙂
This is what the concept of Greater Good is! Choosing the better interests over and over the useless ones 😇
Anyway, littering is still a less serious problem when compared to the ones I'm going to quote later in this post. Just a pile of water packets, tomorrow or day after tomorrow a cleaner can take it out.
But the problem is not the type of problem. Problems can be trivial sometimes. It's the mentality behind the action which is a serious problem. Throwing a wrapper on the road looks trivial but the reckless mentality behind it is grave 😑
As a person practises this reckless attitude, it grows stronger and stronger via these trivial practices and later becomes a part of his character.
As the time passes, his brain ceases to see the Greater Good in anything and everything he does. All he continues to look at is his own benefit!
When a politician forgoes the request of an eminent leader to contest from his party, over the money offered by a rowdy sheeter, Greater Good is burnt to ashes.
When a dedicated employee is kept from promotion because he can occupy his boss's chair with his unmatched skillset, Greater Good is dumped into the garbage bin.
When a deserving contestant loses his chance of appointment, since he failed to bribe the recruiting authority like his fellow candidate, Greater Good sobs in a shut dark room.
When a boy with a bat in his hands and dreams in his eyes is sent back home just because he comes from a distant part of the country and has no recommendation from the influential guys, the country fails to lift the world cup 🙁
All of this continues to happen because we are so addicted to the instantaneous results that we turn a blind eye to the long term ones... Just like in the following case:
Suresh happens to be an employee at Defence Research Center. A group of interns at the headquarters are expected to deliver their best and after a week, one of them will be inducted into the organisation.
The final selection is overseen by Mr.Suresh. After the tense week of giving their bests, Suresh conveniently picks Ramesh, his son, over Rajesh who is the brightest in the lot.
Ramesh gets inducted but fails to cater to the country's needs at the best possible level. Country's defence grows vulnerable due to lack of innovation from the Defence Research Center. Neighbouring countries keep threatening of war. Government sees that Research Center has no extraordinary capability in producing new technologies and steps into the world market to buy weapons 😞
Buying your protection cover from somebody else is the same as selling your defense strategies, since all the information of your weapons is known to the selling country. And the Research guys watch all this happening helplessly...
And people like Suresh keep jeopardising the future of the country.
Will Suresh not face the consequences? Of course he will! Every action of yours will fetch back it's consequences.
If an enemy country throws a bomb, Suresh will die too! His body is not made of steel!!! It's just that, just like Mr.Suresh, we all are addicted to instantaneous results so much that we drop curtains over "Greater Good".
While Ramesh getting salary is a near result, country growing weak takes time, hence is a long term result and more often it is blamed on the government 🤷
Ok, now what happens to Rajesh, the bright one?
It's his second rejection in the Research area and this disappointment sent his dreams crumbling to pieces. Yet he has to earn a living. So he settles with a small occupation. He teaches his children to do the same and not to chase after their unrealistic dreams because he is not influential enough to get them into big organisations even if they're talented.
He fails to teach his children that Greater Good exists and they should give their best shot in what they aspire to become "since he never experienced it himself".
This is what the whole point behind the narration is!
"What happens to you in your life is the education you receive outside a school"
If Greater Good doesn't happen to you, you miss it in your character, your heart and your life!!!
That's how we missed it in our education. And henceforth we grow to believe that it doesn't exist. But it's out there! Waiting for us to grab and put it in our minds and hearts!! It's never late! It's never late to do better things and to have better perceptions😊! The only next responsibility is to make sure our coming generations not miss the 'Greater Good" as we have 😇
I say it's time. It's time we look at "Greater Good" as an accessory, a weapon, a pledge and a mindset ✊🏻.
It's no more a better alternative but a necessity that we take a moment before every action we perform to identify the "Greater Good" of it, do it and grow that muscle of our brains stronger and healthier everyday 💪
Good luck and good day ☺️
To choosing "Greater Good" 🥂
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