Skip to main content

Why I Think Selflessness is So Important

As you guys know, or might not know (in that case I would gladly tell you), we live in this planet called Earth. Thing is, we don't live here alone, or with just a few family members, neighbours, or other people who are physically and mentally close to us. We live here with a lot of people. 7 billion in that respect. And because we have more human from time to time inhabiting this Earth, competition grows within us. And with competition, comes ignorance. We feel the need to care less about the people who don't matter to us directly. Individualism.

Most of us are overshadowed by the notion that if we give room to care about somebody else (who is in need of care) then we would have less room for ourselves and therefore we might lose this so called "competition" because our contenders might not think about other people. So then the "logical" move would be to not let that happen because of course we want to win the competition.

But to be honest, I don't see it this way. Being "the number 1" is never a supreme goal to me. I know that it's good to see yourself on the top-step of the podium. I know how good it feels to be able to be seen as a better individual by other competitors. But I also know how it feels to not be able to accomplish that, especially when I've tried so hard. I know how it feels to fall into the horrifying abyss that is failure itself. And it's at that very moment that I hope somebody was there for me to lift me up. Somebody who would rather leave his priorities to be able to just pat me in the back, look me in the eyes, and say "Hey, everything will be absolutely fine. No worries, mate.". And for that very reason, I think being selfless is as important as being inconsiderate.

Our ego is important. We need it to be able to push ourselves towards the limit and un-limit it. But we also need to take a look at those people below us every once in a while. We have to able to empathise for them. And by "people below us" I don't always mean those who aren't as successful as us. It could also mean those who aren't as lucky as us. Maybe they got hit by a hurricane, maybe they just happen to be born in a country that is at war with another, maybe they lost their family members because of something they couldn't control. We need to look out for those people as well. 

I'd like to close-off this blogpost with a quote. A motivational author and speaker named Tony Robbins once said this: "Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment"

Thanks for taking the time to read this.
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Speech Script: Being an Introvert

Hey, Guys. I thought I'll share another speech script today. I used this script when I was competing in a competition held by a Senior High in Bantul, Yogyakarta Special Area. I got 1st in that competition so I think this one is pretty good. And I also wanna say that in this speech script I slipped in a little personal story of mine. So it's gonna be a little hard if you're going to copy it haha... So here you go. I’ve always felt that I’m different compared to most people. At least compared to most students in my school. On break time, they like to gather in groups and gossip about someone or chat about the current trends. I prefer not to. If I necessarily have to get involved in a group chat outside my class, I always try not to do the unnecessary. Not to talk too much. Some people say that I’m shy and weird. Some even say I’m arrogant and antisocial. The truth is, I’m an “introvert”. So ladies and gentlemen, the honourable judges, and my fellow competitors, this morn
1 comment
Read more

Creating Contents and Getting it Out

Whether it's writing, typing, or making videos, getting stories out there into the public is a form of content creating. The stories in the form of words that you write or type and the videos that you film and produce will be seen by people and therefore your content would serve it's purpose. It could be an entertaining story, or something that has educational value, or anything. Content creating is very fun and it could "force" you to keep pushing your boundaries until you find new ones. Personally, I am a big fan of content creating. Youtube videos, blog writings, news, all that sort of stuff. I think it's one of the easiest ways of sharing positivity to other people around the world (although there are definitely pricks out there who uses this opportunity to spread negativity and fear). As long as you're contents are intended to affect people positively, content creating and content sharing would have so many benefits not only to the creator, but also to
Post a Comment
Read more

My Not So Professional Take on Indonesia's Education System

    So recently I just had this little realisation. I was about to call it an epiphany but I thought using that word would be a dramatisation, so for the moment let's just call it a minor realisation. So I live in Indonesia which if you don't know already, is a developing country. We have so many things to be proud about like our astonishingly diverse culture and our unique culinary taste. But education isn't one of those things. Education is far from those things. Like our education sucks. I don't exactly know the reason to that. I mean I haven't done a research or anything but I might have some ideas and hypotheses to the situation. The human resource, the gap between islands Firstly, I think the problem comes from the not-so-advanced framework of the whole education system itself. Indonesia comes 4th globally in terms of population. There's about 250 million of us. And yet, our education system doesn't have enough human resource to support
Post a Comment
Read more