Day 157 of wisdom
“It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.”
John Templeton
Being important is a nice thing, it makes you feel good about yourself, but a more important thing than being important is being nice, it helps you make other people feel good about themselves without denying you your good feelings too. Being important does not make you indispensable, but being nice makes you needed. A nice man is of more value to the society than an important man.
The world is in great need of a lot of nice people more than it needs important people. One who is nice is more important than an important person. Being nice comes with the readiness to serve, the mind to help, and the spirit of lifting up the the lowly, and down casted. An important man thinks not of any of these things, but his own self. He thinks only of satisfying himself, his ego, and everything he holds dear.
Maya Angelou once said, "I have learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." Making people happy is one of the greatest task one can ever accomplish, it is one of the greatest form of fulfilment one can ever have.
It is good to be important, but the importance achieved through being nice is the best form of importance. An important man can start a business, but it will take a nice man to grow a business. Being relevant makes you replaceable, being nice makes your type rare. Be good, it makes you important; be nice it makes you immortal.
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