"So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning." - Morrie Schwartz
It has always been strange to me of why those things which we normally admire in a certain individual are most of the time associated with failure in our system. And those that we detest, like greed and being self-centered, are the ones with success... that while we admire the first quality, we then love and praise the produce of the second...
It's not so long time ago when a group of Australians landed the Philippine archipelago. They invested, built and established a stronghold of their business in the land thinking that the misbehaviors they have had with their business particularly with their employees before, way back in their own land, would be eliminated or would be avoided by employing Filipinos instead of their own race... but the scene that they're trying to avoid are eventually the scene that they're about to handle and manage, as it's becoming surreal as time continues to fly...
Desire is not bad. It is really not bad at all. It only means that you are manifesting your destiny to its optimum level with the use of your optimum potential... and this is exactly one of the the very reason why we are here in this world. And just like what I have read from a certain article, if we only take greed as a driving force in pursuit of many things like happiness besides money then everything will just fall into their right places.
But it's another story when you cross the line. It would already be like stealing... and when we speak about stealing, it is considered to be a mortal sin as it was written in the 'HOLY Book': "thou shall not steal". Also, it would surely cause you a chain of negativity in your system wherein you will eventually steal from someone else or suffer more than others had to, more than others were supposed to, and it would be for a lifetime.
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7 COMMENTS:
Being focused to succeed to the point of being cut-throat determined isn't really bad. Although it also isn't such a laudible trait, I say it all depends on your set of audience. ;) Of course it's one thing to be determined and yet another thing to be a theif.
hear yea. first of all, i`d like to thank you for giving time to leave this entry a comment.
i have to agree. it`s really not laudable. and i have to emphasize that i`ve never stated here that it is. only that it is not bad. which is true.
Life is absurd. Some people who are good get the bad luck and the people who are doing the bad things get the good luck. hehehe Im also a Filipino from Cebu by the way.
yea, and because of this fact, i cannot help myself but ask why things always happen the other way around?
dOncha worry Aj.... “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed”
I noticed the same thing that's why I blogged about Willie Revillame and ABS-CBN check it out http://funnypolitico.blogspot.com/
I don't really think that those people we admire, are failures. It's just that we don't see success like they do.. For them they strive to be in the moment, live the moment and feel every bit of emotion. Rather than striving to be earn millions and let money define their existence. It's just a question of perspective. Probably the reason we see them as failures is because the success we have in our minds are simply too materialistic. well, whatever floats your boat. I just wish I could be like them, I mean stop conforming to society and create my own definition of success. Success based not on economics..
Hey I like your blogs.. Keep em coming.. :)
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