The Wisdom of Life

I n my view, a good citizen is one who has a predictable character to assess the comfort of others as well. His fellow human beings can be confident of his behaviour, beforehand. For example, while planting saplings, a gardener assumes that no one would harm what he is planting. A gardener expects this good character in his fellow human beings. Similarly, if you are driving on the road and do not blow the horn excessively because people would be bothered by it, you pay heed to the needs of others and can be rightfully called as a good citizen. What is the sense of accountability and how do we develop this? T here is no answer possible for this in the secular culture. The idea of accountability inherently brings about the idea of a Creator, an all-powerful and all-aware Being before whom we would be accountable. It is a matter of developing conscientiousness. Should I stop getting offended for everything? Y es, absolutely! If we criticize the parents of a person, they would get offended. God does not help such people. God helps those who take themselves to such levels of objectivity that they are not offended at all. God loves the one who does not get offended whatever be the situation – when a person does this, all angels would rush in his direction, exclaiming: ‘Here is the kind of a person we were looking for!’ Trivial matters should not offend you. Who suffers from inferiority complex? Each person who tries to crush another suffers from inferiority complex. A political party that spends resources to crush its opponent, in reality, suffers from inferiority complex. On the contrary, a party that is confident about its approach would not waste time in demeaning its competitor; rather it would work towards strengthening its own approach and agenda in order to win. Similarly, one needs to develop a sense of self-confidence. The sense must be so strong that nothing that anyone says – positive or negative – should leave behind an impact on one’s personality. In doing so, one trains one’s mind to remain positive and strengthens its intellectual abilities.