Persistent, way to success

Have you ever think of how a successful person can achieve his/her today's result? There are lots of people adore movie stars and singers, but have they ever think of how much hardship and dedication these movie stars/singers take to be able to achieve today's success?

Furthermore, everyone from scientists, intellects to primary school students recognise the success of Thomas Alva Edison. However how many people know that it takes him hundred times of experiments to invent bulb? From one trial to another, we could feel how Edison being persistent in achieving his goal.

Long time ago in China, there was Master Ming Hui. He felt that his disciple has no patience in doing things. Everytime when this disciple has problem or experiences failure, he would lost courage. He often gives up easily.

One night, Master Ming Hui gave his disciple a wood board and a small knife. He wanted him to slice the board with all of his might. After every first slice, the master would keep the board. And so on everynight, Master Ming Hui asks this disciple to cut/slice on the top of previous cut continuously. This lasts for several months. Until one night, the board is finally broken into half after this disciple slices the last cut.

Then Master Ming Hui said to this disciple: "You might never think that this board can be cut into half such easily. You don't even waste any energy. Do you know that your success in life is not depends on how strong your first strike is? But it depends on your commitment and being persistent in pursuing it."

We all look for success in our life, some of us are lucky enough to be able to achieve it, but some of us maybe not. Although we know that success takes more than luck, yet we often forget about how much hardship and commitment involved behind an achievement!

Road to success is a process. It takes continuous work. Every tower starts from sands. Once we progress, always be humble. As long as we do every single task wholeheartedly and continuously, we must be able to achieve success.

The finest fragment of fox fur, when sewn together, will make a robe.

Never Regret

In this life, there are many unfortunate endings resulted from a simple misunderstanding. Small thing such as a smell of unusual perfume on a husband's clothes can lead to a suspicion that he's having affair .

Sometimes we might be lucky to get the matter clear up quickly . But how many sadness and wounds have been created along the way? Let alone on how many chance we can have to clear up those misunderstandings .

Won't it be better if we think carefully and wisely before we make a decision? At least we won't make a mistake that would make us regret later .

Someone ever said that: "There is such a thing as destiny. But we as a human have choice. Whatever the choice we made, we should not regret and therefore lets choose it carefully".

Let's read the following story:
Long time ago at Alaska, there were a young couple who got married and the wife got pregnant. However, the wife past away from giving labour to a child.
The man then live a very busy life, working and look after his child. No one take care of the child, therefore he trained a dog. That dog was so clever, it listened and took a good care of the child. The dog could even bring a bottle to feed the child.

One day, the owner left and told the dog to look after his child. The owner went to other village and because of heavy snow, he was unable to come back.

The next day when he came back, his dog came and greet him. The owner opened the door and he saw there was blood everywhere. The child could not be seen anywhere. There was blood on the bed and he looked at the dog. It has blood on its mouth.

The owner thought that the dog might have killed the child and he then emotionally took a knife. He then cut down its head which killed the dog instantly.

Then suddenly, there was some voices. He found his child under the bed and there was no wound on him. He was confused and looked at the dog. There was a deep wound on the dog. And beside it, there was a wolf's corpse. On its mouth, there was blood from the dog's corpse. He then immediately realised that his dog had protected his baby from the wolf.

Isn't it sad ? Misunderstanding happens everytime when someone does not understand, when someone is impatient, lack of thinking and can not think from different perspectives. People get misunderstand when they cannot self-reflecting and when they are too emotional .

When misunderstandin happens, people can only think of other's mistakes . Therefore, it gets worse until something regretful happens. In the story, such a terrible event happened as a result of simple misunderstanding between a human and his pet. What else will happen if the misunderstanding is actually involve 2 people?

Life can be tricky sometimes, but at least let us think twice before we act... Talk to that person! No matter how hard it is! Deep breath and encourage yourself!

Nothing is more worst than having too many things that we regret when we grow old...

Suspicious and Misunderstandings

Long time ago, there was a shoemaker who lost one of his equipments. He suspected that it was his neighbour who stole his utensil. And his suspicious was growing as the day passed . Whenever his neighbour talked or stayed at home, this shoemaker couldn't help but getting more suspicious .

One day, there were few people came to see this neighbor. The shoemaker was even more suspicious. One day, this shoemaker was going to store his new made shoes into a cupboard. But when he opened it, all shoes fell out. When he picked up those shoes, he found the utensil that he's been looking for under the cupboard . In fact, he just realised that one of his workers must've put the utensil on the floor and accidentally kicked it. Finally, all of his suspicions and misunderstanding towards his neighbor are gone.

From this story, we can see that as a human being we need to have a strong foundation towards how to be a descent person and how to handle problems properly. One of the difficulties of being a human is to control emotions and desires. Upon that all, we have to have a stabilized mind.

On handling the problem, difficulty lays on how to make a decision under various circumstances where there are many conflicts involved . Therefore when we face a problem, suspicious is OK, but we should not be too emotional. Even more, we need to be more careful and able to distinguish right and wrong. Only when there is an evidence, we can make a decision and take action. Otherwise, a wrong decision might lead to a wrong action which could then harm ourself besides harming others and turn the problem into worst.

A wrong decision is like throwing a stone into the sea and it could never be retrieved back.

Anger

There are many times in our life when we feel angry . We are angry towards people, we are angry towards the world and even more we could get angry towards ourselves . We are angry because things are not going smoothly as we like. We are angry because of our dissapointment. We are angry because we could not fullfill our needs/desire. Even more, we could get angry because we are dissapointed with our own self .

Everytime we get angry, we'd like to express it through shouting, damaging and hurting people . But did you know, after we do all of those stuffs, the problem is still there and it won't go away ? Even more, we put our relationships with people around us like friends and family at stake. So what should we do ?

Lets read the following story:

One day, a teacher asked his students: "Why someone would often shout or talk loudly when he/she's angry?" After thinking for a while, a student answered: "Because at that time, he lost his patience and therefore he shout".
"But..." the teacher asked back, "the person he spoke to is standing just right to him. Why should he shout? Is it because he could not speak softly?"
Almost all of the students gave the reasons they could think of. However none of those answers are satisfying.

So the teacher said: "When two persons are angry to each other, their hearts are separated although they are close to each other physically. Therefore, they have to shout. But strangely, the louder they shout, the angier they become and the gap between their heart is getting bigger. As a result, they have to shout louder."

The teacher then continued: "On the other hand, what will happen when two people fall in love? They are not shouting but they speak softly and gently. No matter how soft they speak, both of them could listen to it clearly. How can this hapapen?"

The teacher then looked at his student and they all went into deep thinking but no one answering the question. Then he said, "It is because when two people fall in love, their hearts stay next to each other. At the end, even without a word, they could understand each other."

He continued, "When you are angry, don't keep a distance between your hearts. Even more, don't use words that could create distance between your heart and others. During this time, say nothing could be a WISE thing to do. Because TIME will help you going through this."

It is hard to control ourself when we are angry. However, sometimes we need to control our emotions for the sake of everything. We never want to do anything that'll make us regret once this anger is gone . Therefore, lets calm down and speak less when we are angry. Do something you enjoy and always tell yourself: "There is no unsolve-able problem in this world. All it takes is time and patience" .