NEGOTIATING SOCIAL LIFE

Give and Take

TO be able to lead a respectable life in society there is a necessary condition. And that is you must become someone who is beneficial to others, a ‘giver’, or at least a ‘no-problem person’ as far as others are concerned. Other than these two options, there is no other way for you to lead a respectable life in society. Those who think that there is a third way only go on to create trouble in society and for themselves, too.

Social life is always based on the principle of give-and-take. If you are contributing positively to society, society will regard you with respect. And if you think you are not in a position to contribute anything to society, at least you can become a ‘no-problem’ person for others.

If you become a giver as far as others are concerned, you are helping society progress. Even if you simply become a ‘no-problem’ person, you are still playing a social role—by not placing any obstacle in the progress of society. In the former case you are directly helping society to progress. In the latter case, you are doing this indirectly.

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If you are contributing positively to society, society will regard you with respect.

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But those who are neither givers nor ‘no problem’ people only become a burden on society. Although, according to the conventional law these people may not be criminals, but in terms of the etiquette of human life they are. Although the courts of this world will not sentence them to punishment, in the court of nature, they will be considered guilty of an enormous moral crime.

Learning from the mistakes
of others is the easiest
way of not repeating that
mistake yourselves.