The art of giving a fuck

niraj jawale
Sep 8, 2018 · 3 min read

We as a human civilization have come a long way, be it the idea and projects on colonizing Mars or acceptance of LGBT community in our society. The day-to-day chores of us, humans, have always been self-centric and moving forward.Thanks to Oprah who rightly quoted “ To move FORWARD, you have to give BACK”.We hardly get time and resources to do something for others

This world has rich and poor pals as well. But you can't blame rich for being rich right? Like you can’t censure J.K Rowling that she is now a billionaire because people like ‘us’ have watched and read her stories and now shes just contributing a little towards the society. Dude, she had her own struggles and contributing is her or his own choice. Now you can’t even catechize people like Trump for being rich. His family was rich from his great-grandfather's era. Its only in God's hand to give a silver spoon in one’s mouth. Though ones without it too have advanced in material life a lot. Point is, we are engaged in our own self that we hardly find a way for someone and are less bothered about what's going on with them, which is perfectly fine. Because even people like Warren-Gates and recently Jack Ma, thankfully in their 50s, realized that ‘Change is needed for poor and needy’ and started their philanthropic ventures after their retirement.

What I want to emphasize is, we all know that in spite of what we have we still can do a bit towards the betterment of society and I don't necessarily mean monetary means here. It is people like Abhay Bang whose projects like SEARCH and NIRMAN is still igniting the sparks in young minds for the betterment in terms of health, education, sanitation, etc. in underdeveloped regions. Also, there are various yatras like Jagriti Yatra where the whole Train is booked and people (Drs. , musicians, engineers, scientists,etc.) travel across almost all states in India to study, learn, teach, get motivated and connect business to society. These are the ones who believe in giving back. Giving back may include simple acts like sitting in the bank on leave days and helping elderly people in filling their forms or helping old man carrying huge hath-gaddi full of heavy loads. Chuck it now just ask these questions genuinely to you —

Have you ever felt that there is something beyond completing your education and having a safe job?

Have you ever felt the need to do something more in life than just earn money?

Do the inequalities and exploitation in the society invoke a righteous anger in you?

Do you see the difference between performing random acts of kindness and solving a social problem?

Do you get motivated to use your talents to solve the various social, scientific and technological challenges around?

Does the question of finding the Purpose of your Life move you?

If yes. GO FOR IT. Life is short and finding the meaning of ‘settling’ in your life would require another century years to answer that. Altruism doesn’t come to you naturally. It’s the art you have to develop, just like that of giving a f***.

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