CHARACTER OF A PERSON

The creativity of a person‘s soul is what we call as character. It is the fluid that reflects ones heart. Character is not just what we try to display for others to see, it is who we are even when no one is watching but god. The great Abraham Lincoln once said, “Reputation is the shadow. Character is the tree.” It is the foundation for all true success. A person may have money, position, or power, but unless he has character he or she is not considered to be truly successful. Character is not a birth mark that is firm and constant which we acquire from the time we first cried. It is just a charioteer of learning. The character that we experience in our life by many mentors gradually becomes our own character. The footprints of many great people in the sand of time are the tools of these mentor used to build up our character. People eventually neglect our forefather bad deeds and image themselves as someone beyond perfect to make them our role model or hero. But the fact is these so called heroes and heroines are ordinary crowd and nobody under the sun is “perfect”. But in the face of a character builder they are. There is not a single society born in this earth till date that has the bitterness to teach its world what is not perfect. So the character of a person follow is basically the character of the so called great people which is been drained out in the candle of principles and values. But at the end of the day from the good character of the heroes and heroines we can see what character this society cherishes and by this way we can know something about the inner world of the people surviving in it. To sum up, heroes and heroines are more often than not realistic figures and if we try to understand the character of a society through the understanding of its heroes and heroines we should take great care because of the false image they may represent. Nevertheless, it is still a useful way for us to get a better understanding of the character of a society indirectly. Like the great lord Buddha once said Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.  Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.  Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.  Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.  Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.  But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.