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Can good or bad be defined precisely?
How can one assert a person as good or bad! Can a person be completely good or completely bad? What I think is that it is just a frame of mind. Humans are strange creatures. A brutal terrorist or a murderer, all will have somebody or something, to which they act emotionally! Someone they love, someone/ something they care about! However harsh they may be, they will be good to their loved ones. When I look around myself and see people I don’t like, I have a strange feeling of hate. What I think of is the bad things they have done to me or my loved ones. But, when I look closely, I always reach the same conclusion. They did what they did because they thought in their own interests. May be in same situation, if I were to be replaced by some other person whom they love, they might have acted differently.
So, how does the perception of being good or evil changes? What can be categorized as good things? Is doing social work or thinking about others is the only way of doing good things? Is the definition of ‘good thing’ so narrow? I have seen people who might not be categorized as ‘social workers’, but yes they will be there if you need them. They are ready to help even the strangers. I don’t think that doing some big works, educating people, feeding poor, etc is the only way of doing your bit. Yes, it has its own importance, but everybody can’t do this! Small gestures like lending a pen, running some papers, giving a lift, etc are equally and sometimes much more important.
As Anthony ‘Tony’ Robbins, Life coach and NLP Trainer in his talks points out the need of human spirit as ‘contributing beyond ourselves.’ No matter what we do, how we do, we always want to contribute. The secret of living is giving.
So, never judge a person for what he looks like. There are always some sides of a personality you will never see. Take chances, learn from everybody. There’s nothing good or bad, it is what you want it to be.