Saturday, September 02, 2006
Helpfulness
Good morning,
Helping others is helping oneself.
Helpfulness is one of man's great assets,
To be able to help others is blessedness.
What is a man when he has no one to help ?
How does man live when there is no help ?
Helpfulness enlivens a community and buoys it with vibrancy.
Without helpfulness, we are like hermits, each living in our own niche.
What would one have, and what progress would there be, then ?
Can one person do everything, even with all one has, from where ?
What is gotong royong, a term in Bahasa Melayu ? In the days of old, when the Government was not reaching out to the rural areas, how did the villagers get their access to heavy transport. They rallied together and put in their own efforts, and they levelled the path which became their road.
" No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of ....." so said John Donne.
Helpfulness is the key to one's own good living. Why do we get employed ? To do so is to help the employer to do things to help others. Why do we perform a service ? When we take reward out of the equation, we are basically helping each other, no ? In times of depression what do unemployed people do - wandering about looking to do something for people !
When people are well off they do not need help, or so they think. When people are in need they seek help, or to help for a purpose. People's aim is basically to help others to the stage where they do not need to seek help. Helping and needing help is all a matter of the order of the status.
"Help me get a job", this is when one is in need. "It does not concern me", this is when one has got what one needs; but this guy will still need help in many other ways. Even when one dies one needs help, is it not so ?
Could there be people who really do not need help ? What people ? The people most likely not to need help are the farmers and the fishermen ! They can simply live off the land, somehow somewhat !
Have a nice day
Ronald
Helping others is helping oneself.
Helpfulness is one of man's great assets,
To be able to help others is blessedness.
What is a man when he has no one to help ?
How does man live when there is no help ?
Helpfulness enlivens a community and buoys it with vibrancy.
Without helpfulness, we are like hermits, each living in our own niche.
What would one have, and what progress would there be, then ?
Can one person do everything, even with all one has, from where ?
What is gotong royong, a term in Bahasa Melayu ? In the days of old, when the Government was not reaching out to the rural areas, how did the villagers get their access to heavy transport. They rallied together and put in their own efforts, and they levelled the path which became their road.
" No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of ....." so said John Donne.
Helpfulness is the key to one's own good living. Why do we get employed ? To do so is to help the employer to do things to help others. Why do we perform a service ? When we take reward out of the equation, we are basically helping each other, no ? In times of depression what do unemployed people do - wandering about looking to do something for people !
When people are well off they do not need help, or so they think. When people are in need they seek help, or to help for a purpose. People's aim is basically to help others to the stage where they do not need to seek help. Helping and needing help is all a matter of the order of the status.
"Help me get a job", this is when one is in need. "It does not concern me", this is when one has got what one needs; but this guy will still need help in many other ways. Even when one dies one needs help, is it not so ?
Could there be people who really do not need help ? What people ? The people most likely not to need help are the farmers and the fishermen ! They can simply live off the land, somehow somewhat !
Have a nice day
Ronald
# posted by chunmu @ 5:58 PM 
