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Friday, April 02, 2010

Took this from kek's note, you know I do not post a long post because simply I am too lazy. Haha!
Was so impacted when I see how God really moved into her life, she is someone who came from buddhist background, bad experiences with Christians, do not believe in God.
She is only a christian since jan and whatever she shared was just so deep!
Glad to have idealistic friends like her man!

Here is an article I read from a table calendar=) Coz today is the first day of the month, so when i flipped the calendar, I saw this=)

Going Round In Circles

An American investment banker was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked. Inside the small boat were several yellow fin tuna.

The banker complimented the fisherman and asked how long it took to catch them. The fisherman replied, 'Only a little while'

The banker asked, 'Why don't u fish longer and catch more fish?'. The fisherman replied, 'With this I have enough to support my family.'

The banker asked, 'What do you do with the rest of your time?'. The fisherman replied, 'I sleep late, fish a little, play with my children, take siesta with my wife, Maria, stroll into the village every evening, sip wine and play guitar with my amigos.'

The banker suggested to the fisherman to spend more time fishing, earn more and buy a bigger boat. With the proceeds from the bigger boat, buy several boats. 'Eventually you'll have a fleet of bots. Instead of selling your catch to the middleman, you could sell it directly to the processor, eventually open your own cannery. You would control the processing and distribution. You would then have to leave this small coastal village and move to the city where you will run your expanding business.'

'Then after that?', asked the fisherman. The banker laughed,'When the time comes, you could sell your company stock and become very rich.' 'After that?' The banker replied, 'Then you would retire. Move to a small coastal village, sleep late. fish a little, play with your kids, take siesta with your wife, stroll the village in the evening, sip wine and play guitar with your amigos.'

Sometimes it's best to be contented. There are 2 things to aim in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. ~Logan Pearshall Smith~

P.S.
We are often get caught in this paradigm, the society expectation of our generation, our life. There is no way that we can deny that our mind is shaped by the tradition, culture and expectation in this society. When we were young, we were put into this rigid education system that we were often only exposed to the thing that the government/immature adults want us to do. Our life is often aligned with the vision of the nation. Do we have a choice? NO. Sometimes, yes, it seems like we have a choice in this little box that we live=) We can choose the subjects that we wanted to study, the school that we wanted to go, or even work (e.g. choose one of the big 4 accountacy firm), and life partner (must be partner that is from same society level, i.e. a degree holder at least) but is that all? Aren't these all fall within the expectation of the society? We are not given the liberty to choose, instead, we are force to choose~ Yes, this society expectation is quite reliable to some extend becoz it gives us secure future, less invariability, security in comfort zone, be a patriotic child, but when you take the first step and go beyond this tiny little box, you'll realised that the world is so big that there are more other choices that we can choose, BIG choices for our BIG life! Just like the story above, the banker was caught in this paradigm that he never realised that he is going round in circles.. Do not get caught by this circle, my dear friend=) Live the life of a fisherman.. u have enuf for all that you need to live for now (if not, u might have been dead)!!

Do you believe God has a greater plan for you than the plan that you have for yourself=) Everyone is called to play different role by God.AMEN! but here is the problem... how many actually do what God asked us to do? Even Moses failed to follow when God asked him to 'SPEAK' instead of 'HIT'(Numbers 20:8)~ hahahha.. many asked 'Does God talk to us? Is there any website called TalkingGod.com, or is there any phone number that we can call so that we noe wad God has for us, or even a msn contact?' Even for believers.. like wad pastor said today, we may drift out of God's provision and lead a life of our own, an earthly and material life. When we sometimes faced with a decision-making situation, we will evaluate and LISTEN from others rather than our own voice, the little voice that live within us=) We often choose to believe in earthly words too much, rather than heavenly words. We commonly listened to the government new economic policy and align our life with it, so that we may benefit from it... or stimes when our teachers say that education is good (even they can't convinced themselves after going thru the decade of suffering), we follow their words.. All these put us in our comfort zone, rather than our dreams. Too many times we are looking for COMFORT instead of our dreams and the words and plans that God has for us=) (courtesy of Jerlyn's Blog=) )

While you are still young and you have the choice to choose, choose wisely. Happiness is a choice, but not a treasure that you gotta keep seeking in life=) And the true happiness has already been found, for you already have God living in your heart. What is happier than happiness, when the true joy comes from within. Be contented=)

-Every light that u see is a Rainbow, you just gotta diffract your mind slightly & everything will then look so Beautiful~ Life is beautiful if u know how to live-

smile,
kEK