When good is great....

What is greatness? Is it doing or having done something monumental? I don't think so. Being "great", is something which is very internal, something quintessential to the very being or soul of the individual. Sometimes, I ask myself," Am I good? I really want to be.", then I think to myself: Good is not good enough. People want to be great. I,want to be great. there are so many of us who are actually really good people inside, but the goodness within us is marred with the external influences or experiences we share with people, who have given up on themselves. Being good in today's world is not easy. Sad to say, it is true. Yet, there are many of us, who know and realise our own potential of being good. Some of us who do no wanna forget the person, we wanted to be, when we were really young. Greatness can be achieved in both ways, ergo, of being good or bad. Yet true greatness is when we voluntarily choose to be good, even if being good has caused us a lot of pain. We use that pain to not stop being good, but on the contrary, we use these experiences to reinforce our conscious desire to be good. We do so, because we realise that, after the traumatic experience, we ourselves fee no guilt of wronging others. We have regrets, many of them, but none that make us feel we were in the wrong. Maybe, just maybe, being good inspite of wanting to be happy by being bad, is true greatness.

est magnitudo, bonitas, cum sit malum, est mensura.

(goodness is greatness when being bad is the norm).