How Selfish and Miser We are!
Have u ever been able to observe your own personal attitude towards others? Have you ever contemplated what you really do to others just to get what u want out of others? Many a times I have been in baffling situation, when I found that people want to get everything out of others, without contributing anything in return; not even the simple gratitude. It is my observation or say observation of many people that we are so much concerned about ourselves, so much soaked with our own selfish nature that sometime we don’t even recognize how someone is contributing so much goodness sometime to our life just because they want to be kind to us and want to see that we live better. Sometime we just want to take the advantage of others goodness by claiming for those things that doesn’t belong to us. Can you just accept the fact that someone comes to you and tells you / force you to give your home off to someone because you were kind one day to him just giving a place to rest for a night? How would you feel? Wouldn’t it break your heart? Make you feel remorseful? It is just a simple example. Most often we exercise our power on others illegally just because those people are kind and helpful to us.
Sometime we just want to get everything for our benefits without even a bit of care of how the other person feels. We love to get the maximum care we can get from others without even imparting a bit of care for them. Each of us have a greater need for the care of others, we feel the need that someone will care for us. How selfish and how rude it is to exploit someone by robbing their care for ourselves without just giving a bit of it from ours!. We are so stiff with your heart as if, if we just share a bit of our love, we will run dry. This attitude of ours makes others life miserable. And it makes the good people feel that they are treated unfairly, that their goodness are not understood, that their effort to help others is not properly felt by the one who receives the help.
I personally feel exploited and used when someone takes the benefits out of me without sharing a bit to me. How I wish that they would return kindness for kindness that I can offer sometime! My contribution to someone’s life might be so little! So trifle! But I am sure that there are people who share much goodness than what I can ever imagine! I wish that each of us will have some attitude to show gratitude to others for the goodness that they shower on us.
God has not created human being to be so selfish, so much self-seeking. He created each of us with the mind and heart to give, give as much as we can. And if we cannot give even a little bit then our existence as human being are futile, we have become just like some other animals! I just feel it.