When people are considered asset the idea behind is not their body but their intellect, talent, knowledge, and ability. Individuals keep investing in building their value and reap fruits accordingly. Adam Smith strongly endorsed a point of view that – human effort is the greatest asset of all. It has future economic benefit through its consideration as potential. Nations rise or fall through the culmination of human effort, positively (rise) as well as negatively (fall).
Generally we tend to think that one should be honest in putting efforts but it is equally important that we respect the human effort put up by others.
The wastage of resources be it money or human, effort or talent, is a sin. When we waste money, it is visible, if not to the self, surely to others. But when we let the human effort waste, we try taking excuse and get carried away by defending it to be part of practical living (as against ideal living). When we make things dirty knowing that there is a person responsible for cleaning the mess, somewhere we disrespect human effort.
When we know we have to clean the table, we do not let anything fall on/from the table yet sometime if might happen and we start feeling sad/bad about it. On the contrary when we are aware that someone else is going to clean, we tend to become careless and at times it leads to developing a habit of this kind and we do not even realise that it has become part of us.
When we respect or value human effort, we become cautious which keeps warning us not to let our efforts waste. We commit to mindfulness by being responsible, vigilant, and concerned.
When we earn, we value effort, we realise the value of our earning and effort. We feel the pain when our efforts get waste and our earnings get spoiled. Every penny we spend, we relate with the value it serves and when it is through hard and honest effort, it tends to make one more responsible. So, when on/from the table something gets fallen from the plate, we clean it by ourselves.
The sense of responsibility gets built only when we ourselves put efforts. There are few important questions –
- Can’t we respect the efforts of others and abstain from letting anything fall from the plate?
- Can’t we avoid getting into a habit of wasting things, uncleanliness, unhygienic practices even when we do not clean things ourselves?
- Can’t we behave more responsibly even when we do not put efforts, by valuing the efforts of others?
When we waste food, we disrespect the human effort put by others. We fail to respect the person and his/her efforts. We are only concerned when we ourselves put efforts and expect others to value efforts same as we do while we do not respect or value efforts of others. We need to save human efforts from getting wasted.
Expecting and respecting should move together. It is not only important in the above mentioned scenario but in all aspects of life. We need to learn the art of respecting others, their efforts, their emotions, their actions and reactions, and the way they are.
This is just one way of leading a happy and valuable life.
9 thoughts on “HUMAN EFFORTS AND RESPECT”
Dear professor, a good article which tells to observe one’s own behavior which generally we tend to ignore and unknowingly ( sometimes knowingly) disrespect the human efforts. The secret of happiness is monitor self and treat others as good as you treat your self in my opinion which is focused. Very interesting reading. Thank you professor. .
Absolutely true sir
Your write ups always unfold something interesting and valuable and instill some moral values in the mind and heart of reader
A beautifully written article, serving as a reminder to cherish and honor the contributions of others, promoting a more responsible and considerate way of living.
Well said and I totally agree with you sir, but i have a question to put/ask, i just had a thought of it just by reading your article so i am putting it here right now only, may be it will not relate that much to the subject but kindly tolerate.
How to deal with a situation when the expectations that we have from others always remains unfulfilled by them and sometimes their actions shows no respect at all (for eg.- every time telling lies or not stating the exact things in front of you whenever you ask them even though we have given them so many chances), so how to maintain the respecting nature in ourselves in such scenario, as it becomes relatively difficult to feel natural respect and loving nature in ourselves for that particular person.
good to get your opinion. Wait for future posts where I shall try responding to your question.
It is such an insightful write up, very much grounded and portrays resemblance to the reality of human behaviour in general. Thank you for sharing.
A very intuitive article sir. It reminds us how to behave in a normal life by respecting others and their efforts you have thrown light on a oftenly overlooked scenario of not giving appreciation for the efforts of others by putting a simple example of food wastage.
Eagerly waiting for your next vlog.