How Good Are You?
“I am bad and that’s good, I will never be good and that’s bad, but if that little kid likes me, how bad can I be?” -Quote from ‘Wreck It Ralph’ Are you a good person? How good are you? What defines your goodness? What are its parameters or what is the scale that measures the goodness of someone? Have you ever thought about these questions? I know you haven’t but I did. I have observed that the goodness of a person is always relative. It always needs a reference. There is no set scale for measuring someone’s goodness. Most of the times it depends upon the behaviour and the attitude of the person in question, towards the observant; and in other cases, it is in comparison to someone else. All this happens because we form a perception of someone based upon their outer habits, in our minds and then we are stubborn enough to resolutely refuse to come out of it. We ‘presume’, and that is where the whole problem starts. Our presumptions do not let us to think clearly and l...