MORALS - JUSTICE AND FAIRNESS
Our next big step is to learn fairness and justice the right way, so we never walk over others and they never walk over us. We notice in life some people shine out from the rest without a privileged back- ground. When we investigate deeper, we notice they are always busy - always working at improving themselves - always setting goals and actually doing something active to reach their goals. The greatest amount of poverty comes from poverty of the mind and soul. Lack of will and motivation to rise out of the squalor because it involves constant work. A person does not need to be rich financially to be wealthy. Life is not about material possessions but about emotional satisfaction and success. The person that has succeeded in this life is the one that has discovered who he is and has made himself complete as a human being.......meaning he is still intact at the end of the journey having developed his soul, heart, spirit and mind to full capacity. This does not cost any money......because.....it is all about values and virtues which cannot be bought or sold. Life is like a plant that needs to be tended and watered daily and each moral and virtue we develop needs the same. The way we water it, is to use it every day. What is fair ? On the emotional plane all things come likewise to the rich and the poor....our living environment has absolutely nothing to do with good manners, kindness, fairness or justice. For the person THAT WANTS TO WORK, THERE WILL ALWAYS BE WORK......FOR THE LAZY PERSON THERE WILL ALWAYS BE A LION IN THE STREET AND HE CAN'T GO OUT..... STRANGE, ISN'T IT......THE MAN THAT WILLS AND WANTS NEVER SEES THE LION, BECAUSE IN FACT IT'S NOT THERE. SO WOULD IT BE FAIR FOR ONE TO WORK AND THE OTHER TO COLLECT BY BEING LAZY ???? I THINK NOT !!! It is said that all things come to all people, but most of us don't even see the opportunities BECAUSE WE DON'T LOOK AT WHAT WE DO HAVE AND UTLILIZE IT TO MAKE SOMETHING OUT OF IT. We would rather look at what others have and complain about our shortcomings. To teach a child how to open their eyes to opportunities we start with simple little things, like....something breaks in the house, so we see if we can use it for something else, instead of just throwing it away......not because of the value in money, BUT BECAUSE OF THE VALUE IN THE LESSON....WASTE NOT, WANT NOT. When we need to be fair with others, we treat them like we would like them to treat us, we show consideration, kindness, compassion, understanding without allowing them to trample upon us. We give them the same amount of space, the same ingredients or tools, the same amount of time, the same opportunity, then we are equal. If they then waste it, or sell their tools for drugs, etc, and we succeed and they don't, they must not shout "unfair"...... and then come and leech off another.....they had exactly what we had, but they threw it away and we did not....so we need to explain this as we teach our children not to allow their kindness to be exploited by crafty, deceitful sluggards. True fairness is giving everybody the opportunity to become self sufficient so they don't need to beg from others and degrade themselves. Some will actually starve rather than make an effort and that is very sad, maybe they just need a bit of motivation, become part of something important, some mission that is bigger than their sluggishness. It is a very important lesson to learn young in life how unfair it is for us NOT TO BRING OUR SIDE IN LIFE, WITH EVERYTHING... work, relationships, helping with chores, brining our side. When we learn this and how to utilize and adapt objects and circumstances we will always be able to make it under any and all circumstances, a very, very valuable lesson that becomes useful rather often. ©
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