Social Prudence for Humanity

Most people do understand about being prudent. It indicates mainly to the ability to manage their personal affairs especially finance. They are noted to be thrifty and frugal at the same time.

Being frugal means that you avoid unnecessary expenditure and avoid waste. The extreme degree of frugality is when someone becomes really stingy. This extremity can impose a good amount of mental and emotional stress for yourself, as it impounds unnecessary fear in you. When someone is thrifty, you are trying to be resourceful with expenses. You think twice before purchasing anything and take the opportunity of advantages made available to you, whenever you go shopping for your essentials.

Literally, it has been noted that lust, rage and greed are to be avoided at all cost. These three elements, makes no place in a person to be prudent. You may desire to get something, but when lust overpowers you, a disarrayed notion to your attempt takes place.

Rage on the other hand, overpowers your ability in being just. I am not saying you need to be in high morals to please others. Rage, is your self-abuse! You are not able to see the difference between what you really need to do and what you actually did. The aftermath of your rage is regret, but it becomes too late to fix anything you did prior to that.

Greed has been spoken many of times in my other blogs. Simply said, it is an extreme desire to get what you want, without visualizing the consequences. Ironically, when someone is greedy, they are able to strongly visualize what they fantasize. The illusion they create within themselves causes difficulty to others, if they are not careful.

The combination of greed, rage and lust provokes circumstances at larger consequences that you can imagine. The root cause of colonization, wars and extreme capitalistic goals are the breeding ground to these buddies in arms. In some sense, when all these senses are activated, a form of insanity takes place within anyone.

What is enough to fill your stomach, is yours.
If you think you own more than that, you are a thief.
Bhagavad Gita

Prudence is not only for your financial framing. It also means that we need to reflect ourselves within humanity. It allows us to be offering assistance where needed, whilst making sure the resources provided will be distributed accordingly.

With prudence, we become resourceful with our space, not over-constructing impractical buildings that reach out to the sky whilst many are suffering at the ground level. The values placed in realizing how nature works, will allow proper planning for drainage whilst not wasting water resources. You adapt to the environment, without losing existing trees and greeneries. In being prudent, you will reasonably consume food, where both animals and plants are able to grow healthily in their natural time instead of genetic modifications for expedited deliveries.

Let me say this. An act of being socially prudent, is not an intent to justify and abuse human rights. Currently, in many developed countries, the issue of human rights and its tangibility are framed for others to preview. It does not justify when you go to war with countries, ravage their land and then attempt to relocate the disarrayed citizens to other countries. What you call as social injustice, is implied here.

Whilst we need to come together to help others rebuild their nation where possible, social prudence also means that we are not forgetting to rebuild our own nation as well. The similar nature of being prudent is essential, as it is not worth sending millions of dollars in recovery funds when these monies is pocketed by the running governments. Politics is vicious, that even a venomous cobra can fear and slither away.

Social prudence is a continuous undertaking for humanity. Many genuine social organizations have provided great extend to help others. They became resourceful to get volunteers to travel around the world, at their own expense to help educate, medicate and develop local regions with new knowledge. They did not build multiplex buildings, but reconstructed houses that are practical for use. The values undertaken by them to survive with limited resources whilst enhancing the available benefits is something truly admirable. They do it with passion and selflessness. Their wealth of knowledge is endowed to others, whilst they nurture themselves with satisfaction.

Learn to value prudence within yourself. Do not overindulge in anything you do, as it will lead you to paths that you will not find an easy way out. Do not believe in the falsification of your mental placard that is lead by lust, greed and rage. Like a mirage, it is illusive, yet you are led astray.