The "Meaning" & "Implementing" that meaning in real life.....
If you have honestly spent time doing the previous chapter of "What is left of it", then only you should be reading further in this page. Believe me otherwise you will not feel interested in reading paragraphs below. They will sound like unwanted talk of ethics by somebody useless who does not have any place in your life.
If you have got all the data of "What is left of it" then I hope that like me you also would be interested in getting back into those sweet childhood days which your parents have blessed you with. Our conscious is the inner voice which we all hear at times, but we all somehow ignore it because of other priorities in life. But when you hear that voice and decide to follow it...... You'll start changing your life into something better.
Now let's give a careful look into the fact of how hard/easy is it to implement those beautiful ethical values which were handed over to us by our parents and family. For achieving this we need to do introspection of our own self. Basically we need to find our worth and ability to strongly hold-on to our moral values. This is not at all easy to figure out because all the previously mentioned reasons in this book will play a significant role in affecting and effecting every part of you and your lifestyle.
Hold on man... What's the mess of affecting and effecting?
By affecting I mean to show visible changes in your ethical or moral values. You will be carrying these values and your present lifestyle will reflect your values silently in your thoughts and beliefs. For example: You will believe only in those things which your brain accepts as correct, for other information you might make fun of them, or you might just avoid them, or you may remain silent till the time you let your brain gather more data before it accepts that new and unknown information.
By effecting I mean is to show visible changes in your real life actions and behaviour. Your moral values will always over power your actions as your basic behaviour will be your driver. You may not know but it might be possible that all those 50 people around you are there for some other reason OTHER than the love of your friendship.
Hope now you are aware of the fact that implementing those forgotten moral values is not a child's play anymore. You surely need to be really strong in your decision to change yourself for the good. It is not easy to carry your family name with the same pride with which it was handed to you by the family. Your inner most desire to live like an example in this society will be the basic and most required driving force in this process. We have to really need to put in our honest hard work in this.
It's just because we had put hard work in forgetting too many things in the past.
Stand up for yourself, I'm sure in later days you will be really proud of yourself for making this impossible task turn into a practically possible beautiful memory.