Hmmm.. is there really anything that last forever? Or Nothing Really last forever?
Of course there are...
Though this list of things is really short.
1. God - God will last forever. God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow.
2. Light and Darkness - I do believe that this two things will last forever.
3. Time - Regardless of "anything", time will continue running.
There are things that are truly unchangeable, such as memories and legacies.. but for me, even this things won't going to last forever.
Can you enumerate other things that will last forever?
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
The happiest man in the world
I can never ever forget this wonderful story. I wanted to share it to all of you.. so here it is...
Happiest Man in the world
One day, a father of a very wealthy family took his son on a trip to the province here in the Philippines with the purpose of showing his son how poor people can be. They spent a couple of days and nights on the farm of what would be considered a very poor family.
On their return from the their trip, the father asked his son, "How was the trip?"
"It was great, Dad."
"Did you see how poor people can be?" his father asked.
"Oh yes," said the son.
"So what did you learn from the trip?" Asked the father.
The son answered, I saw that we have one dog and they have four. We have a pool that reaches the middle of our garden and they have a creek that has no end. We have imported lanterns in our garden and they have the stars at night. Our patio reaches to the front yard and they have the whole horizon. We have a small piece of land to live on and they have the fields that go beyond our sight. We have servants who serve us, but they serve others. We buy our food, but they grow theirs. We have walls around our property to protect us, they have friends to protect them."
With this, the boy's father was speechless. Then his son added, " Thanks, Dad, for showing me how poor we are."
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Many times, people forget what they have and thus fail to appreciate these because they concentrate so much on things that they do not have. Sometimes, they feel that they are deprived just because they see others to have so much. Or, they feel superior over the rest because they seem to have more than the others.
It is all a matter of perspective, of how they look at things -- just like how the young son in the story learned to look at life from a beautiful perspective.
Happiest Man in the world
One day, a father of a very wealthy family took his son on a trip to the province here in the Philippines with the purpose of showing his son how poor people can be. They spent a couple of days and nights on the farm of what would be considered a very poor family.
On their return from the their trip, the father asked his son, "How was the trip?"
"It was great, Dad."
"Did you see how poor people can be?" his father asked.
"Oh yes," said the son.
"So what did you learn from the trip?" Asked the father.
The son answered, I saw that we have one dog and they have four. We have a pool that reaches the middle of our garden and they have a creek that has no end. We have imported lanterns in our garden and they have the stars at night. Our patio reaches to the front yard and they have the whole horizon. We have a small piece of land to live on and they have the fields that go beyond our sight. We have servants who serve us, but they serve others. We buy our food, but they grow theirs. We have walls around our property to protect us, they have friends to protect them."
With this, the boy's father was speechless. Then his son added, " Thanks, Dad, for showing me how poor we are."
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Many times, people forget what they have and thus fail to appreciate these because they concentrate so much on things that they do not have. Sometimes, they feel that they are deprived just because they see others to have so much. Or, they feel superior over the rest because they seem to have more than the others.
It is all a matter of perspective, of how they look at things -- just like how the young son in the story learned to look at life from a beautiful perspective.
Self Reflection Poems
I found some interesting poems from my old book,
so I'd thought I post it here to share it with you guys.
You tell on yourself
You tell on yourself by the friends you seek,
By the very manner in which you speak,
By the way you employ your leisure time,
By the use you make of dollar and dime.
You tell what you are by the things you wear,
By the spirit in which you burdens bear,
By the kind of things at which you laugh,
By the records you play on the phonograph.
You tell what you are by the way you walk,
By the things of which you delight to talk,
By the manner in which you bear defeat,
By so simple a thing as how you eat.
By the books you choose from the well-filled shelf:
In these ways and more, you tell on yourself.
So there's really no particle of sense
In an effort to keep up a false pretense
-Adapted-
so I'd thought I post it here to share it with you guys.
You tell on yourself
You tell on yourself by the friends you seek,
By the very manner in which you speak,
By the way you employ your leisure time,
By the use you make of dollar and dime.
You tell what you are by the things you wear,
By the spirit in which you burdens bear,
By the kind of things at which you laugh,
By the records you play on the phonograph.
You tell what you are by the way you walk,
By the things of which you delight to talk,
By the manner in which you bear defeat,
By so simple a thing as how you eat.
By the books you choose from the well-filled shelf:
In these ways and more, you tell on yourself.
So there's really no particle of sense
In an effort to keep up a false pretense
-Adapted-
Myself
I have to live with myself and so
I want to be fit for myself to know,
I want to be able as days go by,
To look at myself straight in the eye.
I don't want to stand with the setting sun
And hate myself for the things I've done.
I don't want to hide on a closet shelf
A lot of secrets about myself,
And fool myself as I come and go
Into thinking that nobody else will know
What kind of man I really am;
I don't want to dress myself in sham.
I want to go with my head erect,
I want to deserve all men's respect
And in this struggle for fame and pelf
I want to be able to like myself.
I don't want to look at myself and know
That I am a bluster and empty show.
I cannot hide myself from me;
I can see what others can never see;
I know what others can never know,
I cannot fool myself, and so
Whatever happens, I want to be
Self-respecting and conscience free.
-Edgar A. Guest-
Life's challenge.
"No matter what kind of age maybe approaching us, I know a treasure that will never change. It is the goals we have in life that are the fountainheads of all things. It is having a purpose in one's life that gives rise to everything.
From here on, no matter how bitter the winds that may sweep over the world, our greatest asset will be our wills."
At times, there are moments when we young adults seems to have all the answers to our predicaments, to know everything and everything. How many of us have promised at one time or another that we shall not replicate the mistakes of our elders? That we shall not be like our leaders who have brought nothing but ruin and disaster our people?
We have heard often enough that the youth are the hope of our fatherland. But how have the very same idealistic youth of yesterday, filled with vision, hope and passion to change the world , become the persons and leaders they detest and have promised not to emulate.
The answer lies partly in the realities of the times. It is partly due to what we are made to confront day in and day out, a substantial portion of which comes from family, peer, and/or societal pressure. Many youth have failed because our leaders themselves have begun to fail.
They have compromised, surrender or worse succumbed to temptations to acquire wealth through dishonest means.
In this sense, we only need to remind ourselves, never to allow our dreams to remain only in the innermost recesses of our minds. We should aspire for our ideals to be transformed to something greater than our day to day subsistense.
Greatness, prosperity and progress were achieve by those who neither conformed to the ordinary nor dare change the obvious. Were it not for scientists, inventors, the charlatans, inane and the insane of their times, none of what we are and where we are would be possibly today.
For is it not a truism that the ordinary are simply reduced to mere statistics and footnotes of history while those who did make a difference are enshrined in the chapters and volumes in the bigger book of the story of life?
Discovery is actually seeing with new eyes...
Were not here just to read, see, rewrite and be amazed or what so ever, by the works of others. Were here to developed it.. improve it.. and make it something new..
From here on, no matter how bitter the winds that may sweep over the world, our greatest asset will be our wills."
At times, there are moments when we young adults seems to have all the answers to our predicaments, to know everything and everything. How many of us have promised at one time or another that we shall not replicate the mistakes of our elders? That we shall not be like our leaders who have brought nothing but ruin and disaster our people?
We have heard often enough that the youth are the hope of our fatherland. But how have the very same idealistic youth of yesterday, filled with vision, hope and passion to change the world , become the persons and leaders they detest and have promised not to emulate.
The answer lies partly in the realities of the times. It is partly due to what we are made to confront day in and day out, a substantial portion of which comes from family, peer, and/or societal pressure. Many youth have failed because our leaders themselves have begun to fail.
They have compromised, surrender or worse succumbed to temptations to acquire wealth through dishonest means.
In this sense, we only need to remind ourselves, never to allow our dreams to remain only in the innermost recesses of our minds. We should aspire for our ideals to be transformed to something greater than our day to day subsistense.
Greatness, prosperity and progress were achieve by those who neither conformed to the ordinary nor dare change the obvious. Were it not for scientists, inventors, the charlatans, inane and the insane of their times, none of what we are and where we are would be possibly today.
For is it not a truism that the ordinary are simply reduced to mere statistics and footnotes of history while those who did make a difference are enshrined in the chapters and volumes in the bigger book of the story of life?
Discovery is actually seeing with new eyes...
Were not here just to read, see, rewrite and be amazed or what so ever, by the works of others. Were here to developed it.. improve it.. and make it something new..
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