Goes around comes around - Essay Example

“What Goes Around You Comes Around” Introduction Man is a social animal and his existence on earth depends on how cleverly he adjustswith the surroundings. No two individuals are alike because of the difference in beliefs, customs, cultures, appearances/physical structures, intellectual levels etc. Some people have strong beliefs in ideals and values and they will try to shape their life strictly in accordance with their principles and life philosophies. But quiet often they may fail in their attempt because of the immense external pressure from the family, society and environment they belong to.

In other words “What goes around you comes around”. What goes around you comes around If we help somebody at some stages of our life, we will be rewarded for it in future. During my school days I often studied in schools far away from my home which forced me to stay in hostels. Once a strange fellow approached me and told me that his money was stolen by somebody while he was travelling in a train and asked me, 50 dollars to reach his home. Though I was suspicious, I gave him the money and have forgotten about that incident.

After around 5 year time, the same thing has repeated in my life in another location in another train. This time the victim was I and the help was extended by a military personnel. “What goes around you comes around”.If we adopt false means to gain materialistic advantages, at some point of our life we will be a victim of same sort of actions from our surrounding. I have a friend in Dubai who is working as a sales manager in a printing company. Most of the other sales guys working in other similar companies were fed up with my friend because of the illegal methods, he adopted for grabbing business.

My friend believed that any methods can be adopted in business especially in sales for getting business. Ethics and morality were unknown words for him. He quiet often showed high quality printing materials to the customers for taking the order and used cheaper materials in production. He has purchased a brand new television set of a famous brand from a shopping mall in Dubai, which offered high percentage of discount on every consumer goods purchasing. After the warranty period was over, he had some problems with the television set and the technician has informed him that the actual circuit board used inside the TV was a cheaper, second hand, and repaired one.

“What goes around you comes around”.Those who are taking the sword to kill innocent people will be killed by the same sword. Veluppillai Prabhakaran, the chief of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE) has caught the headlines of news papers recently, when he was shot dead by the Sri Lankan Military. Prabhakaran was responsible for the killing of thousands of innocent people including former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Sri Lankan president Premadasa. Both of them were killed, allegedly by LTTE suicide bombers.

Prabhakaran reportedly asked his allies to kill him in case of an emergency. Moreover Prabhakaran reportedly always kept cyanide tablets with him in order to suicide in case of an emergency. But nothing worked for him and ultimately he reaped the same, he harvested. “What goes around you comes around”. To conclude, our acts will hang over our heads like the sword of Damocles. Whatever we give will be returned to us. We cannot accuse others for the experiences we are getting from the world irrespective of whether it is good or bad.

In other words it is difficult for us to stay away from the results of our actions. If our acts were good ones we will get rewards; otherwise we will get punishments only. In short we can decide our destiny.