We have always been told since young that, what you reap is what you sow. Do you believe in it? Or do you believe that it is 90% luck, 10% effort, or any other amount of percentage you cant think of?
Does what you reap and sow only belong to this life time. Or it goes back as far fetch as your previous life, or even the life before that.
I believe in fate. I believe that there is a destiny and that some things, however hard you try, you will never overcome it. Some people call is life, I call it luck. Some people have it, I bet you have an uncle, auntie, or ah Soh who keeps striking 4d until they scared. I bet it crosses your mind that why it wasn’t you. This is luck/ destiny/ fate/ Heng or whatever you can put a name to it.
But the above is the nice side of luck. Some people fall onto the bad side of luck. They everytime also cannot find a good thing in life. They feel that why people everytime tio 4d but they themselves buy 9977 set of numbers also won’t open!
But do you really think it’s luck?
Recently the missus said she was unlucky (not really recently, couple of weeks i guess). I told her something and of course she thinks i’m a bloody genius as always. I said ”When it rains, it is destiny. It was fated to rain. It was your bad luck to meet with the rain. But how you navigate to avoid the rain, or how you think of a way to prevent to be drench – this is effort.”
What I generally was trying to say was. For some things in life, it is really out of our control. If a dear family member pass away, its not your fault. Cause you are not a doctor, in fact there is NOTHING you can do. But to make things easier for the said person, that’s effort that anyone can put in.
At my age, the people I know are only interested in 2 things. To be successful and make a lot of money. Nothing wrong with that. In fact, as said in previous blog, this 2 criteria are by right what man are always aiming for if they are able to.
So let’s say you are a person whom is born with a wooden tea spoon in your mouth. Luckily for you (or maybe you deem it as unlucky), the government will pay for your education at least till you are in JC. If you really did put in effort, you could have gotten a scholarship and then a good life.
I know its very narrow and short example. But I think you can the drift.
Don’t go on blaming the rain, because the rain will always be there. Wherever you are now, rich, poor, fat, skinny, is really what you had been doing. If you stand tall, it’s because you deserve it. If you have mud on your face, most likely you rub it on yourself.
少不讀水滸, 老不讀三國…
