Mike was moved to help after observing the level of desperation manifested by a young mother. Her husband had died leaving her with four children, and without a substantial source of income in Nigeria. The economic situation in Nigeria is already tough for working families that single parents without stable income may likely fail. Though Mike facilitated the young widow’s gainful employment, he could not help all other people in an ill-structured society. Yet, he gets fulfilment, that internal voice of self-appreciation, whenever he remembers the widow or her children.
Nature is crudely filled with untamed tendencies and difficulties like hunger, sickness, scientific and technical limitations, greed, ignorance and fear. Human fulfilment rises from contributing to reducing the suffering and difficulty for humanitythrough different means. This contribution is marked by an openness to multiply your good effect for more people, not just family and friends. Difficulty in bank withdrawal queue solved by ATM, sicknesses by drugs, social injustice by socio-political reforms, etc.
Many creationists believe that, at creation, each human being received some degrees of creativity for managing nature for the society. All humans have some genius, which they have to discover, develop and use in making impact in the society. Eventually, humans are appreciated, condemned or neglected based on their contribution to the development of nature for human society.
Apart from the external or social appreciation, an internal voice with a subtle feeling of explosive joy appreciates humans when they respond to humanity. This type of internal appreciation occurs when people selflessly contribute to the reduction of human suffering in the world. This is the irreplaceable feeling that fills the emptiness of human life, giving meaning to life and filling the mind. This internal voice of appreciation, which springs up on its own, is referred to as conscience by religious people.
Some of us rarely hear that internal voice of self-appreciation, since we rarely work for humanity. Instead, we try to replace the internal voice of self-appreciation with external voices of praise from friends, fans, sycophants and entertainers. Without that internal voice of self-appreciation, the inner life becomes too empty that we constantly seek actions to fill our minds. We eventually occupy our minds with: songs, images, chats, games, sleep and others. We hover from place to place, website to website, in order to fill up the emptiness of our minds.
It may seem that fulfilment (the internal voice of appreciation) is unrealizable given different social and economic factors.
- We do not have enough of the desired resources for helping humanity.
- Self-underestimation: we feel we cannot eradicate the whole problems. So, why try?
- People may not show enough appreciation for our good works.
- We may even end up in trouble for helping the wrong people.
- The beneficiaries may not understand the value of what you are doing, and thus resist you.
- They may be selfish and want to take advantage of you.
Despite the difficulty and uncertainty in these contributions, humans will ever seek it, as the healthiest recipe for the soul.
- Everybody has something to give: ideas, publicity, teaching, money and many others.
- You do not have to finish all the work: Just begin the one you can and encourage others to join the pool for continuity. Some researches and works span 200 years because some people contributed their quota and handed over before their death.
- You do what you have to do because of who you are (becoming), and not just depending on their appreciation.
- There may be some risks in helping out, yet it is still better to help out and experience life than miss the opportunity for fulfilment.
- Even if they don’t understand, you explain to them gently
In Nigeria, most of the cases requiring actions for fulfilment are linked to government policies in Nigeria. The situation of poverty and hunger, despite abundant human and mineral resources is linkable to social organisation. Thus, it becomes difficult to truly sustain any help rendered to people in a volatile environment.
No one does evil because it is evil, but because they are conditioned to think it is good. Our work is not to condemn those who did evil, but to demonstrate to them the benefits of virtue in real life.