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Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Life as we see fit

A month ago my mom emailed me a Chinese saying on how to live a happy life.  Her intention was to enlighten me on my views in life.  Here are some lines of the saying, lots of money or some money, most important is you have enough to survived.  This line was specially written for people who loves to complain having not enough.  My mother was planning to migrate a new country and I told her the food over there is fantastic!  We travel to that place a lot that is one reason that she and my sister planned to lived there for good.  My mother replied me that they will be on a strict budget and our favorable foods would have limits.  Then I told her that what about the saying that money is not a factor in living your life as long as you have enough to survived.  She laugh that it is a sufferer place and it won't be the same.  I came to realize that my mom was on denial on a lot of stuff.  She wants me to be enlighten but clearly it was her who needs enlightenment.  I constantly telling her that she got her life set and everything may not go according to her plan but everything is still good.  We may not be rich but I think that we have enough to eat and survive in out everyday lives and I thank that everyday.

We as people tend to forget that everything that we did would eventually come back to hunt us.  Mom was clearly one of them.  My dad passed away when I was at a young age but due to this fact I have grown to understand a lot of thong quite fast, it may be the fact that my environment let me do so or it was just in my nature to accept fact quite well. Wisdom may come from experience but I would not claim that I do have a lot of experience to advise others but I could say that all of my experiences made me to the person that I am today. 

I only believed that people would only change their life to the better once they accept completely everything that happened in their lives.  Mom from her view point saw that I was making my life difficult,  every time I tell her that " trust me I now know what I want" when she and what is that I always say that " I really like to have lots of money so that I would enjoy my life". She would say that money would buy me happiness and I would explain to her that I never said was not happy. All that I am saying I want more money to more happy!  

At the end, my sister surrenders to harshness of life and would go back to live her boring peaceful life.  I always give advise to my sister and brother but they tend not to listen to me.  It's like talking with a dog you tell them "NO" and they just smile and still do what they like and in the end, I will be cleaning up their mess.  They were really serious on migrating that they sold everything they owned and would go move on.  It was very funny cause not they got nothing to come back.  

My sister now feels frustrated and defeated.  My mother feels that they just wasted resources. I feel that at least they have learn something from this experience and that is "Always appreciate what you have and always plan all your moves success or failure cause doing something that only feels like would eventually turn out stupid". When we were little kids, dreaming that when we grow up we would be what we like but at the end most of us turn out best we can.  Living life is not about good or bad, it's all about how you perceived the situation at hand.  I choose to be then it should be. My wife taught me a very good lesson on this and that is life is life, good or bad is always how you see fit.

Here is the whole Chinese saying;

錢多錢少,夠吃就好;
賺多賺少,夠用就好;
人醜人美,順眼就好.
人老人少,健康就好;
家窮家富,和氣就好.
老公晚歸,回來就好;
老婆嘮叨,顧家就好.

孩子從小,就要教好;
愽士也好,賣菜也好;
長大以後,乘乘就好;
人盛人失, 能試就好;
房屋大小, 能住就好;
名不名牌,能穿就好;
兩輪四輪,能開就好;
老板不好,能忍就好;
一切煩惱,能解就好;
堅持執著,放下最好;
人的一生,平安就好;
不是有錢,一定會好;
心好行好,命能改好;
誰是誰非,天知就好;
修福修慧,來世更好.
天地萬物,隨緣就好;
很多事情,看開就好;
人人都好,曰曰都好;
你好我好,世界更好;
總而言夂,知足最好;
說這麼多,明白就好;
這些箴言,真的很好;