Hello,
I am Abay and this is my first blog. I hope I will continue doing so...
What I want to write about now is the concept of being good mannered. Good manners are generally the appropriate and sufficient responses to a certain situation. I believe good manner is the diet of the mind, it brings internal peace, self-confidence and mental satisfaction, which obviously most of us has missed .
But what really is good manner and how is it presented or witnessed in our daily life?. There should be no confusion about what the origin of good manner is in my case it is the Holy Bible, may be different for others. The Holy Bible labels certain actions and ways as appropriate and good mannered and others as bad manners. For instance, the it refers that we must respect our parents, do not lie, do not steal, do not cheat on loved ones... it labels those as good manners and their opposite actions as bad manners.
In the world we are living now, it is easier to follow bad manners than good manners, why is it?. The main reason I think is our way of life, the way that says we should only take care of ourselves and not think about others, the way that says we should be selfish and not sharing, the way that says we should always look for short cuts in life on the cost of others...the more we evolve, the more we are getting far from the good manners, which at the end are the only things that matter. We are thought in school, community, family...that the world is scarce and we should put our interests first run for our advantage no matter what it does to others, or else we are going to be left behind and lead a miserable life until we die. Is this really true?, well it depends on how you see it. It is really clear that those people who has done all the above things, cheat in life, steal from others(it has many contexts, not only physical), disrespect others...are not living the satisfying life that they were told earlier they will. This bad manners are also visible at a country level, countries going to wars over trivial cases, abusing other nations, robing nations of their own resource...
I am really sad that we live in a world that is basically built in hate, racism and selfishness,it is the choice we made for ourselves, why do we prefer to hate each other while it is easier to live with love?, why is it that people pay their dear life over meaningless wars?, why?... can't we just get along good?
I say the we should wake up and realize the "unnecessary" cost we paid, both in life and resource and "CHANGE", be better than what we were, really believe in dialogs and discussions instead of tanks, and missiles, learn to trust each other on both personal and national levels, try to be there for others in time of their needs. By doing so, we get the most prestigious award God has to offer, INTERNAL PEACE.
This is all possible by just simply shifting the course of life and our actions from bad mannered to the good mannered !, both in personal and nation level, it is POSSIBLE!!!
