Weird decisions in life
I had a very strange situation in the weekend. I was out in the town and I have found a Nokia N73 mobile phone on the floor. Immediately the question came, should I keep it or should I return it to the rightful owner?
If somebody would have asked me this question without having the phone in the hand, then I would have automatically responded that the good thing to do is to give it back. But having a crappy phone myself and holding a bloody expensive (more then 300 EURO) phone in my hand, made me to think about. At the end we live in a crappy world and nobody cares about this kind of things, why should I be the one who is good and having high morals? And then again the question: if I am not good, then who? How can I expect others to be good if I am not? It is strange how the fact that I had the phone in my hand had altered my way of thinking and made me to have this debate with myself for a while.
At the end I have decided to give it back to the owner. Decided like this because I felt bad having this internal debate and probably my education and religious belief pushed me to do so. After that I felt very OK with the decision. When I have decided I have asked the question from few of my friends what their opinion is and got very diverse responses. What is your opinion? Should I have kept it or give it back? If you would find a wallet on the floor with a huge amount of money, would you keep it or give it back to the owner?
If somebody would have asked me this question without having the phone in the hand, then I would have automatically responded that the good thing to do is to give it back. But having a crappy phone myself and holding a bloody expensive (more then 300 EURO) phone in my hand, made me to think about. At the end we live in a crappy world and nobody cares about this kind of things, why should I be the one who is good and having high morals? And then again the question: if I am not good, then who? How can I expect others to be good if I am not? It is strange how the fact that I had the phone in my hand had altered my way of thinking and made me to have this debate with myself for a while.
At the end I have decided to give it back to the owner. Decided like this because I felt bad having this internal debate and probably my education and religious belief pushed me to do so. After that I felt very OK with the decision. When I have decided I have asked the question from few of my friends what their opinion is and got very diverse responses. What is your opinion? Should I have kept it or give it back? If you would find a wallet on the floor with a huge amount of money, would you keep it or give it back to the owner?
3 Comments:
I think you took the right decision...at least the same as I would have taken:)
No worries, I am sure your phone is bettr than mine, but as long as we stil can receive or make calls, who needs more?
Big kiss from Leuven,
Nico
By Nico(leta), at 8:57 PM
Good decision. If it's not ourselves doing good jobs in this world, then who else? =)
By Made, at 8:59 AM
Hey man,
Imagine you would be the person loosing the phone ... I always do that when I'm facing this kind of situations.
Had this debate with myself a while a go ;)
Z.
By Lion, at 4:58 AM
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