True happiness
What is true happiness? i gave it a thought on my way to tuition this afternoon.
A rich student who has tuition everyday got 5th position in class. Fantastic it is, but his mother who is the CEO of a listed company asked his son "Why can't you get the 1st position in class? do you know you are wasting my tuition money?!!"
Another poor kid who do not even have money to buy assessment books got position 30th out of 35 students in his class. His mother, working as a cleaner at a hawker center praised him " Son, i know you have tried you best to study and i'm so proud of you!"
Both students have worked hard. In fact, the rich student worked even harder considering the tuition work he is getting. However, only the poor kid feel happy, for getting 30th in class. He must be really happy, he can't possibly get happier than knowing his mother is proud of what he has done.
When a person's happiness is genuine and long lasting, it must be due to other people's action or feeling(e.g.wedding, pregnancy, success of the children), not money and nothing else.
Nowadays, everyone talk about how to earn more money. Money is important indeed, but it's not always a blessing to have lots of money. For children, what else they can do with money after getting the latest hp, comp or PS2? Do they need the time and care from their parents more or a PS2 more? Money does nothing but rids the children of precious time the parents spent with them. In some cases, money is even the excuse for the parents to neglect the children and pursue their own ego.
Since happiness is precious, but as cheap as dirt, everyone is endowed with the chance to feel happy. I think people nowadays should stop groaning about stress from work and study, they are merely excuses. Look into and fix existing relationship in family and friends, at the same time look for more true friends.
A rich student who has tuition everyday got 5th position in class. Fantastic it is, but his mother who is the CEO of a listed company asked his son "Why can't you get the 1st position in class? do you know you are wasting my tuition money?!!"
Another poor kid who do not even have money to buy assessment books got position 30th out of 35 students in his class. His mother, working as a cleaner at a hawker center praised him " Son, i know you have tried you best to study and i'm so proud of you!"
Both students have worked hard. In fact, the rich student worked even harder considering the tuition work he is getting. However, only the poor kid feel happy, for getting 30th in class. He must be really happy, he can't possibly get happier than knowing his mother is proud of what he has done.
When a person's happiness is genuine and long lasting, it must be due to other people's action or feeling(e.g.wedding, pregnancy, success of the children), not money and nothing else.
Nowadays, everyone talk about how to earn more money. Money is important indeed, but it's not always a blessing to have lots of money. For children, what else they can do with money after getting the latest hp, comp or PS2? Do they need the time and care from their parents more or a PS2 more? Money does nothing but rids the children of precious time the parents spent with them. In some cases, money is even the excuse for the parents to neglect the children and pursue their own ego.
Since happiness is precious, but as cheap as dirt, everyone is endowed with the chance to feel happy. I think people nowadays should stop groaning about stress from work and study, they are merely excuses. Look into and fix existing relationship in family and friends, at the same time look for more true friends.
posted by Roger at 10:53 PM
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