‘Commitment is born out of love and care for others, as well as out of duty and responsibility towards your country and/or the world community.
In this materialistic day and age, commitment may be seen by some as madness. But it is the only way one can live and demonstrate one’s love and care for others. Talking love is one thing, but walking it is another thing. Care is another version of love.
This world runs because of committed – relatively mad – people, and not selfish commentators and witnesses. Only those people who work and live for others do really live; some are acknowledged and remembered for doing their bit and making a positive difference in this world; whereas others just exist.
People who live and move in air-conditioned environment, wine and dine with the rich and the famous, and manipulate others for their personal gains, will never understand the concept of commitment to others, as it clashes with their selfish tendencies. Nature levels off everything in the end when karma catches up!
Soldiers, who man the country’s borders in extreme discomfort and risk their lives, as well as farmers, who toil hard on the ground and in extreme weather conditions to grow our food, demonstrate extremely high levels of commitments towards humanity and their country. Some people may (carelessly) brush it off, saying that they do it just for earning their daily bread. Well that is a fact, because they and their families too need to thrive, but that does not explain everything and why they do what they do. The truth is much beyond their personal survival!
On a much smaller scale though, commitment is taking your pet for his morning walk when it is drizzling at the time you start from home and then getting drenched to bone half through the walk due to a heavy downpour that no umbrella can withstand, with weather forecast indicating rain through the entire day. Huskies need regular walks – preferable twice daily. Sakha, our husky, was in a kennel for the last one week, as his parents were overseas on work. On his return to home, he needed a quick walk at the earliest, so no excuses could / would / should work. Some people may term such commitment as sheer foolishness and scoff at the entire act. But that is what is called commitment!’ … Bill K Koul