WE STILL HAVE MILES TO GO

If I say that there are people, who are truthful, courageous, compassionate, sacrificing, selfless, simple, humble, patient, without greed and pride, and eager to know what must be known etc.; I do not talk in thin air. I have met such people in the past and have interacted with them. Even today, there are many who possess such qualities.

If there are many having such fine qualities, who are known to me, there is every possibility that a vast population of mankind possessing such qualities can exist. There is no logic that can establish that what most of us treat as an ideal cannot be realized.

Further, I have not met anyone so far who wouldn’t have been pleased to know that he was believed to be in possession of such qualities by others. This amply proves that the man does not rubbish such qualities. But, the fact that the modern man is almost convinced that such qualities do not help him much in his pursuits of comfortable survival in this world, cannot be overlooked. This implies that perhaps, such qualities do not suit the modern way of human living. However, we are also not sure if the modern man is thoroughly convinced that the way he lives in this world really suits him.

Hence, we cannot say with sufficient conviction that what looks to be an ideal cannot be practically adopted in our lives. For all one knows, perhaps, we have not experimented enough to conclude that we have done the best to suit human life. In all likelihood, we still have miles to go.

PROMOD KUMAR SHARMA

[The writer of this blog is also the author of “Mahatma A Scientist of the Intuitively Obvious” and “In Search of Our Wonderful Words”.]