By Fatima-Zahra Khanum
What is a principle?
You do not need a dictionary to know the answer to this. You can see a principle in action. For example, if someone wears blue and everyone else is wearing green, you know that person has principles...
A principle comes in many forms and often it involves the courage and bravery to be different.
Without going into the dictionary definition, it is about doing what you feel is right and not following the crowd, particularly if you feel you can add value in a completely different way to what the crowd is doing.
A quote by Mother Theresa nicely sums what principle is from a moral standpoint:
"People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.
For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."
You do not need a dictionary to know the answer to this. You can see a principle in action. For example, if someone wears blue and everyone else is wearing green, you know that person has principles...
A principle comes in many forms and often it involves the courage and bravery to be different.
Without going into the dictionary definition, it is about doing what you feel is right and not following the crowd, particularly if you feel you can add value in a completely different way to what the crowd is doing.
A quote by Mother Theresa nicely sums what principle is from a moral standpoint:
"People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.
For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."
Provided it is just and driven by reason, what actions your principles guide you towards may not always make the outcome seem quantifiable, and at times it may even make you look boring or eccentric, but the qualitative outcome may be greater than you can comprehend. And it may be better then what the crowd is currently going along with.
Reflect!
Reflect!
