Respect v/s Fame

What is the difference between fame and respect that’s the first question we Indians ask? It is a natural question as we don’t understand the difference between the two.

Respect is when everyone in our ‘galli’ or ‘mahula’ knows us and they also know about the problems (mostly theirs) we have faced and solved. Most of the time we expect a little respect from others after all it’s imbibed in out culture. In the starting when the people start respecting us we feel a little shy but over all we feel great. Gradually it becomes our habit we demand respect for the things we did in past (or maybe our ancestors did it). There is no harm in it but this hunger for 10 grams of respect keeps us from doing anything exciting or even going out of way. We always think what will happen to my respect if I do this or do that. In the end we do nothing and we give it the name that we are strongly rooted to our culture. Our culture was never this all the ancestors questioned everything and probed and then accepted anything to improvise. They never accepted anything blindly. We have reached to the stage where we force respect from the people smaller than us and it doesn’t matter that the person maybe smaller than us in just one aspect and in other aspects he maybe better than us. We belittle every person in our contact just to extract those 10 grams of respect.

Now coming on to fame, it’s the phenomenon where we imprint our footsteps in the sands of time and everyone watches us. The people who have got fame have never craved for any gram of respect. They just did their work and never cared what others thought about them and what will happen if no one respected them. They stayed child like for their full life and even after imprinting their footsteps in the sands of time they always knew that even these footsteps are very small and they will also vanish along with the sands of time. 

Importance of money

Money is very important in every people’s life. Sometimes we give it more importance than our near and dear people and sometimes it becomes more important that the god itself. Money is the reality of our modern life. All people need it and everyone wants it and we are literally running behind money but lot of people like to think that they are not running behind money and try to give a better face to money earning activity.

We need money to buy every single facility of our life. We need money for the basic necessities of our life as well as for better education and better standards of life. We also need money for entertainment and communication facilities which have now become the basic necessities of our life. Money can buy anything. If our any work is not getting completed we can always rely on the power of money to get it completed.

People do many things to earn money like job or business but whatever we do we are never satisfied by the amount of money we earn. We always want it more and more.

It is possible to live life without money but we can’t avail any facilities available to humans. In today’s time even sadhus need money to live their life. All the types of crimes are committed for the want of money and are related directly or indirectly to money. Everyone should earn money and earn enough money to fulfill their needs, wants and desires. It is said by Bill Gates that “We may be born poor as it can be our fate but to die poor is a crime”. People want to become rich very fast they don’t like hard work, patience and planning to earn money. We all can see the life style of the rich and the famous and we fail to see the effort they have put into this. So people try different risky and dangerous ways as short cuts to become rich. It is not a crime to become rich fast but it is a crime if we take wrong ways for this. Most of the people taking short cuts end up in the places they have never imagined.

So money is very important in our life and without money nobody respects us in our society or in our group and in our family also. It is also said that money is a bad master but a very good servant. So we should not run behind money but in this modern age use our intellect to generate new ideas for earning money.