Craving
for Importance
The desire to be important is the
natural urge of a human being. Everyone wants to be important in his own little
world. After the gratification of your biological wants, you need the feeling
of importance. You wear expensive dresses, buy latest mobile phones and
purchase luxury cars. You build houses bigger than your requirement and furnish
it tastefully. Children want the exclusive attention of their parents. Parents
also feel proud in showing off the intelligence of their sons and daughters.
Wives like to be appreciated for their cooking skill and good house-keeping. In
this male-dominated society of ours, husbands have taken the position of
parmeshwar (God) to feel exalted. They even beat their wives or ill-treat their
in-laws to show their supremacy. You love to give English names to your pets.
Moti has become Monty and Sheru is now Caesar. In jobs and work-place also, you
crave for importance and attention of your boss and seniors. You may have read
a story in your school text book which narrates that a boy meets an accident in
order to get his name and photograph published in the newspaper. All these are
disguised attempts to give you the feeling of self-importance. Cut-throat
competition, jealousy, malice and criticism- all these are also endeavours to
make you more important than others.
There is nothing wrong in it if it is
taken in the right spirit. The craving for importance can be a positive
motivation. If you improve your work performance or accelerate your
productivity, you will get the appreciation and admiration of everyone. And
praise is the most precious and prized possession which even saints can rarely
deny.
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