An Awesome Responsibility

An awesome responsibility: 

what an awesome responsibility we each have, everyone of us, having the power to be kind and contribute to the collective happiness of the world. And this isn't an overwhelming task at all, no, it's simply micro actions done with hardly a notice, friendliness done on a daily basis. 

it's easy really. 

so why is this our responsibility? 

because we're able to.

that's the only answer, we're able to be kind by choice as well as possessing an innate wish for the well being of others. It's Darwinian, survival of the friendliest, that we thrive through cooperation, not just within family or ever community, but with the environment as well, seeing the world ourselves as belonging within an ecological whole. Charles Darwin never actually stated the theory of survival of the fittest, it was actual a phrase attributed to Herbert Spencer and those believing in "social Darwinism" as an attempt to justify their stance on racial superiority.  Darwin himself put forth the idea that cooperation and friendliness was far from a social construct, but a deeply ingrained survival instinct. 

with this we could rightly say that it's our responsibility to a well ordered society to be kind, an awesome one indeed, that are friendliness has a far reaching influence past a simple courtesy. Yet more immediately so, it simply feels good to be kind, knowing that we've contributed even a little bit of joy to another, brought forth a smile, or eased however slightly someone else's burden. 

and it's easy enough to do. 

for me, it's a matter of relationships, seeing myself as being in relation to the entire world, inter-dependent upon the well-being of others as well as the environment. When the great sage Ramana Maharshi was asked by follow on how we should treat others, his answer was concise and full of meaning - "there are no others" was his reply. Imagine of we took this truly to heart, deeply so, and lived our lives from this expression. With this in mind it's easy as ask how we  ourselves would wish to be treated, and then to simply turn this around as a gift to everyone we meet. 

to the entire world. 

an awesome responsibility. 

but it's the easiest thing to do.

just by being kind. 

~

Peace, Eric 

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