In this crazy world of ours, this word is attached to religion and Gods and how the greatest of the worshippers did humongous tasks with a simple solution of turning to a specific diety.
As much as I would like to write in detail about this, I cannot, because the topic of this writing is not the Gods, but the people itself.
Worship, according to google's main definition means, the feeling or expression of reverence and adoration for a deity. But what of I say, that people actually worship beings other than the majestic 'Deities' . Yup, you guessed it right, people worshipping pepple is what I'm going to discuss today.
Worship, in simple words means, giving everything you have for a specific reason, thing or being. And no boundaries are imposed on the limit to which you can donate your life. If you worship, a specific reason a. k. a 'cause' , it's good, for it powers up your inner core like a power source. You start to live and thrive for this cause. Some of the greatest revolutionaries are examples of this.
If you worship a particular thing, you are putting all your expectations and actions towards a specific thing, and you may or may not own it. And depending on your dedication to this 'thing' determines the goodness it holds for your life. If you don't own it, it becomes an aim, but you do own it, it becomes something powerful, yet powerless.
However, when you treat a person with utmost respect and dignity and keep him/her even above your own, it solely depends on the person, you are sacrificing everything for. If the respective human being is learned, and you strive to absorb the principles of his life into yours to amplify the goodness in it, then sure, do it till the end, because you are the sole beneficiary in the end.
BUT
If the other person is just a simpleton like you, yet you try to empower his life with the positives reserved for you and you alone, then my dear friend, you are in for a hell of a ride. You give up everything you have, for their sake and happiness, and in return cherish the feeling of fulfilment of watching them be happy & fill you like an overflowing bucket. The only thing you end up achieving is how to live life like them.
It's well and good, if they are family, but when the 'others' start getting benefits that they don't deserve, the only person badly affected is the sponsor of those benefits, i.e.
YOU!
Your own life becomes devoid and you become like a planet revolving a black hole. You don't get anything, but if anything does pop up, it's swallowed by the blackhole.
Our life remains a happy and successful one, as long as we are able to provide ourselves with the interest
( The one used maths-%) of nourishment . But if we change the reciever of the interest , what do you think happens to the one who had been receiving it(our life) till now.
Yup, you are right, the previous reciever of this graceful nourishment, slowly starts to wilt, and in the end dies. What's left of a beautiful life becomes a barrenland void of everything it could have been.
Worship is strictly one way and it always affects the person in a bad way if he/she has nothing to gain in the end.
Love a person, cool.
Respect a person, cool.
Worship a person*, not cool man, definitely not cool.
So, to all those who have put in everything they have for someone, make sure they are worthy of it, and doubly sure of being at the recieving end of the benefits as well.
Cheerio!!
*family and someone with superior knowledge are excluded from the list
