‘WORST ENEMY OF MAN KIND – READINESS TO COMPROMISE’

Among various pleasures a man can think of the greatest is pride arising out of one’s own achievement.  To have that pleasure one must achieve and one must develop a character.

But everyone does not have the same concept of pleasure. There are people who get pleasure in getting some material benefit with whatever means be that.  They can get pleasure out of cheating, stealing and what not.

When we live in society we come across both types of people viz. those who find pleasure in pride and character and those who find pleasure in anything that gives them material benefit.

The strength of our character depends upon what is it that we tolerate and what is it that we fight. 

If we have to lead a rational life we are bound to pronounce moral judgment.  We are bound to say and we should have the conviction to say as to what is right and what is wrong and stand by what is right.  When we don’t do that, when we accept a friend’s or husband’s or wife’s irrationality by giving into it and thus encouraging it to grow, we compromise.  In every compromise you are allowing the evil to grow and suppressing the morality.  In every compromise you are not correcting the evil doer.

Ask a question to yourself.  ‘Are you telling your friend, husband or wife as the case may be that he/she is wrong when you think so.  Are you showing your moral conviction by telling that you would not tolerate from your friend or husband or wife what you think is wrong.  If the answer is no, you are compromising.  When you compromise you are not living to standards expressed by you.  You would go down in your eyes.  You would judge that your judgment is not upto the mark.  What respect you will have for yourself.  How can you live a good life if you don’t respect yourself.

All people who compromise would like to know themselves through the media of others.  They would value themselves from what others think of them than what they think of themselves.

It is better that you are great in your view rather than the view of the world.

The readiness to compromise arises from moral bankruptcy contending that there are no blacks and whites and there are only greys, meaning that there is nothing good and bad and that everything is mixture.

No proper moral code can demand infallibility.  But based on a statement that nobody is perfect in this world, to state that no moral concepts are applicable to any one would be wrong.

The man who does not value himself and lives thinking humility is virtue cannot value anything or any one.