The cost of doing The Right Stuff ...?

 

If you are up to something good, why there are a thousand obstacle in your path and 99% probability of failure? If you are up to no good, why it is so easy and almost all the time achievable?

Once I was taking an aptitude test for one of the major IT companies in an open campus. There was a guy sitting opposite to me, who I barely knew. When the aptitude test was about to finish, this guy asked me to show my answer sheet and I did because I was pretty confident that I am not going to get through and I did not get through the test but that guy did.

When I decided to take care of stray dogs, almost everyone in the neighborhood was angry with me. Fortunately, I am always angrier than them so they really couldn’t stand up against me. Good for the dogs. I still had to go through a lot of shouting matches with people I didn’t know. In 2 years, I have seen 15 puppies and 3 adult dogs dying, even after caring for them day and night. All those dogs were my source of happiness. In this world, this how you get paid when you love and care for someone.

I used to be a very adjusting person, when I was away from home living in hostel, I realized girls were ready to walk all over you if you were nice.

I am an INFJ and I can easily empathize with people; sometimes this has made me stand up for people I don’t really care for. It has happened to me so many times that I started a fight for someone and I continued fighting for that someone even when they left the fight and I became the bad person. I sabotaged my relationship with people I was fighting with.

People with fake smiles and sweet talk, no one really likes them but still they are surrounded by people. However genuine and authentic people are boring, no one pays them any attention.

How many times it has happened that you gave people a favor but when it was time to return that favor, they just couldn’t do it.

We have been always taught we should be kind, we should empathize with others, we should be compassionate but are these qualities really worth it. Do they ever make you successful in your life? How many successful people do you know who truly possessed these qualities? You can be kind and compassionate after reaching your goal but your journey doesn’t need these qualities.

Do you get a promotion for working hard or do you get a promotion to make everyone believe that you worked hard?

People just don’t like it, if you are a better human being than them. First, they will complement you for your kindness, then they will say you are crazy because you care too much.

As you grow up, similar incidents have happened to you so many times that you feel detached, you don’t want to care for anyone except yourself. You really don’t know who is your friend and who is your enemy. Everyone out there is ready to take advantage of your good heart. Helping people may make you feel good for a short time but what effect does it have over you in a long run? It may make you feel good about yourself for a while but is it enough? Don't you expect the same compassion and empathy from others? Doesn't sometimes you are left feeling exhausted doing the right stuff without being paid off?

Do you believe in Gandhigiri? Do you think if you clean after someone who is constantly spitting, they would stop it? I think this country would have been really clean if that happened.

Do you believe in Karma? Do you believe what goes around, comes around? Have you ever seen that happened? How many times people have screwed you over and you thought someday they will suffer for it? But when the day finally came, did you care? Did it give you the satisfaction you needed? Did the other person know, what they were suffering for? How the Karma is justified if above questions are not answered.

May be what we think is right, is wrong and what we think is wrong, is right. May be there is no right or wrong. May be the world doesn’t work the way we thought it did. May be not having conscience is not so wrong.