Brand new week and coming brand new year!~

Dear XXXXX,

To whoever it is. We have touched down to the 10th month of the year 2010 and it seems that time really passes fast. No one can really predict what will happen next. Right, you may say GOD could predicts. In fact, GOD does not predict, GOD plans!

At current moment, we really do need to appreciate rather than holding grudge. At times, I thought I'm rational enough to control my emotion. But it isn't. I allow my emotion to control me instead. This is not the right thing to do. Yet, I allow it to. Merely because I didn't want to think too much. Until someone stood up to me and tell me, "Hey, Fiona, are you out of your mind?!"

And there goes my answer, "Why?"

It's a neverending process if we would prefer to take grudge on people. In fact, Buddha, the great teacher taught us to not clinging to any uncertainty happening or things. The Lord Jesus, or the Great Allah told us to be rational and understanding the living's right. Everything happens for a reason.

So do you and me. We are here for a reason. If we do not know it today, we shall know it the next second for we must be here for a cause and an effect. In Buddhism term, it's called 'karma'.

Whatever term it is, it is actually referring to the same thing. Remember a story by a Zen master?

Let's recall right now.

Situation: Gentleman A, B and C are looking onto a cup of tea.

Gentlemen A, B and C: Wow... this drink is really good... not tastless like a glass of plain water. Yet, not harmful like other sugar-added drinks!

Gentleman A: This is actually 'cha' (in Chinese)
Gentleman B: No-no, this is 'teh' (in Malay)
Gentleman C: Both of you are wrong. This is actually the 'tea' (in English)

And so, the Master Zen who observed the whole incident voiced out:

Gentlemen, please cool down. All of you are right. Be it 'cha', 'teh' or 'tea' or anything else... aren't we referring to the same thing? Why do we have to argue over a thing we know it's the same... just that the names are different.

It is really mind opening. We always quarrel or argue over a minor thing on who's right or wrong. But when it comes to the conclusion, we are actually referring to the same thing whereby it's only the words we use to describe it is different. At the end of the day, it function exactly the same. Why don't we stop arguing and focus on the productivity?

After all, the human race mentioned that human race will never learn from HISTORY. We are only REPEATING IT! That's not the reality. Rather than misunderstanding others, why don't we put aside the 'misunderstanding' and start 'UNDERSTANDING' each other instead?

Is it still a contradiction?

Looking into this, are we living on behalf of others perspective or on behalf of our own?

Try to think about it... when someone is telling us, "You don't look good in that outfit", from a stranger, how would you react?

i. I care so much over what I heard and make an immediate improvement over it, looking forward for a positive comment from anyone

ii. I didn't even consider that a matter and go on with my day

iii. Or simply, "Hey you, what has it got to do with you?"

Perhaps that's the same thing that happens to us most of the time. When our friends are claiming that we are amazing, silly, nerd etc... it's still up to us on how would we like to react. Now that human should realise that every individual is unique and there it no 100% match of similarity, not even identical twins.

We have our rights to comment at most time but seriously, we do not expect it to actually change another's world, completely. Up to this day, there are still part of the human nation who would favour the 'superiority' over their status by getting control over somebody else's life. It is true... this happen at most of the time, without one realising it, at all.