A Balance Between Ourselves and Others - Essay Example

The ideal way how to choose what to do with our lives is to strike a balance between ourselves and others.  That is, determining what we really would like to do that will make us happy and balancing it with economic consideration if it could provide for our responsibilities in life.  Equally important is for us also to ask if our choice could also benefit our, community, society, family, country, and humanity in general. Such that when we do it, we make everybody happy, first is our “self”, then our community, our country, and then mankind in general. 

As a guide on how to best choose what to do with our lives, it is best to ask first “what will make us happy?”, or “what is the thing that we would like to passionately?”   This requires soul searching but when we have determined what it is that we would like to do, the rest will follow.  That includes the economic aspect because we would excel with what we do and thus, gets page handsomely for it.  In the process of determining what we would like to do, we should also consider the greater good of everybody because what good will an endeavor do if it does not do good to others except for one’s self?  This is important because not all that we would like to do are appropriate or even legal which is why we have to ask if it will do good to our community and society.   Thus, it goes without saying in selecting what we would like to do, we should also consider existing laws, our morals, and social norms.

If we have satisfied all this guidance in choosing what we would like to do, we did not only make ourselves happy but is also able to support our needs and responsibilities, as well as contribute to the community at large, making us a productive member of society.  When we are happy with what we are doing and at the same time contributed to the good of society, then we can say that we have chosen the right thing to do.