Doing The Right Thing Always Benefits

There are times when a person doesn't do the right thing in order to gain some temporary benefits and most of the time that person doesn't even intend to do something wrong but he/she simply doesn't understand what do in a particular situation especially when he/she is getting some benefit from that situation but doing the right thing always has its benefits in the long run. I would like to share a story of my childhood friend's father. 

When my friends father was in his teen age he didn't have enough money as he belonged to a lower middle class family and was not educated at all. At that time he use to purchase motorbikes from a different city as they were available for cheap rates there, bring it to his hometown and sell it there to earn a living. After few years when he entered his 20's he rented a small motorbike spare parts shop in a commercial building and started his business, time passed but he was still struggling to make both ends meet. One day the owner of the building died and he had no successors. The tenants who had shops in that building continued their business without paying rent because there was no owner but my friends father despite being uneducated felt that it was totally wrong to continue his business there without paying any rent so he went to the court and informed the court about the situation and deposited the rent in the court so if they may find any successor of the owner they may pay it to him after the transfer of property. He also urged others to do the same but no one listened to him as they were enjoying their business without paying any rent for the premises. The court put an ad in the local newspapers to find any possible successor but no one claimed the property and as my friends father was depositing the rent monthly in the court the court ruled in his favor and made him the owner of the building, all the occupants of the building were shocked and my friends father became a millionaire in a blink of an eye.

Doing the right thing changed my friends father life and fortune forever, had the other occupants also listened to him and deposited the rent in the court they would also have become owners of their own shops but they choose not to and as a result paid the price for it. My friends father despite being uneducated had great sense of right and wrong and what he thought was the right thing to do changed his life and he is a very happy successful businessman now and whatever he earns from that building he give 10% of it for charity on behalf of the deceased owner of the building. This is how doing the right thing always benefit.

Don't Waste Too Much Time Thinking, Just Do

We all make plans, sometimes we plan and act accordingly and sometimes we just daydream about our plans and never act. Daydreaming gives everyone a lot of pleasure but we get more pleasure when we achieve what we desire. Making plans or setting targets for ourselves is good but I have seen some people who just keep on planning or daydreaming but never actually work to achieve those targets which is a huge waste of time and mind. I mean the time spent making plans or daydreaming can be utilized for doing something productive rather than just wasting it doing nothing.

I have a colleague who is always busy making plans about moving abroad and starting his own business there. I know this man for the last six and a half years in these six and a half years not a single day has passed by at work when he did not tell me about his plans and I motivate him a lot to pursue his dreams and even gather and provide him information about things he talk about doing but he never tries to achieve anything at all. This guy is working with the same organization for the last twenty seven years and that’s a huge amount of time and never once tried to follow his heart and pursue his dreams. One day a senior employee of the company told me that this guy is telling his plans to go abroad and all other things ever since he joined the company and I was really shocked to know that. How can a person talk about a particular thing for twenty seven long years and never once try to achieve it? I personally believe that he has wasted twenty seven precious years of his life thinking and dreaming about something that he never made an effort to achieve and now he regrets that when he had time he never tried and now time is not in his favor as he has grown old and has a lot of responsibilities now but still he continues to think about it.

If a person wants to achieve something in life and is passionate about it then he/she should not waste too much time thinking about it and must at least try to achieve his/her aim. Life is too short for regrets and if we waste a lot of time thinking than one day we will regret it but the time will not be on our side. We should struggle to achieve our ambitions while we have the time to do so or else we will regret it later but by then it will be too late and that will be very painful and we will end up cursing ourselves for never trying. So, don’t think too much and just do.