a story in progress

Another round of pop quiz! If a person were to ask you this;

"Given the choice of being good or doing good."

Which one will you go for? Is it being good or doing good? At a first glance, this two are almost alike. But if one were to look more carefully, being good would mean that one's morality is high and he or she will be able to abstain from committing any sins or breaking the law. Doing good however means, that through a simple act of helping others in any way possible, such as donating for a worthy cause,helping the less fortunate and so on. So there is a clear line separating those two.

The very reason I pose such question is because, of late I been reading a few religious themed books. (can't think of a better name for this kind of books). And one of them has a very interesting sub-chapter or verse in other word. It tells that one must be good and not just to do good. According to the author doing good can be motivated by acquisitiveness, desire for merit, bliss, haven, reward or motivated by fear of punishment and retributions. "Being good' is supposedly the true morality.

If one were to think upon these words, (which I did) isn't all this philosophy very idealistic and wholesome indeed? In fact is it too ideal for reality? You be the judge of it. But the very point that I wish to stress over here is that, doesn't one need to be good in the first place to do good??! Yes, without any shadow of doubt we tend to be motivated by other reasons (reasons which aren't as noble as it seems) to do good, but aren't we still considered being good in the first place? So, can one truly say being good is better then doing good? (when it appears that these two tends to compliment each other rather then to diverge at a point)

Haha. Guess I am rambling or talking bout nonsensical stuff once more. It seems that I am prone to do that. (more frequent of late) But guess all these hardly matter any way. For all are just questions that are meant to go unanswered.

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On a lighter note, tomorrow my school is having "Feista Ko-kourikulum". Selling some stuffs for Club Astronomy. Hope everything goes smoothly as planned tomorow. The plus side would be that I get to skipped all those boring assembly and speeches by coming in about 8 something. On the excuse of having to run errands for my club's stall outside. Haha

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And another random online quiz which I did quite some time ago. Kinda accurate I suppose;