I remember penning my thoughts on being a
responsible healer. I think we need to
first become responsible human beings. Responsible towards self. And when I say that, I mean, we need to
understand that we all are here to grow, evolve into better human beings, and
while we do tend to slip and slide now and then, our larger responsibility lies
in leaving this place better than we came in.
That is why, when I see a corrosion of
ethics and the way we twist our pattern of thinking to suit our own narrow
self-centered ends, I get very agitated and wish I could do something more than
just sit and watch. I am not a coach; I
can’t be on the side-lines and watch the game.
But then neither do I know the game to play it the way it is being
played! So what am I ? A spectator
perhaps?
A colleague of mine took up an assignment
which was ethically wrong; I am not going into the reasons why she did so; I
was not looking into justifications. Suffice it to say that choosing what she
did totally undermined what I thought she was as a person. It also pained me
because her action made me partly responsible for the affected party, and I
wish she had kept the communication channels open for me to intervene and help
the affected party to make an informed choice.
I know we all have vested interests in the way we think and act, and
that I suppose, is the Way of the World as William Congreve says. But I am not able to digest the fact that a
person so dear to me personally, could mess up so badly professionally. And the
messing up is not on the grounds of ability but on ethical issues.
The icing on the cake is the fact that it is
not even viewed as a problem that has created so much of turmoil in me! Maybe I am over-reacting to a situation which
is a win-win one for all? And I don’t
stand to lose anything either; except perhaps a teeny weeny bit of faith in
humanity, which has led to me gaining a little bit more of cynicism.
