By Ustaz Mark Bang
One of the philosophers once said this quote, “Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground.”
Life is a lesson one shouldn’t joke with. When I lived the life of being a child, I never knew that there were some great lessons I should imitate and others learned that I might impart unto others. It’s very crucial to this present life.
We should look up towards our goals, but at the same time, not forget our grounding, which helps us make good decisions. Fame can also cause an imbalance in our capacity to ground ourselves. No wonder famous people embarrass themselves with displays of foolishness.
No matter how much money we make, we are the same valuable person we were before all that money making. We should not forget where we are coming from. (Popular music video “Never forget where you are coming from” by the boy band Take that inspires me) When we are in touch with who are, we make better decisions at work as well as in personal space. We make better relatives to the people who care for us. We live our lives better if we are well grounded. Ambition has its place, but humility is a heady power.
While it’s good to aim and work for the stars, it’s important to understand and remember the base from where we started.
It’s good to reach the stars, but that’s not the end of the story. First, one needs to learn how to remain there. It requires effort. Still, that’s not enough. Having learned how to remain there, the next level of achievement is gaining an ability to reach the base and pull up deserving people to your level, at least. If they are more capable than you, help them to reach distant stars. That’s how progress happens. It’s not enough that one person is great. His greatness reaches its height only when he is effortlessly moving several times from the ground level to the star and guiding deserving people to the stars.
Say you are fealty rich. It’s good. But what if people surrounding you are poor. You will become target of their envy. You cannot be happy. You can enjoy riches only when people around you are also rich.
This is said or believed so that whatever one does or how ever progresses their activities bad repercussions should not be experienced by people at the ground…for instance human being are progressing but the farmers who yield crops should not get exploited baith human getting more and more advance and changing the food habit and adopting bad food eating habits and have demands that are actually exploiting people at the ground level Also this can be meant in many more ways, as human progressing must not forget the people involved in their trial times like parents or co-workers or even the lowest of the employees must be cared by the person experiencing greater progress.
Also it can mean that one must not forget or overlook what’s Eve one had experienced or make use or take the opportunity to repair that upon gaining strength and power at heights like our president as he had witnesses or whatever he had witnesses during his growing up tears or even trying times and now he is taking every bit of opportunity to repair or help the people who still faces the same like helping in bringing holdout groups into peace agreement or even making as many provisions for the people.
When you are sitting down, your weight rests on your buttocks. When you are standing up, your weight rests on your feet. You are said to be standing on your feet – this is often used as a metaphor to indicate that you are supporting yourself. If you are leaning on someone else, you are not said to be standing on your own two feet. So when you go from a sitting to a standing position in a jumping motion, you are said to be jumping to your feet. The expression is often used when there is not a literal jump involved, so you might not leave the ground. I do remember one time when Norman Whiteside scored a dramatic goal and my father leapt from his chair up into the air and landed on his feet – he quite literally jumped to his feet. Often though someone is said to “jump to their feet” simply because they went from sitting to standing very quickly without using their hands for support. But the “to your feet” part means that, at the end, you are standing on your feet. “Public Staunchest Ally”
The writer of this article is a human rights activist, writer, and professional teacher.