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I remember
the moment I became a man. It was not an action that determined that. Rather when I realised: “Life is larger than I.” I came to understand that my actions and decisions have an impact on my fellow man. Sometimes the best thing to do is also the hardest to confront. The only reward often, the mere knowledge that it was the right thing to do. If one could disconnect yourself from all around you, you could consider only yourself. However, you would be an unhappy man. You would undoubtedly live alone. We attempt to consider others and expect them to do the same. It is mankind’s silent accord. Love, care, respect, commitment and peace rest on this weigh point. Dismiss this accord and you’re sure to find upset. A mere consideration for the other is not enough, for we expect the measure of it to be equivalent to ours. Relationships have crumbled, because of this undue silent expectation. How preposterous is it, to imagine that one can measure another’s intent? The variables to this computation are without end. How absurd is the unspoken expectation then? |
| By : Thys Groesbeek |