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How do we make the most of what we can actually achieve?
We may think that there is no destination. And maybe that's true. But another truth is that we can always define how we present ourselves and how we present ourselves and treat others.
To this I can say that we must set the table in the best way.
Has anyone ever managed to be nice, or to have a friendly word, easily and simply, for someone who doesn't treat us or who hasn't treated us well? It's possible, I know. But it's certainly not done lightly, and much more often, it's not possible at all, if the other person has done something to us that we feel deeply about.
So let's look at the problem from the other perspective. If we can't, or if it's very difficult for us, to be nice and kind to someone who hasn't treated us worthily, how can we think that not doing so for those around us can bring us any benefit, or even joy from the other person?
The basic principle of one of the Laws of Physics - the action-reaction pair - dictates this.
We must see the true power of our actions, however small they may seem to us, in the response we can achieve from the outside. But we shouldn't think that just because we do “good deeds” that we should receive the reward for them. Life isn't like that. If it wasn't, and if it always was, what would be the point of the institutions that defend us when we've been wronged?
And if we think we should act in the same way as others, how would that be better for us? In an increasingly "eye for an eye" society, will it lead us to a blind humanity?
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