Xpressions
Credit.....
by Pawandeep Singh
Deep inside our human hearts
we have a desire to reap rich dividends even out of the most
trivial of our occupations. Be it passing a smile to a stranger
or doing the most difficult favour to our beloved friends.
Everything is fine till our relationships enjoy the spring of
warmth and affection, but the moment the tribulations begin we
humans start asking for the interest that our activities should
accrue according to our own valid mathematics.
So when the complicated balance of our accounts
goes haywire, we are knocked off our cosy bed and nearly go
berserk asking for that credit which we think we deserve. We
start believing in the absoluteness of our right to recognition
and suddenly the man who was a quiet and pacifist being all
along is transformed into a war-mongering politician. Let’s
analyse how to rid ourselves of the wrong notion of recognition
or credit.
The answer to this seemingly difficult exercise
lays in the realisation that credit or recognition is not a
man-made commodity. And for the very same reason it is imprudent
to seek it from those who themselves clamour for it. No man can
recognise another's work or job, for the worth of one's work is
an absolute that has its own existence, whether or not it is
recognized.
Countless humans were responsible for the
revolutions that we today admire and countless were those who in
some way contributed to the thoughts of Newton and Einstein.
Does anyone have the capability to reward these anonymous men
and women? None. And that’s the answer to the riddle. No man can
value work or art or as a matter of fact, any intellectual
creation in the world. This is precisely because the arbiter of
all our deeds is the Almighty Lord who gives credit and
recognition as he deems necessary.
Disclaimer : The views
expressed in the articles are author’s own views B’Cognizance or
IIITA is not liable for any objections arising out of the same.
The matter here is solely for academic use only.
B Tech, 5th sem, IIITA
I am no preacher or saint but I always feel that one should
dedicate one's activities to the Divine Power that created us
for only He can judge us and He alone can give us that elusive
golden egg called “Credit”.