30 August 2018
Rome wasn't built in a day
To get progress in every sector of human life, everyone has to be able to call a spade a spade and practice regularly. Only perfect practice can lead you towards perfection. If anyone does wrong practice he can never achieve his goal. To achieve his goal, he has to wholeheartedly devote his time for the progress of the institutions or organizations or human society. He has to give up personal interest but should devote his time for the progress of the entire organization and the institution where he is. While counseling others, most of the time the counselors forget who they are. It's condemnable it's because the words they speak always mock them. Everyone should not spit over his face. It's sure the spit fall onto his face. Therefore, look at the front before you leap.
Human beings by nature love praising and feel odd to listen to the criticism. Albert Camus, a French writer said, "Nothing more despicable than respect based on fear." Everyone should be independent and prove his worth among his colleagues. Everyone should respect through heart and comment at the front, avoiding backbiting, a human folly, which can prove your worth of being a human. If you are chameleon, you can never be a human. You should have strength to be fair for most but not all. It's because there is not totally perfection in everything. Something lacks everywhere though it is claimed of 100% guarantee. Once Socrates said-It is not living that matters, but living rightly. It means that how long you have worked, somewhere is not of great importance but what you have left among your colleagues matter or how you were concerned to the welfare of the organization matters.
Thinking can guide you but what thinking is. Plato said- Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself. What we think means how we talk to our own soul. To sharpen you, you should develop your opinion. What the opinion is. Again Plato said- Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. It is the opinion that can lead the mob. The catchy opinion attracts human and makes him ready to die and kill. It is one of the mightiest weapons that every human being should have. We human should develop a good opinion and behaviours. Respecting to the senior and loving to the juniors is the virtue of all humans of the world. Everyone should have sweet tone not a clattering. They should be able to speak the words of pain and suffering to sooth their pain like of a divine soul. Therefore, Socrates once said- All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine. It is the summary of the entire Gita, the holy script of Hindus. The Gita says- neither a soul gets birth nor it dies; it's the body that gets birth and decays too. As Socrates said we human beings should try our best to be the righteous. To be the righteous means we should have strength to call a spade a spade whether it is our parents or seniors' wrong doing as a wrong deed and the right as the right. It should not be matter who said; but must matter how it is said.
To develop the habit of righteousness is not the matter of a single day. It needs a long practice-Rome wasn't built in a day. Everyone should be positive even in the crisis. It's true that the darkest hour is just before the dawn. We may shatter when we face the death of our beloved parents or the kids. At the moment, we shouldn't forget that it is a golden chance to experience the departure of the beloved ones. We know how much painful it would be or how emptiness we feel the days ahead. It would be a chance for us to experience both loss and vacuum and a chance to bear the responsibility too. Therefore, collect strength to raise your voice for the sake of organization, institution, nationalism and humanism ultimately to foster where you are.
Chandra Kanta Pandit
Pashupati Mitra Secondary School
Chabahil, Kathmandu, Nepal