DOING THE RIGHT THING

I don’t know about you, but do you ever feel like in doing the right thing it normally translates into you losing out. Sorry, have I lost you, let me try and explain this in the simplest of manners. The hardest thing to do in this life or the next is to do the right thing! Question is what does doing the right thing mean? To me it basically means not doing to others what you don’t want done unto you.  Some might argue that if you are not benefitting from doing this so called right thing does is make it right! Question I would ask is this, does doing right need to translate into you gaining from it?

The sad reality is that in doing the right thing you are always more likely to lose out, worse still is that after you’ve done the right thing you’re likely to want to rethink your decision because you don’t benefit. In fact I feel often enough this life of ours, is likely to reward people who don’t do the right thing. It is just messed up because it feels like the baby literally gets thrown out with the bath water on you. True, you could argue that in doing the right thing a feeling of slight regret can be invoked in terms of you doing the right thing, however, this feeling is temporal. The question you need to ask yourself is this, what is more important to you, being rewarded or having a clear conscience?

Honestly, speaking for me I have found my conscience to be more important than the rewards because what is the point of having rewards when you lose sleep over them. When your conscience is not clear it’s basically like living inside a prison in your mind, a prison of your own making none the less. So if rewards are what you after, by all means step on people’s toes and wrong them all the time. But if you want eternal peace do the right thing, your rewards might not come then and there but when they do arrive they will be in abundance and everlasting. As a matter of fact that feeling that comes with it, is one in which you can look in the mirror and be proud of the person reflected in it. Moreover, as a young person what would you want to teach your own kids in terms of right and wrong.