OUR FORGOTTEN ACTS OF GOODNESS

 




“A goodness you do by waiting for a return

is not a goodness,

but just a cunning investment in the future.”

Mehemet Murat Ildan

 

Life is short… It gets even shorter through our complaints. When our complaints occupy our major mind-space, it is difficult for us to notice and appreciate the beautiful gifts we are blessed with… Complaints make life look like a bottomless pit… No matter how valuable gifts God puts into it, they all go down into this pit with no bottom!

Our complaints breed our unhappiness – our disappointments, hurts, sorrow, self-pity and pain.

A major complaint, which many of us carry in life, is, that we do not find people reciprocating our goodness towards them...

Sounds familiar?

Let’s see it from both ends…

We complain, saying, that those who we have helped are ungrateful to us. On the other hand, others who have helped us complain, saying, that we are ungrateful to them. Thus, just as we feel hurt and angry, there are others feeling hurt and angry, too.

This goes on and on and on…

Through this, life, which is already short, gets even shorter.

A major complaint, which many of us carry in life, is, that we do not find people reciprocating our goodness towards them...

The lesser we remember the names and the times when help others, the more peaceful we can be. Our goodness towards others is our reward in itself… The more we forget, the better it is for us… Life can be more fruitful.

Here, we have a lot to learn from the little squirrels of the forests… It’s said, that they forget more than seventy-five percent of the places where they bury their nuts… These forgotten nuts grow up into mighty trees… The nuts naturally dropped by these trees, eventually, grow into wide-ranging forests…

Likewise, will grow our forgotten acts of goodness… The lesser we keep count of them, the better it is for us… The more we forget our acts of goodness, the more peaceful it is for us…

Neki kar aur daria mein daal…




 

Let others complain… That’s their karma. Let’s drop our complaints… That’s our dharma.

 

 

GERALD D’CUNHA

 

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