what's in for me? faithful a concept of selfish

Faithful a concept of selfish!

After two days of not updating my blog, I've become aware how difficult it is to be loyal and faithful. I see people around me failing to keep this principle of faithfulness. However, i have noticed how they (we) turn to be 100% faithful to things that are beneficiary to them. True? False? It depends on a person? .

To most of you, when we hear the word ‘faithful’ we quickly think about faithfulness in a relationship. While, being faithful actually expand to almost everything we do and to those around us. Like, being faithful to your pledge, your debt, your diet, job, friendships, and even to yourself (particularly, your own words).

I know one can be true to himself and to these above mentioned things yet being faithful is another story! Faithfulness in this context means adhering firmly, reliable, and devoted to something. Words like vows, loyal and promise (these are the hardest things a human can keep, even a mother to her child she sometimes fail to keep them, a pastor at a church, a lawyer to the law, a spouse to his spouse, a student to her studies) also define faithfulness!

Being faithful it a life style, it not something that you wake up and you able to do. It grows with you. It a skill you teach yourself and guide it with rule. It is impossible to be faithful without having some boundaries or some rules.

It not easy.

     Oh! Maybe it is, if something is in for you. Am I going to be gaining something?

Thus, it is that faith that keeps us faithful. Faith that good thing(s) might come out of being faithful. Hope that being Faithful will pay off.  

Does it mean we are become faithful in a hope of achieving something for ourselves?

For example, Do Christians stay faithful to God (Jesus) because they know there faithfulness will lead them to heaven; does staying faithful to your partner motivated by the hope that they will love you more or they do the same; being faithful to your pledge because you believe to get more out of it?

Are we becoming a selfish nation? Are we entering in an individualism era? Are we that selfish that everything we do have to be beneficiary to us? Can’t we be faithful and do something out of kindness (not the bursary/ scholarship kindness because they benefit for giving out scholarships, less tax) and do not expect anything back?

Answer to these questions varies or/and unknown as we don't know who to blame. As though we are so self centered we cannot blame ourselves. It is never you, ME, it someone else, it’s something else.

What is it, that should we blame; Capitalism, civilization, slavery, apartheid, nature, Government, government policies, globalization, religion, culture? Who? What?

As a selfish nation we have to blame someone or something for our inability to be faithful! Does blaming someone or something help us at all?

I’m a part of that nation! In my first post I promised to treat this blog like a child, be loyal to it and check it every day. Two days have passed. Wasn’t Faithful. I didn’t keep my promises. Is it because I’m not getting paid out of this blog? Is it because I feel like no one reads my blog? Is it because I’m not benefiting from this blog? I’m the part of the SELFISH society. Because maybe I would be more Faithful to my blog if I was getting something out of it.

In concluding, have you notice you hardly see people who are being faithful to something which they are not benefiting from. In this century people put their energy, time and money to something that gives them something at the end of it. they should be something in for them. But, do you blame them for being unfaithful to things that they don't benefit from? is Faithful a concept of selfish?

Peace and Love 
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