To be Inspired
Is Greatness a sum quanta of the positives and negatives in a person. To say the more positive the result is, the greater the person is. Goodness can be measured this way. But Greatness is being devoid of negatives. Theoretically the absence of negatives.
We have in our beleifs characterised many as greats and have been inspired by them. But in Today's media-centric world, the research on every individual's life goes ahead at a brisk pace. Sometimes with unfounded information, some time with solid foundations, there are many allegations on the character of people whom we have considered as greats until then.
This character assasination happens at a pace much higher than mortals can comprehend. I have been inspired by certain people in my life. And the public figures among those have been criticized by the media, by certain books et al. I personally have not been able to answer many of those criticisms. For I personally am not completely aware. Any new knowledge leads to a Re-Orientation in thought.
So what do I do then. Go ahead ditch my love for that character, that person and think he/she was not all that I envisaged. Because any negatives in the character means the person is not great any longer. So until we find people bereft of negatives, we cannot be inspired. But then for every great personality from the world, there would be criticisms and we cannot be inspired by anyone until we read all the sides of the life of that person in all the dimensions.
Now to know a person as great and to be inspired doesnt really need all the character analysis. It is just some catchy inspiring thought from that person. May be other opinions about that person might change, there might be claims for which we might not be able to respond to. But still we can stick to the personality we have imagined and be inspired.
For the world needs role models and by going in-depth we might squander away the very few who quality. Instead of saying No one was Great until now and hence No one can be in the future, we can always model our life on some people we have by ourselves considered as greats.
We have in our beleifs characterised many as greats and have been inspired by them. But in Today's media-centric world, the research on every individual's life goes ahead at a brisk pace. Sometimes with unfounded information, some time with solid foundations, there are many allegations on the character of people whom we have considered as greats until then.
This character assasination happens at a pace much higher than mortals can comprehend. I have been inspired by certain people in my life. And the public figures among those have been criticized by the media, by certain books et al. I personally have not been able to answer many of those criticisms. For I personally am not completely aware. Any new knowledge leads to a Re-Orientation in thought.
So what do I do then. Go ahead ditch my love for that character, that person and think he/she was not all that I envisaged. Because any negatives in the character means the person is not great any longer. So until we find people bereft of negatives, we cannot be inspired. But then for every great personality from the world, there would be criticisms and we cannot be inspired by anyone until we read all the sides of the life of that person in all the dimensions.
Now to know a person as great and to be inspired doesnt really need all the character analysis. It is just some catchy inspiring thought from that person. May be other opinions about that person might change, there might be claims for which we might not be able to respond to. But still we can stick to the personality we have imagined and be inspired.
For the world needs role models and by going in-depth we might squander away the very few who quality. Instead of saying No one was Great until now and hence No one can be in the future, we can always model our life on some people we have by ourselves considered as greats.
posted by Devanathan at 1:39 PM
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