“Only those live who do good.”

by : Count Leo Tolstoy

I have never heard of this statement ever before and now that I have, I see the importance of it. I actually had the chance to see it through and the more i do so the more I like it. I feel like it’s something that I’ll live up to, like most of the other statements introduced to me by others. Count Leo Tolstoy is very curt but says a lot. With only six words he divided the world into two groups. Those who do good are the ones living and those who choose to do wrong and make poor decisions are the ones that are not living. He does not talk about it in a superficial level but gives it a rather deep meaning. I was able to interpret that he doesn’t mean that only the people who do good actually live and breathe but actually live life to the fullest. They go about their day doing good and feeling good. They don’t have to worry about keeping lies, feeling guilty, or being mean. That is because they have already chosen to do the right. Then it is for us to infer that those who do wrong don’t live. Here what he is trying to say is that those who chose the wrong and make bad decisions are the ones that live life with an anchor tied to them. That means that they live life just because they are alive. They have just bad things following them. Some may be criminals and have a robbery or murder in their permanent record for choosing the wrong. They then have no life because they aren’t going to be trusted by employers to be loyal employees. They will not be trusted by another and therefore have close to no friends. Take my criminal as an example for what a person who does not choose the right as someone who has no life. Then there are those who are loyal and do good. Those people can be friends. There are friends who are loyal and do good for you and they live life feeling good knowing they helped people through their problems. I have never heard this statement before but I can seriously relate to this greatly and will continue to do so, for I see nothing but truth in it.