h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

A.R.Shams's 'Creative Living Spirit' Reflection:

A.R.Shams's 'Creative Living Spirit' Reflection:

Where there is honour, dishonour is there adjacent to it seeking its turn of entrance.

Because Entrance – Exit, Love – Hate, Joy – Sorrow, War – Peace, Friendship – Enmity, Life – Death, Fame – Defame, Respect – Disrespect, Grace – Disgrace and their similar pairs are said to be in existence in their respective twin companionship quite like as that of Honour – Dishonour.

Each member of the each twin exists together and departs together.

A senior friend of mine before fifteen years now said in an occasion to some of his loveliest friends when he noticed many people began to offer him too much respect beyond his expectation, because he was holding a powerful key position, “The more flashes of honour I receive, the more flashbacks of dishonour I perceive.”

He was right. Within a few months of that he narrow escaped a number dishonourable situations, as he said before his expiry last year at his about 70 despite the fact that he was proved to an innocent fellow.

Another fellow 70’s, those days, who was known to people by his nick, ‘Pehlwan’ (wrestler) said, “I left wrestling at a point of time when I was almost at the rising point adjacent to the peak of the highest fame in wrestling.”

This fellow was never defamed as a champion wrestler although he is no more with us now.

One of the best champions in cricket, an ex-captain of Pakistan National Team said, “I took retirement from the National Team far before time.”

He was at the top gear of ‘Talk’ of the cricket fans worldwide, when he said ‘goodbye’ to cricket.

Did he do so to maintain the honour he was gifted with?

On another occasion on being asked for his early retirement he said, “To maintain the honour one receives, if possible, one should disappear from the scene, where and when one is blessed with reaching just near to the peak."

It is difficult to acquire honour but it is more difficult to maintain that because ‘dishonour' shall trace out the recipient of ‘honour’ soon jealously for a strange reason.

At whatever capacity as a scientist, engineer, doctor, journalist, publisher, minister, president or a king or else, when one is honoured, he/she must care about the speed of that. Because the fellow at the steering wheel has to care about the speed limit that remains controllable in case of need of any brake etc.

Doesn’t it mean that we need more care to devote towards being honoured than dishonoured or disgraced?

History repeatedly tells about the ultimate disastrous destiny of the too rich, poor, famous, merciful or cruel people.

Anything beyond limit results to quite opposite to that.

Now, if anyone is dishonoured, how can we judge about the percentage of its being justified or unjustified?

However, that’s a different chapter of discussion.

Whereas, we are concerned here to teach ourselves the art of receiving honour more cautiously than we may do if unfortunately dishonour gets its turn to reach.

“When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead!” - WHITTIER

That’s why some people talk of honour, “Why not postpone picking more of honour one after another before unwrapping and checking the recent one to confirm if that’s genuine, counterfeit or too genuine.”

Remember that the ‘too genuine’ one may be an alarm for us to be ready to receive the subsequent ones – the chains of ‘dishonour’.

May we be protected from dishonour – too much of honour!

Opinions welcomed!

One wonders how you can praise honour, and also praise Ronald Reagan. Do you not remember his first weeks in office? Do you not know how he went around behind the Carter government to assure that American hostages would NOT be released until he had taken office?

Making deals with the enemy makes one a traitor, not a patriot. There was no honour in the man.

He lied, endangered his constituency, and stole from the future generations by indebting his country with never realised 'star wars' weaponry which, if it had been successful, would be threatening world peace everywhere today.

I wonder as to when, where or at what instance I have ever mentioned about Ronald Reagan!

Or if I did so, the whole thing of that may please be quoted word by word for my convenience to respond to this asking accordingly!