Doing something is better than doing a great thing

Great Thing 1 :

We spend thousands for our shoes/dress and we are happy to discuss about it with our friends.

But we either do not give or we think more to give Rs.5/- to a poor girl/boy begging for money. We speak about logic here or blame the person who begs in the traffic.

Just take a simple scenario, we purchase a shoe for Rs.2000 and only the dealer and we are happy about it.

If we provide Rs.5/- for a person on a daily basis for 400 Days, we would had spend 2000/-.Here we will be able to provide Rs.5/- for that person daily for more than a year.

If we do this,
We are not doing a great thing , but we are doing something.

Great Thing 2 :

We claim we have blackberry, N97,etc.,.
We love and care about our beautiful,lovely and costly mobile. We even fight for hours with our friends to prove that our mobile is the best. We worry about the scratches on our mobile for days.We use technology, we browse through our mobile for downloading games, for checking ticket availability, etc.,

But we do not even have time to look at a human/animal on the road, hit badly. We speak about logic here and blame the person or blame the animal.

We do not use our costly mobile here to browse and get the emergency number and call for help. We forget about our mobile here.

If we do this then,
We are not doing a great thing , but we are doing something.

Great Thing 3:

We speak about other nations and their culture,lifestyle,obedience in following rules and we praise other nations when we discuss about it with our friends. We easily follow their dressing style, we easily follow their accent.
But we only follow whatever is easy to be followed and we claim that we are westernized.

How many of us have followed traffic rules on a daily basis. How many of us cross the road using the Zebra crossing. How many of us wait and allow the pedestrians to cross over.

If we do this,
We are not doing a great thing, but we are doing something.

Not only this, we have so many (some)things to do in our life rather than doing great things.We are getting adjusted for everything that happens in our life and we just blame it on our society.

We believe society is different from us. But we need to realize that we are the society and society means all of us. We follow certain things and we classify it to be good and bad based on what has been told to us and based on what that is followed in the society. This is applicable for both good things and bad things that happens in our society. If we feel something good should happen to our society, first we need to follow it.

If one person change,other one will think about it , follow it and the person will also change. This will not happen very quickly it will take time.
But this will happen only if we change ourselves.

Be the change, you want to see in this world - M K Gandhi.

Think about it !