The Father, The Son and The Donkey

One day, a farmer intended to sell one of their donkeys in the market. He asked the son to come along. So, the father, the son and the donkey were then on their way to the market.

Upon passing Village A, a few villagers saw them and one of them said:' Hey, look at that! What kind of father will let the son walk and not ride on the donkey?'

The father heard it. He let the son rode on the donkey. They then passed by Village B. There, they heard somebody shouted:' Hey! What kind of son will let the father walk and he himself rides on the donkey?'

Upon hearing this, the father let the son came down and he rode on the donkey. Not far from there, someone shouted:' Hey! What kind of father will let the son walk and he himself rides on the donkey?'

So, the father helped the son up again. Both of them now rode on the donkey. Very soon, they heard somebody commented again:' Hey! How can you torture your donkey like that? Both of you are too heavy for the poor donkey!'

So, the father and the son decided to carry the donkey from there on to the market. The donkey wasn't comfortable. Very soon they came to a river. Upon crossing the bridge, the donkey struggled out of fear. At the end, the donkey fell into the river and be flushed away by the water. The father and the son were then went home empty handed.


The moral of the story was said to be: you can't please everybody.


Newer version, father was riding on horse and the son donkey. Newest, they use truck to transport the donkey to the market.


Some times, people don't know what to do in life. They learn from watching, listening or communicating with others.

All of the suggestions seem right to me. The father, may be, didn't try to please anyone but just obey with appropriate recommendations. But the last thing they farmer did was out of his own idea.................... A little too smart or act in hash at wit's end................

Every decision that we made has its consequences that we must bear. Sometimes, it is difficult to say right or wrong until much later. It doesn't matter how much effort we put into something that we are doing, it is the right decision that we make that counts the most. Someone said:' The greatest sadness in life is running into the wrong direction enthusiastically.'

As we are afraid of the unknown consequences, sometimes, we are afraid to make decision, afraid that it might be a wrong one out of so many and we have to bear the unfavorable consequences then....................

It takes many factors to determine a decision made. Sometimes, one out of many choices; sometimes, one out of no choice. The choices we have may increase with age, experience, surrounding and of course, how much we have.  Not too sure how to explain intuition and how to sharpen it.

What is the greatest challenge you ever faced in your life journey? What kind of decision making process have enable you to make the right choice? Do you believe in miracle? We would like to hear from you.........

Inspiring links:

1. Short stories by Paulo Coelho, Christ Cade etc

2. FREE intuition test

3. Inspiring Movies I like: ..... ( in the progress of listing..............)

The Sun and The Wind

 Do you remember the last argument you have with someone? What was it about? Was it about your strength? Was it about your weakness? Was it a gossip about somebody else that is not related to you? Or was it about getting into argument for arguing sake? 


Long long time ago, we have a story went like this:

The Sun

 The Sun and The Wind were arguing who was the stronger. They decided to test it on a passerby, whoever managed to make the passerby took his jacket off won. The Wind began to blow hard, harder and the hardest, while the sun watching behind a cloud. The passerby responded by holding on to his jacket closer as the win got stronger. The Wind gave up eventually. So, the Sun stepped in. The Sun shone the heat upon the passerby who soon took off his jacket as it was getting hot. The Sun won..... 

The Wind

The Sun and The Wind are both equally important to us. The Sun, functions as a free source of energy; The Wind, functions as a temperature regulator. Both of them work together to create climates, facilitate all kinds of human activities on earth and teach us about nature. The newer version of the story is they try to see who is stronger since the 90's and the earth wreaked havoc. We have global warming, heat strokes, droughts, huge storms etc..... Both of them are trying to out compete each other while living and nonliving things are facing mass destruction. We can't mediate their conflict directly but by changing the heat and water content generated by human activities, in other words, other elements, we can probably reduce the negative impacts.

Draught

Flood

Forest Fire

We are lucky nowadays that we have a lot of  things easily available. But the downside to this is: a lot of free time available for people to get connected. Sometimes, we talk, argue but still work together over important issues that are concerning us; sometimes we chat and bicker over small things that don't bother us at all.  Other times, we create arguments to tickle the brains, the mouth and may be the hand; stimulate the saliva production and may be anger in someone. 


The point is:


1. If we work together with each others' strength, amazing things can happen.


2. If we fight to see who is stronger, a lot of damages may be induced, wanted or unwanted.


3. Sometimes we need to solve a conflict by reducing the input of  other unnatural sources, which means, do not add heat or ice onto someone's plight, unless you want to make the matter worse. 


There was a funny story I heard some times ago:

Organs' fight over who is the most important.

One day, the organs in a human body was fighting to see who is the most important part of the body. 

The Brain said:' I'm the most important one. Without me, you can't even think, talk or walk.'

The Mouth said:' I'm the most important one. Without me, you can't even eat, speak or breath.'

The Heart said:' I'm the most important one. Without me, you will die instantly.'

The Liver said:' I'm the most important one. Without me, you will be malnutritious.'

......... Other organs were giving out their statements respectively and FINALLY....................,

The Ass Hole said:' I'm the most important one............................'

The whole body laughed without waiting for him to finish his sentence. Out of frustration, The Ass Hole went on strike. 

One day, two days had passed without any major change. Other organs continued to laugh. On the third day, the stomach started to feel discomfort. The following day, the brain started to feel dizzy. Then the whole body went limp, lethargy. Eventually, all of the organs in the body couldn't stand it anymore. They gave up and said:' Alright! Alright! You win! You are the most important one among us ASS HOLE!'........ 


The moral of the story is: EVERYONE is important. 

Do we really need to step on others to gain what we want sometimes? Any fair fight exist nowadays? 

A question for you to ponder today. I would very much like to hear from you.




Interesting links:


1. Will we still have seafood in the future?

2.  Funny Hub: which part of the body goest to heaven first

The Kites and The Swan

The neigh of a horse

The amazing kite

In the olden times, the Kites (Raptors) and the Swans could sing very well. But having heard the neigh of a horse (high-pitched sound uttered by a horse), they were so enchanted with the sound. They tried to imitate it. At the end, they remembered how to neigh but forgot how to sing.

The lovely swans

Human characteristics can be interesting and funny some times, if they do not irritate you they might make you laugh. So are animals may be. 

Enchanted by neigh of a horse??!! ....... The beauty is in the eye of the beholder; the enchantment is in the ear of the listener...... Sometimes, it is a little bit contradicting what we observe and what others see; how we hear and how others listen; how we perceive and how others understand over the same thing.


There are times, we don't know who we are, how we should look like, what we should say and what not, how we should think. From hairstyle to clothes to accessories to character, inside out or outside in, we are imitating someone, one way or another, particularly those we admire, like or worship. We are influencing each other, if not repelling.


Like a magnet, a person can have a repelling end with the opposite character or an attractive end with the like minded. We build these ends through medias (books, tv, movies, radio, internet), friends, neighbors, family members and teachers/mentors. We follow the trend, we sway here and there with the trend. We fall in and out of a trend. At the end, at one point, we lost ourselves in the midst of vastness of possible influences. A lot of problems might occur when we don't know who we are, what we are, where we are standing, where we are going.

LOST

GPS used in the modern age might lead us to no where sometimes, what more helping us to find ourselves. Getting to know ourselves a process about getting to understand ourselves. Finding a hairstyle that one is comfortable with, fashions that one likes, mentality that one builds on with age and experience. The ultimate stage is probably a neutral path that may take in opinions from both sides (positive and negative) but still preserve our own opinion, if we have. Loving kindness and acceptance towards ourselves and others.

With this understanding, we might have less trouble like 'why he/she doesn't like me? I'm depressed for a year', 'I'm upset for two months that you think my hair looks like infertile grass', 'I really feel like bashing him for saying that'................. We then, may be, can enjoy a lot more simple pleasure that comes into our lives daily. We might be a happier person being open but neutral; opinionated but reserved; contented, sincere and kind. 

My new image

I want to be happy, not compromising myself and yet not hurting others. How about you?

 Other useful links:

1. FREE sefl improvement tips

2. Personality test based on Jung and Briggs Myers typology

3. Find yourself via online quizzes

The Hare and the Tortoise

The Hare and The Tortoise

Long long time ago, in a big park, a Hare was wondering around iddlingly. He then met a passerby Tortoise. Out of boredom, he then challenged the Tortoise to race.

'Alright! Why not? Let's race' Said the Tortoise.

The Hare smirked. He was very confident to win.

'Ready, get start, GOOO!!!!!'.......... Off they started to race to the end point.

The Hare sprinting as fast as he could. Very soon, the Tortoise was out of sight. After a while, he felt too boring to race alone like this. He decided to take a rest under a big tree thinking he would still have time to dash  to the end point not far from the tree and win the Tortoise. There, he fell asleep soundly, unconsciously.

The Tortoise, even though walking very slowly, he was persistent. Enjoying himself in the park, he kept moving forward bit by bit.

'Ah??!!The Hare??!!' Acclaimed the Tortoise in silent when he saw the Hare was sleeping under a tree. He turned his head and smile at the sleeping Hare.

Not long after the Tortoise walked pass, the Hare woke up suddenly in dismay, realizing he had fallen into deep sleep. He looked ahead and found out that the Tortoise was already near the final line. The Hare picked up his speed like lightning trying to catch up.  Alas, too late. The Tortoise won the race.

The End

Some people shorten this story to 'Arrogance comes before fall'. Some people said 'Persistence wins, do not give up no matter what'.

Sometimes, it is not easy to draw a line between self confident and arrogant. To those who have low self esteem, they generally regard those who are confident as arrogant. The losers will also think the winners are arrogant. How do we differentiate then?

Self confidence, may be, is a quiet but firm belief and trust on oneself. It shows in time of need and challenge without hurting others. Arrogance, on the other hand, is over confident that tends to show off and hurt others along the process.

Depending on the upbringing and the experience of growing up, a person may grown up confident but humble or arrogant. The later might not have exposed enough to know a lot of extra ordinaries out side his comfort zone to behave so. They fall easily too, most of the time.

In the period of searching our identity, there are times, we might not know what to believe, how to behave. We, may be, can choose the crowd to avoid conflict or to build ourselves through reading, watch movies or TV programs and draw the crowd of  our chosen friends. What would you say?