Many of the things we do in life are actually done for others and for ourselves. When you are invited to a wedding party, you wear your best clothes. You do this to attract people's attention and to amaze them with your appearance, and not for your own sake. You become happy when you notice that they admire your beautiful appearance, or your glamorous clothes. When you decorate your home, and put effort into adoring and taking care of it, you do it mostly for others' sight and not your own. Or when you invite your friends for lunch, you do your best so that there will be many kinds of food, and you make sure that the food is well arranged and is more varied than usual. The more important your friends are to you, the greater your concern about the food. And no doubt we overwhelmed with happiness when someone praises our clothes or the decor of our houses, or the taste of our cooking.
Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said, "Let a man come to the people how he likes the people come to him", in other words treat the people how you like to be treated by them.
No matter how successful one becomes, he would remain human, and dance to words of praise.
humans are the most complicated creatures in the universe and no matter how hard we try to in-complicate things it's always going to turn back on us. The most important thing is that whatever we do we have to do it for ourselves not matter how simple or insignificant it's, this is why as teachers we must do it to benefit others, and once we really do our job, we end up happy for ourselves.
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