Perhaps,
being grateful is a genuine and proactive realization of one’s smallness that
sprouts a pure form of continued willingness to seek help to do away with one’s
limitations from those who can help selflessly. It is not a transaction of give
and take.
Being grateful is becoming indebted forever to the benevolent
act of kindness, not the one who filled in the void that one was not able to
fill in with his own efforts. Having become indebted forever, the one who is grateful
tries to return the favors he had received, to anyone, without any distinction,
by making efforts to repeat the same benevolent act, again and again, that had
helped him overcome his limitations.
Being grateful, therefore, is being humble enough to seek
help for overcoming one’s limitations and to selflessly act to help others in
overcoming their limitations. The one who is not aware of his shortcomings and
makes no efforts to get rid of them can never be grateful, at best, he can be
thankful. The parasites are never grateful to anyone, not even the God.
The awareness of our limitations that prevent us to become
perfect human beings and our willingness to make collective efforts to overcome
them binds all those who possess the quality of being grateful.
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”.]
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