THE IDEA OF GOOD.

My former article was about life and its ‘box’. It was also about the expanding of our life box by learning, adapting and improvising life.  Now, my second article is about understanding the goodness of things.  For me, it is the whole idea of ‘good’ that we need to know before we learn to appreciate life and to appreciate our differences from others. 

Since the beginning, everything was good.  It was created well with all its goodness for itself, and for everything around it.  It is the whole IDEA about the creation and our Good Creator.  And all the idea comes from the ESSENCE of each living thing and being.

 The essence is what makes us different with each other. Essence is what make-up our true identity as human not beast. Take for example; an orange we blend it become juice.  Even though it is now not the physical fruit anymore but it is still orange.  Only the form is change but not the essence.  No matter how much the form change to juice, to an ice-cream or drink it is still orange. The essence of orange will never change.  This analogy applies to us too. But different essence brings different needs and all essence comes from the same sources which is the ‘Good’.

Good comes about by knowing what is good for the thing.  Take for example: a rose and an orchid.  The essence of the orchid is different from a rose so we cannot treat the orchid like we treat a rose.  We can’t plant orchid like we plant rose otherwise it will die.  Same thing will happen with the rose at the other way of explaining it. Means, by knowing the essence of the orchid, we know what is good for it and what is bad for it.  They have different nature therefore they have different good and needs.

So what is good? Does it because we know its nature therefore we know what is good for it? It is not end here.  Good has something to do with both parties.  We go back to the example above; we water the orchid because it is for its good But we also being good by doing good to the orchid. It means both the planter and the orchid are benefited from it. Another example is helping an old lady to pass the traffic; it is bring good to the old lady and by her nature we understand that she needs help But the good is not only for the old lady but for the person too-it make him/her more human, a better person.

Knowledge leads us to know the nature and the essence of thing – The Good. And this knowledge leads us to wisdom. Therefore, to become a wise person is to know the Good of the nature of things especially the good for every each one of us. We only can know a person if we can comprehend what is good for him/her.  Then, when you heard somebody say, ‘I know the person’ but don’t know what is good for the person is a liar.  S/he sees it merely through the idea of image but not through the idea of Good.  So, to be good is not because we didn’t do ‘bad’ things but because we do Good to one another no matter how different is our skin colour. This is the main recipe of life. Love one another.

 What would your opinion say about this?