On achieving ones goals, on the need for power and on trying to do what’s right.
Though I am a great believer in the golden rule. There are times in a person’s life when one has to take advantage of others. For one reason or another, there are points in a person’s life that there is very little choice, where one as to choose between achieving ones goals or letting go of the opportunity. I guess it all comes down to two things, is it more important for me to achieve my goals right now, or is the person I have a relationship with more important to me.
In our life we create relationships for a purpose, it can be for friendship, companionship, love, sex or money and power etc. Most of the time our intentions are benign, but sometimes the need for more power and money gets the better of us. There are also times when we “have to” choose between two evils, here we can make two choices, its either we take the lesser of the two evils or the choice where we gain the most.
I myself love power, I have a strong need for it, a desire to be better and than others. Sometimes this can be overwhelming, because of this I found one should find something that is more important to him than power. Family, friends or a girlfriend, with these things our needs/wants are tempered by the feelings we hold towards the people we care for.
However much we try to do what’s right, there will always someone who will disagree with our actions. Maybe they disagree with it because they weren’t able to think it up themselves or maybe they will lose a hold on something or someone. One has to realize that someone will always be affected by our actions, and that even if we have good intent someone always ends up losing. We may not know them or even care, but if we try to remember this we will be able to choose who it is that will get affected. Always think things through, consider all possibilities before doing anything. When you do this, there will be less chance of hurting someone you care for.