Help others and then only you are leading a good life, said an elderly man to his jobless son. His son was suffering from depression because he never found any reliable friends and relations in his life. The elderly man was surprised that his son joined an NGO and started helping others for free after some months. He started accepting the new sense of purpose that he found in his life. Soon the jobless young man got a job at a well-established firm. He started his job as a junior clerk but came home dissatisfied with his job.
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One fine day, he expressed his displeasure at his workplace to his old father because it took the majority of his time from the day and week. This didn’t allow him to volunteer for the NGO as he was finding it difficult to get up from his bed on the weekends due to lack of energy. His father smiled at him and said that whatever you are doing is enough to have a purpose in your life. The young man was confused because when he was jobless, it was his aged father who encouraged him to lend a helping hand to others.
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However, that formula of happiness or self-worth was challenged by his corporate job which made him a good lifestyle. The old man further smiled and told him that sitting idle was one of the sins that he was doing all these years and that is the reason he was encouraged to volunteer or help others. But now as the young man has a decent job, he was motivated to focus on his work and scale up in his career with whatever time he could get in his busy schedule.
That itself should help him have good self-worth because nowadays people are not doing their jobs properly. This makes things difficult to handle for others. For example, if a bank employee doesn’t enter the bank records and transactions well, it is the customers who suffer losses. So, whatever a job teaches us, we have to do it well and help ourselves in the process.
Just because you are not a volunteer of an NGO or you don’t support social causes doesn’t decrease your self-worth, explained the old man to his confused son. Helping is a noble act but a person can help others only to the extent he can. If he is pressurized to help others and that deteriorated his health, then that is no help but self-destruction. So, accept yourself even if you lack the time and energy to give a helping hand to others because you are too tied up with your own work.
Your self-worth is what you are, what you are capable of, and how much you can achieve in your life with all the resources you have. It need not be compared with others just because others are doing better in their lives. Walk on your own path and work on your self-worth and self-acceptance to lead a happy and meaningful life.
