GREATNESS 1

What is greatness? Where does it lie? What moves can make an individual great? Is greatness a virtue or an ideal that needs to be pursued or does it fall on one's lap accidentally while existing on this earth?

Some persons appear great because every move of theirs goes to achieving something unique, something unusual which nobody else has done. For example are athletes who top the scores of others and emerge as champions in the field that they have chosen. Another set of great people are the inventors whose inventions give thousands, millions or help others ease their lives -- whether physically or otherwise. Still others are those in the generally helping business, whether they belong to a government or any advocacy group.

I remember our teacher in economics, Mr. Socrates who asked us -- twenty years from now, how do you perceive the society to be -- how many will be in the bottom, in the middle, and at the top. I submitted a drawing model whereby there were many people at the bottom and only a few at the top, meaning that there will be many people enjoying the natural resources of the country and only a few rulers or rich peole above them. 

It was a disastrous drawing model because the teacher interpreted it as many people at the bottom being dictated upon by a few. Anyway, that was a different idea from what I had had while drawing it. 

Today, I think nowhere are we nearing any model where many people will be enjoying the manna from heaven -- our bountiful harvests from land and sea. 

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