You want to drive at full speed. You have a Ferrari at your disposal. You are in the driver's seat. You switch on the ignition, shift the gears and accelerate. But the brakes are on! Vroooom??? Naaaaa! No matter how hard you press the accelerator, you aren't going to move ahead.
The above illustration will explain you a quote I remember. It's a quote which is ingrained in my memory because it is philosophical. The quote goes...
Going through life with a conscience is like driving your car with the brakes on
Now recollect some of the 'achievers' that you have read about or know. They have twisted their morals and values to move ahead in society. Be it businessmen, sportsmen, performers, artists, etc. etc. etc.
Some business examples which are publicly quoted are Reliance Industries founder Dhirubhai Ambani, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates or Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg (who allegedly cheated 3 of his Harvard seniors Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winkevoss and Divya Narendra by misleading them into believing that he would help them build a social network called HarvardConnection.com, while he was instead using their ideas to build a competing product, i.e. Facebook)
Think of the people in your social circle who have made it 'big in life' but are always talked about how they 'worked their way around'.
I do not say everybody does it. I say most of the people choose to do it because it's the easy way to rise up the (economic and/or social ) ladder!
Because of this thing called conscience I have lost few friends because I 'came out clean' to them after a fuck up. Looking at it the other way, I think, maybe, they were never friends at all!
Conscience will help you to be a good human being and will let you have good people around you. It won't help you to make money or rise the ladder in the society we live in. So choose what you want to be.
Conscience will help you to be a good human being and will let you have good people around you. It won't help you to make money or rise the ladder in the society we live in. So choose what you want to be.
To be very candid, I for one want to be a twisted guy, but I can't be! I'm still confused what to choose (because of my conscience. Probably!)
