There are waaaayy many ways to go to Rome IF whichever way it is - you can do it.
Taking a full priced plane.
Paying a kid's price fare and admitting you are under 12.
Stealing someone's ticket and you going for free.
Pack yourself in suitcase.
Etc.. let your mind takes you to whichever way..
Anyway, if you don’t get caught, there are no apparent awful effects to anyone, right? So, why doing it the right way?
This one, had been stuck in my mind for a while - doing the right thing…
despite of the cost, results,
whether people know it or not,
whether it affects others or not
...is in fact, so essential that that it affects the way you see and feel about yourself, your and eventually affecting your whole life. It’s a whole lot more than doing it for the sake of being so called holy.
Of course, there are lots of thing easier to say than done - like this one too. In a smallest way, when I, as instructed by my never-at-home landlord:
use the washing machine twice a week (anyway, I’ve paid the whole lot, right?)
not to download movies (she won’t know who, and if it does slow down – so what, right?)
to use the heater wisely (even though she doesn’t have a say on this)
makes me feel much better despite or not the whatever effects (bad or good) affect my landlord and my housemates.
I figured out, that in fact, doing the wrong/ right things is way more than affecting yourself than others. Let me put it this way, doing the right thing is like completing a payment. It is pricey at that very moment but after, all you reap is the good things. Don’t get it wrong, sometimes when you do it right, you still reap not as good – but what I’m saying is that thing bigger than the actual fruits (things that are tangible).
I’m talking about self-righteousness. Really, give it a try. In the smallest things in your everyday life, try to be self righteous – do the right thing despite of people, results, and whatever - you know it. I’ve experienced it and it gives me peace of mind, confidence, pride and a great feeling about myself that I am doing-it-right.