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Welcome to Bloggershome91, today we are going to discuss A Life Lived Meaningfully Benefits All.
The welfare of a society depends on many factors, ranging from genetics and neurobiology to sociology and economics. But there are truths to be known about how a society should flourish. Whenever we think of the welfare of others, questions of intentions, decisions and actions, arises.
The moot question that bedevils every thinker is: How to live a meaningful life, which in turn leads to happy living? There are more questions: Is individual happiness on personal parameters such as good health, power, money and comfortable living enough to make society better? If personal health, wealth and ease related to happiness are not meaningful, then what in reality make one`s life meaningful to society?
When wealth acquisition is motivated by greed, it becomes a negative activity. Deceit is linked to immoral /unethical behaviour. Though power and money have been handy always, yet, happiness eludes most who hanker after selfish gains at the cost of societal good.
Welcome to Bloggershome91, today we are going to discuss A Life Lived Meaningfully Benefits All.
The welfare of a society depends on many factors, ranging from genetics and neurobiology to sociology and economics. But there are truths to be known about how a society should flourish. Whenever we think of the welfare of others, questions of intentions, decisions and actions, arises.
The moot question that bedevils every thinker is: How to live a meaningful life, which in turn leads to happy living? There are more questions: Is individual happiness on personal parameters such as good health, power, money and comfortable living enough to make society better? If personal health, wealth and ease related to happiness are not meaningful, then what in reality make one`s life meaningful to society?
When wealth acquisition is motivated by greed, it becomes a negative activity. Deceit is linked to immoral /unethical behaviour. Though power and money have been handy always, yet, happiness eludes most who hanker after selfish gains at the cost of societal good.
For happiness, one needs to focus on the present, whereas for being meaningful, one has to think more of the present, past and future. Happiness is fleeting with time, while meaningfulness of life lasts longer. Happiness is what others give to us but giving to others makes one’s life meaningful. So drawing meaning from a larger context, doesn’t looking beyond oneself make one’s life meaningful and happy?
Work done with selfish motives is inferior by far to the selfless service rendered, that is, karma yoga. Selfishness is always thinking about the end product and to create wealth without hard work. When faith replaces doubt, when selfless service eliminates selfish striving, there is scope to find happiness and peace.
Power and wealth have been viewed as both a blessing and curse; as a prerequisite of virtue and as an embodiment of vice; as an expression of merit and of fault. Hence not only is the history of power and wealth contentious, but it is also intimately bound with moral evaluations. These differing evaluations indicate a range of divergent cultural judgements.
Power and wealth have a central place in political and economic vocabularies. While there is perhaps a core linkage with the notion of resource, the terms resonate fleeting positive emotions that with happiness come along with a deeper sense of meaning and purpose in life, and these emotions and sense of meaning must reinforce societal stability. In essence, the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of a nation depend on how meaningfully an individual contributes to societal welfare.
Ahmad Saad
