TO BE A GOOD PERSON
WHAT IF RIGHT AWAY WILL I DIE?
With time, when I am driving car with somebody e.g. along the motorway such a horrifying thought is catching me: and what if just now will an accident happen? What my closing words would be? How they recall me other, friends and the family? Did I attain happiness in the life?
Because after all such an accident, that is the second! In a flash you are going for yourself normally, and in second you are losing consciousness and only what you remember, it is this shock "what happened?", and at least this way for myself I am depicting it.
ARE YOU A GOOD PERSON?
Still rushing along this motorway I am asking myself also an other question: would I die with the awareness that I am a good person? Only just it actually means "to be a good person"? What definition is and generally speaking will it be possible somehow to define it?
Because what for yourself do you think, when you hear that somebody was a good person? What your first association is?
WHAT IT FOR YOU IS MARKING "TO BE A GOOD PERSON"?
Some to these words are reminding themselves people which are giving billions back for foundations and charity other organisations. Thanks to their money many institutions can function, to develop and to help the needy. Other will think about devoting persons entire one's life in order to help poor: for missionaries working in Third World countries, for volunteers slogging away for the other job in hostels
And what I for myself am depicting when I can hear "it is a good person"? I am admitting, that for me mainly in front of eyes such an old man is standing up / the old lady which is helping everyone surround, is always "as good as gold" and is demonstrating the huge patience in the relationship to other. He thinks mainly about other, about how he can make them happy, is putting someone's needs above own. But whether it in order to appropriate definition? Whether simply naoglądałem oneself for much television in the childhood?
Because whether by chance comprehending a "good person" isn't too often exaggerated to large osiągnieć and total, 100% of sacrificing oneself for other and of forgetting about oneself?
Because whether the good isn't a case boundless? Are not only the altruist giving his wealth away to children in Africa, but also the driver of the minibus going away which will be stopped a good, because can see that you are running? Or whether isn't a good of theses person which will smile to you in the tram, seeing your nasty mood? Or help to mum with the dinner.
In my opinion, if only to be good persons we not have to commit great acts, will often be enough the ones tiny which for us are a trifle, and for somebody else - priceless.
RETURN TO REALITY
Then again I am getting back to reality, then again I am on the motorway and then again I can see rushing cars on both sides. However now I am already calm, because amongst billions of questions without the reply, I could answer myself "yes" at least on one from them: am I a good person?
Because good persons, it not only great altruists, but also ordinary people like I and you.