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Sorry!

It seems to be the hardest word, isn’t it?

This fourth (4th) post regarding my wandering in the wonderland of the human nature, tries to reveal the myth behind why this word ‘sorry’ became hard to share with others and hopefully will reach something.

Strange but true when you hear people complain about their partner who does not care about them; whether they are married couples or close friends, whereas when their partner meet with any stranger, you find it easy to apologise if something went wrong!

In any community, people interact with each other according to a scenario where everybody is trying to maximize his/her share of happiness and minimize his/her share of sadness. In such scenario I think we have two prototypes of people:

• Wealthy People who are capable of accepting the existence of the others in their life;
• Poor People who can hardly accept the existence of the others in their life.

The first prototype, ‘wealthy people’ are the ones with open-minded mentalities, which make them aware about the fact of not living alone. Hereby, they understand that as they do welcome happiness/reject sadness; the others want the same thing too. In this situation, they try to achieve a state of balance between their own needs and other needs in a clever way, which simply means do following ethical guide.

On the other hand, ‘poor people’ are the one with narrow-minded mentalities, who are not aware about the fact of not living alone. Hereby, they hardly understand that their way of gaining happiness might hurt others in case it defects their rights. In this situation, they do not care about the others and treat them in a stupid way, which simply means no following ethical guide.

In the light of this, the words 'wealthy' and 'poor' can be understood in terms personality not in terms of cash money. Hence, you may have a sum of money that make you ‘wealthy’ in the eyes of people but if you step over the others for your happiness, your are really ‘poor’ person, and vice versa of course.

It’s very strange how pride and prejudice shade human nature, however this feeling fades out under the lights of what I’ve mentioned which I always emphasize upon: love is the core of this process because when people love each other they will care and vice versa! This reminds me with one of Prophet Muhammad’s quotes when he (pbuh) said:

Love for your brother what you love for yourself.

In a nutshell, it's up to everybody to select either being wealthy or poor in the light of what I mentioned! So which prototype of them are you?

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