More than just ourselves
- The Tawdry Team
- Dec 29, 2016
- 2 min read
Watching reruns of the ’89 Tiannamen student demonstrations, the echoes of that familiar phrase “For a greater cause than themselves” ring repeatedly. Workers came in support, residents came in defense and the students gave their lives for the hope of a better country.
The in-depth truth to this phrase offers the most compelling reason for the good in humanity, without which, humanity is nothing more than Me, Myself and I’s. Whether it be in chasing fortune, fame or whatever, there would be none greater than the formidable self.
Fortunately, humanity is created with an innate need to heed the greater cause of which at the root of this is goodness, purity and charity. It is a preprogrammed homing chip implanted into our beings, one that offers immense freedom and liberty that goes beyond our own self-interests. Whether it be for that splitting second or days, or months or years… the self sacrifice to the cause wells up other euphoria such as honour and charity.
In itself, the submission to the greater cause is a zero sum situation. Unless we give heed to the greater cause (and give up ALL that matters to us as a person), we will never be able to claim in all honesty, to have taken up this noble cause. Sure, there are more than enough so-called “champions of greater causes” that shout louder than everyone else around about how much they’re giving up (oops… “sacrificed”) for the greater good. But really?? Bollocks! Nothing in their actions show any traces of goodness, humbleness nor charity. By their mere action of claiming thus, they’ve brought out the most despicable of human traits – false modesty, false charity.
It is only through a real sacrifice to the greater cause that humanity kneels to offer a bowl of soup to his starving brother and a comforting hug to her distraught sister. For it still rings true today – “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”
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