We generally approach things from three points of view. First one is inanimate approach, which mainly deals with the lifeless objects. They obey certain properties like physical chemical properties. We can predict their behavior, derive postulations, formulate a law, do some calculations and it can be fixed.
Another approach is materialistic which include profit and loss. Here everything is counted on the basis of profit and loss. Like You do this to me and I will do that. I have done this to him so I will definitely get that . I have helped some body and in return I expect him to help me etc. In that approach we often use those lines like “Everything pays off. Nothing comes to you unless you pay. As you sow so shall you reap etc.”
The third and the most important one is humanistic approach. In this case
every estimation fails. The most important element that changes from person to person is the behavior. We can’t predict their behavior, we can’t postulate a law, we can’t put a formula because along with physical and chemical properties, along with some give and take mechanism, there is a large force that acts on human is the emotional quotient.
We can even forgive a thief when he is beaten publicly, who used to steal contineously from your house and is caught redhanaded. This is humanistic approach. Logic says the thief should be punished but……..
we sometimes could not forgive a friend who somehow ignored some phone calls but at the same time plead for a docoit and rehabilitate the same . And this is how it works.
Static matter doesn’t have the attributes like happiness , sorrow, satisfaction, hatred, jealousy, etc. In other words only human mind is prone to these attributes and that to in different proportions. We can’t even predict the percentage of those qualities.
To some extent It is also correct that everything pays off. For example if you helped someone then you are bound to get help from someone. We always confuse, the someone of former must not always be the someone of later . We expect an equal and opposite reaction like matter and it hardly happens . Act pays off not the person.
The pleasure of giving is always long lasted than recieving. I always believe that when you want to give, God will always create an oppertunity and make yourself capable of giving.
Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
Life is life after all. Whether the approach to life is inanimate or materialistic or humanistic, it goes on. But it is the approach which makes life beautiful or ugly. It is in your hands.
