As I wrote somewhere else everything is relative; so our life.
Here I am not intending to discuss the
relation of our life to other animal kingdom or the environment. I would rather
prefer to discuss how our life is related to our fellow human beings.
Before 13 years I bought a residential
plot in a less frequented area. No big houses were seen around. The road before
the plot was in a bad condition. Many residential plots around were unoccupied
and bushy. But I could not wait for someone to join me constructing a house in
their plot. So I cleared my plot, constructed a boundary wall and soon built a
house. After the construction and a few days after living in it, I looked
around. My plot and the house in it have rendered a facelift to the area. The
area around looked more clean and attractive. Soon more people came for
residential plot in that area. The price of plots increased to double and more.
The local governing body repaired the road and new water supply was made
available. Electric power supply changed from two phase to three phase. Better
residences were constructed lifting the appearance of the area.
What was happening?
My residential plot is not a lonely
island. It is a part of the whole wide area. As I cleared the ground, built a
residence and constructed a boundary wall the effect of it was not to my plot
alone. It gave a face lift to the whole area.
I have heard alcoholics claim that
drinking alcohol is a personal matter and no other person need to interfere in
it. But if the statistics of motor accidents in my state is examined, it is
easy to find that more than 90% of motor accidents are caused by alcoholics
under intoxication. Drinking alcoholic is a personal matter, but driving the
car under intoxication is not a personal matter. Killing other innocent people
in intoxicating driving is not a personal matter. I am seeing a lot of
alcoholics getting sick due to alcoholism. Who suffers then? The alcoholics
alone? No. the government has to spend the taxpayer’s money for his treatment.
His wife and children suffers. His friends are troubled. Then is it a personal
matter alone? No.
Nothing is personal, because we are not
an island.
Even an island is related to the water
around.
The money we spend in our village
affects the village.
The car we drive affects the air of our
village.
The money we make and save invites the
bank to our village.
Our demand for good education to our
children causes the opening of a better school which is used by other children
also.
Our life style affects others. Our
presence in the village is one of the reasons for other people of better status
to settle down there.
Our care for the society refines it.
Everybody has followers. We may not find
any one walking after us every day. But everybody has followers. They in turn create
more followers.
We are not alone. We create followers.
So our acceptance and rejections affect
the surroundings. Our dreams and screams affect our society.
We are not a lonely island.
Professor Jacob Abraham
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