It is said that some people are born great; some achieve greatness, while others have greatness thrust upon them.
I would say all human beings are born great, in their own ways. They have the power of thought; they have conceptual language; the power of transcendence is unique to humans; they have the ability to relate to their creator; creativity is another distinctive mark of human beings.
Greatness should be a distinguishing mark in the lives of humans and in greatness should they die.
It sounds paradoxical that human beings must journey from the greatness of birth to the greatness of achievement. Greatness is never a destination but a process. The moment they stop growing, they die. This process of growth and death is again unique to human beings.
The journey begins when people use their unique powers creatively. The power of thought should be used to distinguish between good and bad, permanent and transitory, life-affirming and life-negating. The end of this process should find people choosing for life that which is good, permanent and life-affirming. The power of transcendence should benefit us to go beyond the ordinary to the extraordinary, from pessimism to optimism, from narrow-mindedness to broadmindedness.
The power of creativity is meant to find ways and means to love and serve one another. And finally, be rightly related with God who is the source of all greatness.
