Enhancing one's individual cause

 

It’s human to be self-centered. Bristling denizens and opaque stalwarts as we humans are. That’s how we have evolved. That defines our approach and attitude to life.

This narrow linearity of our dreams, desires and ambitions is comforting and assuring on the surface. But like all comfort zones it sets up big limitations on what one can accomplish because one erects very strong and high walls between his particular life and the rest of existence. It will be just a peripheral photograph of the lovely broad panorama out there.

If we dilute the boundary by linking our interest with some larger cause—however small that may be—beyond ourselves, we open ourselves to the grace of positive factors that in fact boost our individual ambitions instead of limiting them.

For example, suppose you are fighting for success in business, politics or elite jobs. If you link your fate—the success that you want to achieve—with someone needy, let’s say some bright student from a poor family, or a special child from a needy family and decide to support that child—however small the monthly amount might be—you broaden the horizon of your personal endeavor.

Now you are not walking on a razor-sharp individualistic line. A unique credence blooms in the orchard of your private project. It’s as good as walking on the sacred sands of the cross-cultural path of humanity. You are walking on a nice broader path involving love, ambition, kindness and altruism.

By linking your hard work with the fate of some disadvantaged child, you become a greater creator than what you would have been if you had just thought about yourself only and thus limited the input-out equation strictly to your fate.

So pursue your ambitions as much as you can o thou tactical genius. That’s your right. But you have a duty to your true version—your larger self. And that duty is to walk on a broader path instead of the knife-edge of strictly personalized interest.

So slog hard, earn money, set-up empires, become a big shot. Go for paramount search in disused quarries with your own self-created striking nuances. No problem. But as you invest your soul in your project (input), link the process to some poor fate (by promising to yourself that you will be giving this much money or support to help that disadvantaged fate).

It’s my word that the output will be so much that even after deducting the charity amount you will still make big profits.

Favors federated to those more near to ground than ourselves fetch many direct-indirect benefits. This is no sterile lesson by a traditionalist. It’s herbal soup prepared by a conscience-stricken chef for the nourishment of soul.