Never yield to that temptation, which, to most young men, is very strong
By: N. George
Worth Noting:
- Human beings are social beings in that they like to relate in one way or the other to each other. They interact not only by supporting each other but also by competing against each other. They do not always do this on bad note that is why you find there are many types of sports happening throughout the year with an aim of interacting with the rest members of the society to evaluate, compare and improve their skills as they try to become like the best competitors of their region.
- It does not look as if it is a big deal whenever you ashamed someone in an attempt to look better than that person in the presence public. The one who has been ashamed will wish if the earth opens up and swallows him alive. The public here will act as fans and will cheer the seemingly winning team in this case the person who is bold enough to ashamed the other. The happening will look more of a drama intended to entertain.
Never yield to that temptation, which, to most young men, is very strong, of exposing other people’s weaknesses and infirmities, for the sake either of diverting the company, or of showing your own superiority. You may get the laugh on your side by it for the present; but you will make enemies by it forever and even those who laugh with you then, will, upon reflection, fear, and consequently hate you. ……… Lord Chesterfield
In his writing in the first century BC Roman poet and philosopher Titus Lucretius Carus also known as Lucretius either coined or repeated the expression what is food for one man may be bitter poison to others commonly phrased as one man’s meat is another man’s poison.
In the society there are all types of people the good, the moderate and the bad. Its composition being our fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, cousins, nephews, nieces, neighbours, age mates, elders or juniors we interact with them at one point in life or the other.
The good people are known for their actions of kindness which impact positively on the people they interact with helping them to move from one glory to a higher one. They derive pleasure by seeing other people benefit in life so they do not require to be persuaded to support others in the right course.
We talk of character assassination which can be interpreted as the malicious and unjustified harming of a person’s good reputation. A lengthy observation at close range at those fond of doing what is hurtful you will conclude that they do not need to be trained by any person to do bad or do struggle to think which pain they intend to subject others to as there are many wrongs in their heads which they are always willing to put into action.
Those fond of either doing good or bad do not care who they are dealing with whether their senior or junior, related or unrelated, strong or vulnerable. Provided they accomplish their mission they feel contented and feel contented with it as a way of life.
When you are a parent, instructor or role model of any kind you need to be careful not only of how you are verbally guiding your subjects but also how you are acting intentionally in their presence as some of them would be eager to take notes of your actions and go ahead to perfect whatever they learn from you. That is why it is likely to find many kind students if their teacher is kind.
On the other hand a ruthless parent is likely to bring up ruthless children independent of whether he directs them to do so or not since they are watching whatever you do and are eager to imitate.
Human beings are social beings in that they like to relate in one way or the other to each other. They interact not only by supporting each other but also by competing against each other. They do not always do this on bad note that is why you find there are many types of sports happening throughout the year with an aim of interacting with the rest members of the society to evaluate, compare and improve their skills as they try to become like the best competitors of their region.
It does not look as if it is a big deal whenever you ashamed someone in an attempt to look better than that person in the presence public. The one who has been ashamed will wish if the earth opens up and swallows him alive. The public here will act as fans and will cheer the seemingly winning team in this case the person who is bold enough to ashamed the other. The happening will look more of a drama intended to entertain.
Upon reflection on the past happenings it is when the purported fans will ask themselves what if they were the ones subjected to the condition which the one on the receiving end was subjected to. That is when they wish that it won’t happen to them but since they have seen who have done it they will be aware that the tormentor know and is able to ashamed others hence try to avoid any situation that may make him to subject them to such a condition.
Others will ask themselves whether there were alternative channels of communication which the tormentor could have used and the reply could obviously be yes then wonder why the tormentor preferred to use the most humiliating method more so in the public.
When referencing who not to emulate the tormentor’s name would hence forth feature strongly due to what he made them to witness.
We have two eyes, two ears two brains and one mouth mind you the mouth has multiple uses among them talking, eating, drinking and digestion some food we need to ensure that we use all the other organs well. Before engaging the mouth we need to evaluate the consequences of doing so and ask ourselves whether we are ready to face the outcome of our actions.
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