Steve Jobs, the man behind the modern computer graphics, the CEO of Apple Computers and the founder of Pixar Animation Studios on his speech at Stanford University said that at a phase of his life as student he used to walk for 7 miles across the town every Sunday to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna Temple. I bet you, none of those who contributed to that temple had ever had an intention of helping a Christian student behind their contributions. But they helped not only a Christian student but the whole world by indirectly contributing to the evolution of modern user friendly Computers.
There was a person who stood all India first or some thing of that sort in IIT M.Sc. entrance exams for Chemistry few yrs back who hails from a village close to my hometown. In an interview, he mentioned that there was a scene in a telugu movie Gharshana where heroine tells hero that she is an M.Sc. maths graduate from IIT and that that was the source for him to know that there is M.Sc. in IITs as well. With that information as starting point he did his work and went all the way to win all India first rank. Again, I bet you, none of the persons behind that movie, the director Gowtham Menon, or the hero Venkatesh or the writer of that scene or the producer would never ever had an intention of giving that information out to help the students who didnt know about that.
Last but not least, let me share another similar example before telling what I wanted to tell. There was a slum boy who graduated as IPS and was posted as DSP to his own place (if I remember it correctly, thats Karimnagar) in a letter to Eenadu (a telugu news paper) shared the experience that changed his life. He mentioned in the letter that as a child the whole classroom stuff, the letters, the digits, the chemical and mathematical formulea were all confusing to him until he met the friend of his life, an Engineer at a construction site near his hut in the slums. He said that the Engineer used to take him to his shelter every evening and used to explain for half an hour the internals, the logic behind few lessons of maths and science which changed his his way of thinking and there by his life. The angel like friend disappeared after a couple of weeks but not his effect. He wanted to thank that friend through the news paper for changing his life. Again, the Engineer might have not though that the boy will one day be an IPS.
People do stuff. Good stuff, bad stuff. What one thinks as good maynt look as good to other, what one thinks as bad maynt look as bad to other. But do stuff that you think that is good. Donate a buck to a temple, to a political party or to an orphanage, or to a beggar or what ever. Donate a minute. Donate a calorie. Donate anything that you can or want. Do good stuff. The result may amaze you one day.
Let me do some good by sharing URL to Stven Jobs speech that I mentioned above :)
Its amazing. I loved it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1R-jKKp3NA
