The phrase ‘New Beginnings’ denotes that there were old starts. This may mean that one is not satisfied with the earlier beginnings and would like to have a new beginning, or a new situation. New challenges in life require new beginnings in order to move forward in one’s life journey. New beginnings have hope, expectations and have certain goals. New beginnings are the result of certain understanding and insights such as—Self Evaluation, Situational Evaluation, Mission Evaluation and so on. Certain events and certain seasons motivate one to a New Beginning. This Christmas season may we be motivated to have resolutions for New Beginnings. The need to have a new beginning will differ from person to person and from group to group. One such need for a new beginning is shared in this article.
Extra Money – A Persistent Slogan
Today the focus, the goal of the people in general is— ‘Make Money.’ Is making or earning money a bad thing? No, it is not; rather it is an essential one. But today there is a craving for ‘Extra Money.’ A salaried person wants to have some ‘Extra Money,’ a business person wants ‘Extra Money,’ a Producer of a commodity wants ‘Extra Money,’ a consumer wants ‘Extra Money,’ people involved in social work want ‘Extra Money,’ people involved in spiritual activity want ‘Extra Money,’ people’s representatives from grass root to the top want ‘Extra Money,’ the voters want ‘Extra Money’ and in short, given the chance, it appears that every one of us wants ‘Extra Money’ which is not ours, which is not legal and which is not right.
This ‘Extra Money’ is usually in the form of bribe, adulteration, cheating, duplication, low quality, buy one get one free, lottery, donations, corruption, horse trading, operation, selling the votes, freebies and so on. But every one of them justifies the ‘Extra Money.’ This increasing craving for ‘Extra Money’ is one of the main causes for many of the evils that are found in society. This is one of the biggest hurdles in the way of change—be it Social or Political Change.
K. John Don Bosco
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