Every weekend on a Saturday morning I plan to pen down few words but like most of my plans, it goes down untouched. Don’t know if it is because of the tiresome previous week that I had spent at work, or my slowly disappearing passion for writing.
A series of busy days keeps us occupied throughout, to keep up with the materialistic world around, giving us no room to think about doing something unconditional for others. I know many of us would have thought about engaging in charity, however the reason why we engage is different. Most of us including myself have thought about offering things which we ‘do not use’ or ‘can manage without’ to people who are in need of it. ‘Help’ in today’s world has been redefined. Even though it is meant to be void, today, help is expected to return a favour which could be money, person, popularity or in a few cases help is expected to return help itself. We call it as a win-win situation. When was the last time we helped someone unconditional? Have we ever helped someone to achieve something and totally forget about it? If the answer is no, we are missing the essence of humanity. Most of us have the potential to help a friend, colleague or a family member when they ask, however if the act is making us feel that we deserve a favour in return, then it disqualifies the act from being called as Help. It is delusional and in other words be called as a transaction. If you debate that nothing in today’s world is free, well my friend, we receive a lot of things everyday for free, which we fail to realise. A little bit of unconditional extra effort differentiates help from being called as a business and makes us realise the greater potential in us (humans). Unconditional help does not have to be on a large scale, to be organised as a mega event. It can be offered any time, can also be mixed with the everyday routine work that we do. Cooking breakfast for your family every morning just because you want to, travelling miles to offer a ride to a friend just because you wanna see him, getting an extra set of clothes for your siblings just because it makes you happy. There are a lot more things in our life to which we could add some essence through being unconditional. If you know somebody who does it, treasure them. People like them are hard to find in today’s acquisitive world. If you have already been doing it, be happy, your attitude is making a difference in lot of lives everyday!
