Leverage

The conversation ended with 'Please come back to High Society'.

I believe that everyone is selfish and self-serving by nature. In this life that we are given, we are moulded to believe that we have to take as much as we can. We call that maximising our potential. We exploit the environment and people around us. We call that adaptation and outsmarting the rest. We need to win and losing is not an option. Everything is a competition. Everything is strategised so that at the end, it benefits us. At the end of the day, we don't care about other people's fate as long as I get what I want. It is a bonus if others benefit in your cause.

Sometimes, we perform act of kindness/goodwill that seemed non-profit. It could be us wanting to 'generate some positive PR'. It could also be our conscience making us feel bad about ourselves. So we leverage it with acts of kindness that would otherwise be foolish and non-value adding to ourselves. However, we believe in karma, you see. When we do good with others, others will do good to us. At the end, we are benefited. We remember that others owe us a favor and somehow make sure that it is returned.

Leveraging. It is such a basic human act that even a caveman knew how to barter a stone axe for half a mammoth. Then, he uses the fur to make clothings, use the bones to make tools and the meat to feed his family. Where did he get his stone axe in the first place? He could have earned it somehow, or he could have inherited it.

Inheritance, like good hair, is a God given attribute. A person with some inheritance can leverage it for more. Still, some of my friends have yet learnt to fully leverage their inheritance. They pride themselves in their independence. They have friends who had no inheritance that are hard working, supporting themselves and succeeding in their career. It is enviable. They want to succeed from their own capabilities. Yet, they had forgotten something.

People with inheritance are different from people with no inheritance. People with no inheritance sometimes have that extra organ which enables them to push through hardships and they want it more than others. This self-serving ability is nurtured since young. Thus, when we think fondly of the friends that are succeeding with their own accord, they are probably rather uncommon and they have that extra organ.

People with inheritance will find it hard to compete with these other people if they don't leverage their inheritance. Some of them end up succeeding at the end without the leverage, but if they leverage, chances of success soar. It is just how we are meant to be. That inheritance, is our extra organ.

I have actually just grasp this concept recently. I think it will raise alot of eyebrows but it certainly have a seed of truth in it. It seemed snobbish and irrelevant in today's failing economy. This concept is not even relevant to a majority of people. Perhaps I may be wrong, but I myself will be embarking on a journey of leveraging. I will work that inheritance organ hard to multiply what I am given.