By Nate Feldman
Growing up, we are all taught the importance of being
a good person in our societies and the world as a whole. Ideally, you get these lessons from your
teachers, parents, and spiritual leaders.
However, considering that many people would say they are good people,
and these people are not exactly the same in their behavior, it’s challenging
to find the exact meaning of a good person.
Ideally, a good person is someone who is good to
others. When I say good to others, I
mean they treat people fairly and they treat them with compassion and
empathy. There is the old saying, “Do
unto others as you would have them do unto you.” In other words, treat people the way you wish
to be treated. A good person thinks of
how others are feeling when he or she behaves in a certain way.
You could argue that a good person is also someone who
treats others well and is humble about it.
In other words, if they do something nice for another person, they don’t
boast about it and tell the world how nice they are. A really good person does things because it
is the right thing, not because it will make him or her more popular. However, I wouldn’t say people who do nice
things and brag about it are necessarily bad people. It’s better that you boast about helping
people than boast about hurting people.
But, the better way is to not show off about yourself.
The biggest challenge about defining a good person is
that some people are good to some, but they are not good to everyone. Perhaps they are generous and giving with
their friends, but with people they don’t know or perhaps people from a
different community, city, or country they have different ways of
behaving. I would say a good person has
the same way of treating all people, and not just for who he or she thinks
deserves it. If you really are good, you
try to be as fair as possible with all people you meet.
Of course, being a good person doesn’t mean you don’t
ever do bad things. Good people, like
others, are flawed. Perhaps, on a bad
day, they can get angry at someone. Even
sometimes they shout or are aggressive with others. There might be people who met them who see
them as bad people because they met them at the wrong time. But, this doesn’t mean they are bad
people. They might have had a bad day or
made a bad mistake. So, I’ll say a good
person is one who will admit their mistakes and will work hard to fix them.
Being a good person is not always easy as there are
many temptations that pull us to doing wrong in this world. But, ideally a good person is one who tries
their best to be good to others, and when they slip up, they work hard to admit
their mistakes.
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