Serve Self to Serve Others

During our school days we may have come across the popular belief to think and serve the society first and only then think about our own self. Even nowadays there are debates about being more nationalistic in our approach. There is nothing wrong with thinking or serving our society. But this should not come at the expense of disregarding our own self.

Let us look at the following scenarios to understand more on this :

- In a poor family, suppose the son or the daughter of the parents goes on to get a good job, this would help the whole family to improve their standard of living. So here the success of 1 person in the family can ensure the quality of life of the remaining 3 or 4 members in the family.

- In a family, suppose the bread winner is only the husband. Then in this case as long as the husband is healthy and active, he would ensure that the family survives happily.

- A healthy person could have a career of upto 55-60 years. On the other hand, a person who doesn't look after his health could have a short career due to poor health. Longer the career of a person, longer would be the opportunity for him to serve his family members. 

In the above scenarios, we have seen that the dependency of the family towards a particular person in the family might be more. Similarly the bread winner of the family would be depending on the parents for his daily food, love, compassion etc. So there could always be interdependencies between people of the same family. This is the reason why everyone needs to look after themselves first so that they would be available to look after others. 

It all begins with Self-Love. One positive person in the family has the ability to spread positivity among the remaining members of the family. Serving self and the family would in turn help to serve the society and the nation. If everyone follows the same approach, then we would be having a happy nation. So it is essential to give first priority to our own self and only then to our family and other members of the society. 

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