About a year back, there was this Essay Competition at my son's school for Class-7 CBSE. The Annual All India Essay Writing Event was presented by Chandra Mission in collaboration with the United Nations Information Centre for India and Bhutan (UNIC), conducted by the Sahaj Marg Research and Training Institute (SMRTI) in commemoration of the International Day of Youth.
To help him prepare for the essay, I first gathered several tidbits from internet, books and media. My son and wife gave shape to it. Then we provided a final touch-up and some cosmetic trimming. There was a limit of 700 odd words for the competition so that was also a bit of challenge. His submission got selected at the school level and was sent to Delhi. Here it is for everybody's reference.
Give Love Get Love
How does peace and friendship in society benefit the individual?
What you give, comes back to you ten fold! Love is an expression of all that is good and balanced within an individual, and as a result of expressing it unsolvable differences disappear. The giving of love is therefore the gaining of love. “Give Love, Get Love” is the best principle the world needs to adopt because it helps to spread harmony and bliss, it prevents hatred amongst people, and it allows the people in the world live as one family. “All my life I have had a choice between hate and love, and I chose love, and now I'm here,” said Film Musician A.R. Rahman after winning an Oscar Award.
Peace and friendship are the seeds from which the love-tree grows. We should be kind and helpful toward others. It will promote peace and friendship in our social environment. When we are good to others, they will also be good towards us. If a student in a class is good to other students and is polite and kind, others will also behave in a similar manner with him or her. If the student is rude and selfish, nobody will help him or her and he / she will only make more enemies. It is very important for us not to make enemies. Man is a social animal. We need each other's help. Giving love and respect to others will ensure that we get the same in return. Nobody gains from hatred. It is especially true for today’s youngsters who spend their time in unnecessary fights and quarrels. Any situation can be resolved by discussion. Hence “give love and get love”. It is the secret of the successful people. Giving love to others will only benefit us and make our life successful, happy and peaceful.
Peace starts with one’s self, and over time it spreads. “A smile is the beginning of peace”, said Mother Teresa. Proverbs say “A soft voice is the sound of peace”, and “In acceptance, there is peace”. We can make a peaceful society by courteous smiles at every opportunity with people around us and by using a soft and humble voice while talking to them, and by showing acceptance to each others’ thoughts, preferences, lifestyles, etc. We can confidently say that international peace starts at every little society or neighborhood. Today we have conquered distance due to the “communications revolution”. We are no longer living as isolated individuals. Our activities and thinking now involve not only the society and country we belong to, but the whole world. The dream of world peace can only be realized by refining the individual awareness to spread love and we will get back lots of love in return.
The world has become a small place because there are lots of ways people can make friends and have access to each other. Friends in the living neighborhood spend time together in the evenings and holidays to play some sports or games, to discuss many topics of common interest, etc. Almost every human being in this world has one or more friends. Many friendships start at the school. Some friendships start in the neighborhood where we live.
A friend in need is a friend indeed. Good, long-term friends enable each other’s welfare, prosperity and success by sharing and caring for each other. Greek philosopher Plato said, “Friends have all things in common”. His student, another Greek philosopher, Aristotle said, “Without friends no one would choose to live, though he or she had all other goods”.
To have good friends you must be a good friend, same as “Give Love, Get Love”. Good friends…
1. Listen to each other;
2. Don't put each other down or hurt each other's feelings;
3. Don’t judge each other;
4. Help each other solve problems;
5. Give each other compliments;
6. Can disagree without hurting each other; etc.
Political leader K Kamaraj had a friend who had helped him a lot on many occasions. Later in life when Kamaraj came to know that his friend was addicted to drinking habits, he avoided his friendship. Kamaraj thought that such a friend with bad habits will not aid a peaceful social environment around him and so he dropped that friendship.
People should also learn to control bad temper and learn how sometimes, the things we say actually, hurt the people we love. You can put a knife in a person and draw it out. It won't matter how many times you say sorry after that, the wound will still be there. A verbal wound is as bad as a physical one. Instead, giving love to a person would make him also to reciprocate it. As a result it multiplies manifold. Eventually the society and the individuals in it will reap loads of benefits like happiness, success and harmony.
This self-centered world will be enveloped with the non-polluted air of friendship and peace with the spread of love and affection sprouting from each individual.
“Give Love and Get Love” must be the main ingredient of a tasty life.
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Raj, Very true in this man-eat-man world. This is becoming truer in Sales also. Earlier sales people were called "go-getters". In Tamil, we typically say, sales people are ones with, " Kazhuthula Tie, Kaila Pai, Vayila Poi". That was because, sales was thought of as process of talking a lot and convincing other people. No longer or it was never at all ! Sales is a process of creating value to a customer more than the amount he pays you as payment, by touching his/her lives, with a rapport that freinds share. So if you approach sales, as "GO-GIVES" than "GO-Getters", the whole dimension changes. We are all go-givers with our friends, children, parents and with whoever we share a rapport. Our inner motive is to wish good for them, and in that process some of our ojbectives also get done, as a by product. So lets give more....Go-Givers sell more - GANESH
ReplyDeleteWah Ganesh! Appreciate it.
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