One hundred years from now,
it will not matter what kind of car I drove,
what kind of house I lived in,
how much I had in my bank account,
nor what my clothes looked like.
But the world may be a little better
because I was important in the life of a child.
*from the library of GD - purity lover-
"I am not the builder of the temple
I am only the bearer of the stones
I am the generation that has to perish,
so that a better one may rise from my grave."
I finally finished my stupid activity. Huahaha oh my goodness’ why I did a stupid thing like that? Yea everything has gone, I wish I could find people who can change my point of view about life and can help me to reduce my stupidity. Life is too short for us to make it petty or cheap.
A small little hut was built in a beautiful green hill. In the small little hut lived an old man who was well-known for his wisdom. Lots of people came from all over the place to seek for his advice. One day came young man who had traveled the distance as long as three-day in his doorstep. Having met the old man, he begged the advice as to how to conquer his anger which was uncontrollable.
After looking at him for a while the old man started to say, “well for you young man, remember this, every time you feel that you are offended or being tempted to get upset remember, seven steps of patience. For that, do, seven steps backwards, seven steps ahead and, again and again for seven times. Do it seriously and count every time you step. Afterwards, it’s your time to make a decision. Feeling the he had received such a wise advice the young man returned to his village. He was very sure that this problem with anger had found its perfect solution. Three day journey needed to go back home. It was late at night when he reached home. Feeling very tired, dirty, dusty, and starved, he went into his wife’s bedroom. A picture of nice dinner and warm water for bath were occupying his mind as he walked in, but he felt thunder stricken when he saw his wife was sleeping with someone else.
Upon seeing the view, his temper went over the roof. Emotion blinded his healthy mind. “I don’t believe this, this is ridiculous, I have only been away for three days, and she has dared to invite someone to the bed!”. Without another thought he drew his sword, ready to slay the two people he saw. Suddenly he remembered what the old man was telling him just three days ago. While holding up his sword, that man decided to practice the old man’s advice. He steeped backwards seven steps, counting out loud, and then moved forward seven times, again counting. And he kept on repeating those gestures, until finally his footsteps awakened his wife.
As she uncovered herself from the blanket, the man had the second blow of his life, it was her own mother sleeping with his wife, wasn’t another man as he thought. Right at that point he was feeling so relieved, he was so thankful that he had waited and didn’t jump into any silly actions. If only his patience didn’t appear at the right time, he would have done something horrible towards people that he loved most and for that he would never be able to forgive himself as long as he lived.
Patience is a gem in life that all of us have to have. When we are still struggling to achieve what we want from life and haven’t been successful, we need to have “ren” or patience. Patience is struggling can also be meant as persistence, hard works, mentality that stands up to all kinds of rejection. When we are facing others who are in their emotional state, we need to keep our patience. When we ourselves are in the angry state we also need a brake in the form of patience. Patience in this sense is the grown up ability to sustain and maintain our balance so that we can control our actions and avoid doing destructive actions, Which will cause regret.
Patience is the art of living that we have to master if we want to achieve the real success. Without patience, we will easily be trapped in negative communication and will be difficult for us to have positive and constructive relationships. Without patience we tend to act uncontrollably which ultimately in most cases will only invite regrets. On the contrary, practicing patience will reduce the regrets. So, When anger controls us, remember seven steps of patience.
"When the Bridge is gone, The narrowest plank becomes precious"
"I was complaining I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet"
"When you Lose health or wealth, you lose something; but when you lose integrity, you lose everything"
-GD-
