“Try not to become a man of success but a man of value” – Albert Einstien
Now this is a human who changed the world for once, even went to a point where he almost defined Karma in scientific terms by the theory of relativity.
If I were to chose a few of my mentors, I would definitely name him among a select few – not because he has brains that can challenge the greatest genius till date but he was a man of few yet mighty words.
What is value, and how do you define a value that is concerned with you as a human versus value of an object. To understand value, one must understand the need of value and the concept of evolution with that of greed. We have often seemed to confuse evolution over greed and vice versa.
In a simple way to quote the difference, evolution is using a wooden log to form a wheel – greed is cutting down the entire forest to enforce use of wooden wheels to every one in the village.
Nuclear energy is an evolution, the use of that energy in weapons is pure greed. Today, we have seen people moving in from urban towns to big cities in search of opportunities.
After Indian independance from the British, the country grew slowly yet supported by a strong internal economy until the late 90′s. Times were fast changing with the advent of technology and imports. From simple people who used to believe in the government jobs, we moved on to multi national organizations.
India’s population which was a curse till then became a boon to many corporates. Economical labor then saw an attractive labor market around the globe.
Armed with hard work and pressure to succeed, many ‘baby boomers’ of India (the grads of 90′s), started building their own dreams in their lands or foreign.
Property prices sky rocketed and India was fast becoming a cosmo, a strong one too.
Now as with any upside, we see a larger downside, that’s how nature works unfortunately.
As a side effect, people started finding shorter and easier ways to pull up ways to rake in funds and trick the system. The situation then dries up the gene pool that feeds off the brain wave living.
I am not debating hard work vs smart work, am saying short cut work is too short lived and causes more misery in the future.
The question of value comes when people think about living a life that is the natural way, work with what you feel is a part of your social structure to your community.
Value ultimately depends on how you perceive it but then the famous saying ‘ Do unto others as you would have them do unto you’ , makes perfect sense here.
Value, like true love, has its sense of passion over mundane benefits. The old Indian saying, ‘you are remembered only as long as the last person who remembers you’ just rolls on for a person of value, long after he is gone.
One’s legacy is primarily defined by the value they offer to the society and humans are naturally born to create legacy, lets just do it – nice and fine!
- R
