Altruism
The dictionary definition of altruism is
unselfishness –caring for others good before one’s own. And a person with
altruism is an altruist. It is a people we interact with in our daily round are
selfish and greedy, But majority does not always count. Good is always good.
And the really good are never vilified by the bad, on the contrary, they tend
to be better, And that is why, hopefully, there are still altruistic people in
the world. Whatever they do, they do for the well-being of others. History
proudly holds up the biographies of such people. They are very strange human
beings. Mundane happiness hardly ever attracts –or better say attacks –them,
yet they even lay down their lives for other people’s mundane as well as
spiritual well-being. They think for people; they dream for people; they work
for people. Surprisingly enough, they do not expect any return. The altruism
of, for example, Hazard Muhammad (Sm), Jesus Christ, Mother Teresa, Florence
Nightingale, Karl Marx, Lenin, Newton and such other people is unbelievable.
The purport of their teachings is: to be happy in life, become a good spouse:
to be influential in social life, be a good neighbor or leader; but to be a
real human being, be an altruist. Because “We must love one another or
die.”
