Now before you shake your head in
dissent answer the following questions.
1. Are
you a happy person?
2. Are
you happy right now?
3. Have you been happy at any point of time?
If your answer is no to all the
questions you need immediate psychiatric help...glad that you are reading my
blog even in such delicate mental health...but you should first book yourself
an appointment with a therapist.
If your answer is yes to at least
one of the questions...at the point of time when you were happy there have been
several people at different parts of the earth who were suffering from the
worst forms of mental/physical pain...but that did not bother you because you are by definition a selfish person. Accept
it...we all are selfish to some extent. If we cannot dissociate ourselves from
the sufferings of other people we would feel overwhelmed with grief...all the time.
But how selfish are we? We will
get to that but let us take a look at a law first:
The Law: The product of the number of
people we care for and the intensity of our caring is a constant.
Some care for the entire
world...they see people suffer...it bothers them...they renounce domestic life
and devote their time for the betterment of society. But...they do not feel all
consuming love/affection for any one in the world.
Application of law: Number is
very high...intensity is very less.
Some care for a huge group of
people but of course superficially.
Application of law: Number is
high...intensity is less.
Some care for a select set of
people...with pure devotion.
Application of law: Number is
very less...intensity is very high.
Some care for only 1 person...self-love. Let every one around suffer to make this person happy...yet he/she
would not be bothered as long his/her happiness is not compromised.
Application of law: Number being
1 intensity is decadently high.
PS: Apologies for the sermonic
undertones...but let’s not call people selfish any more.
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