We the Homo sapiens living in this tiny planet of Milky way galaxy are selfish, and nobody can deny it. We from an early childhood always wanted more than what we have. Hailliard once said that, The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation. So we the humans staying away from selfishness is impossible. When we were children we wanted more chocolates, toys. During the teenage days we wanted more freedom. When we were young adults we wanted to hitch more girls(or boys if you are a girl), and when we got married and started our family, the selfishness touched new heights. We wanted more money, big house, car, bike, holidays etc. As Robert A. Heinlein puts it, The greatest productive force is human selfishness.
Now some question arises, whether there is enough for all of us (the 6 billion inhabitants of planet Earth)? While we were being selfish and satisfying our needs and wants what the rest of the world was doing? Well in short we can said that nobody thinks about others. Everyone always looks out for themselves. It does not matter to us if half the world is not getting a single meal a day, if 456 million Indians are earning less than $1.25 a day, if farmers are committing suicides, if children below the age of 14 are working as laborers.
Why we are not thinking about others? Why we are so selfish? Even the person who is writing now does not got any answer to these questions. But still when we think about helping the underprivileged people, a feeling arouse in our heart which is more powerful than any other emotions that we have experienced in our life.
One can easily conclude that without being selfish we can attain something which is more powerful, more inspirational, more encouraging than whatever we have experienced through the selfish means. helping does not mean that we will forget our families and start some NGO in a poor region. Mother Teresa said that, If you cant feed hundred people, then just feed one. So just start from one step. As you will be going forward, you will find that the whole world will be there to support you.
Some unknown author once said that, When I was a young man, I wanted to change the world. I found it was difficult to change the world, so I tried to change my nation. When I found i could not change the nation, I began to focus on my town. i could not change the town as an older man, I tried to change my family. Now as an old man, I realize the only thing I can change is myself, and suddenly I realize that if long ago I had changed myself, I could have made an impact on my family. My family and I could have made an impact on our town. Their impact could have changed the nation and I could indeed have changed the world.
Those people who thinks that they are not good people and It does not matter to them if somebody is suffering. For them there is a quote from Dalai Lama, Basically we are all the same human beings with the same potential to be a good human being or a bad human being. The important thing is to realize the positive side and try to increase that; realize the negative side and try to reduce. Thats the way.
