alright, I have a story here that you might probably able to relate to:
(and once again I am stating this clear, the 'YOU's in my posts are not pointed to any specific individuals, it meant the general readers of this blog, thank you.)There was once a famous restaurant that served only soup. Yes soups, thousands and thousands bowls sold daily. The people loved it so much that every day there would be a long queue outside the restaurant.
Unfortunately, years past and the main chef died from old age. There came a new chef, he was mean and cruel towards his kitchen assistants and waitresses, no one in the restaurant liked him. Days and weeks past and customers started to complain about the degrading taste of the soup, and the queue grew shorter and shorter. Not long after, the crew in the restaurant had a big fight with the chef and everything fell apart.
Not realising his folly, the chef blew his top and chased everyone away from his restaurant, even all the kitchen assistants, the waitresses, the cashier and even the delivery boy. Every day, he would sit in the kitchen, looking at his pot of soup and thinking to himself, "my soup taste the best, they just don't know how to appreciate it! They are just jealous!".
He started to grow miserable over every single thing, whenever he saw smiles on others, he would cry out to himself, "look! they are mocking at me again, they are an evil bunch!". And when people step into his restaurant (not knowing what had happened), he chased them away shouting "you people just hate my soup don't you? Stay away and stop bothering me!".
Finally, after three long years, the police found him hanging dead in the restaurant with a note beside his pot of soup which wrote: "I know all of you hate me! You all just wished that I would die quickly don't you! I finally had enough of this world! The mocking, the misery, the pain I'm suffering from! No one knows! Now that I am going to go away from this world, you all would be happy eh?!" with that he ended off.
What's the ending?
A dead body with handcuffs on his wrist because suiciding is a crime & no one to bother about him (nor be happy with his death) because what can they do?
There are a few things this man did not do which could have made a
turning point to his life,
1stly, he failed to value comments from others (that his soup don't taste nice.).
2nd, he failed to understand that these comments are there to help him improve and not to shame him nor degrade him.
3rd, even if he understood the importance of their comments, he failed to use them to make a change.
4th, he refuse to look at his failure and admit that he needs a change.
5th, he focused too much on his problem than the solution to it.
6th, he thinks too much because he misunderstood about people's intention and it turns into grudge.
Anyway, I believe I used quite a number of times of the word "failed", and here I wanna say that, FAILURE is not a choice neither is it an option. Like the old chinese proverbs saying "failure is the mother of success.". Every great successor has his/her own part of failure, we may not see it but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Every inch of success takes 10 kilometres of failure same as every good results take efforts and hard
work to accomplish.
Without failure, who would know the true taste of success?Labels: failure, success
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Sunday, November 25, 2007
NO ONE CAN CHANGE YOU EXCEPT YOU!greatest failure is not in one's results but in one's heart. When you proclaim failure in your heart, all that you do fails. When you refuse to think the right way, no one can help you except yourself. And, any failures you face in the future, you have yourself to blame, for walking to a cliff when you knew long ago that there is one there.
Decisions = Destiny.
The path that you'll take, lies with you. Don't know which path to take? Ask Him.
God bless,
Junyong
KLabels: failure, junyongk
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Saturday, September 22, 2007
Good morning to all.
You must be wondering what am I doing at 4.30a.m with blogger. But because I went to bed at 11p.m and woke up at 3a.m and had been listening to
Joyce Meyer's podcast since then till now. I kinda have a revelation that I wish to share with you about.
I remember previously I talked about Christianity life is
not a bed of roses, and that is really super true. Why? It's funny that most people really see things so magically. By being a christian does not make you free from sins, you do not transform
immediately even after salvation (born again).
What we really need to do is to renew our minds and heart. It's not a bed of roses because it does not comes automatically, we have to
DO it. Look at the commandment, "love your neighbors and people around you". Doesn't that sound easy? But what really is difficult is the
DOING part. We tend to expect a tree out from everyone, but nobody realise that we have to start from a
SEED! It is not a immediate thing, we grow slowly, with sufficient nutrients and nourishing! It is an action that is not easy to take and it really takes some time.
Just heard the podcast about complaining, and it is so true we spend much of our time daily complaining about this and that. And the truth is that, no amount of complaining would change the circumstance you are in. Instead, it traps you in the circumstance more and more that you'll eventually sink in.
I just realise that, hey, there are actually more things in this world that we ought to be thankful rather than complaining. A few things you could thank God for right now: The air that you breathe, Life, your limbs (if you have them), family and friends, a computer with internet to use, my blog, this message, and
NOW! Look, we really do take things for granted ain't we? And when God takes it back, we complaing and grumble like it's actually ours in the first place.
The road is
narrow and it isn't as easy to walk on as imagined. But this is the test from God. Does a examiner set an easy examination paper for a important examination? Imagine that God is like a coach, teaching us and helping us along the way, and then really putting us to a test so as to select us for the olympics. Common sense tells us that the coach would not just select a student any-o-how to join the competition. It is really after careful and fine selection for the best. Yes, like an interview.
So it is not base on our own strength and might to walk this road because He is there to support and help us. But it is up to us to
make the decision right now. A teacher can give you all the knowledge you need to pass the test, but
how much do you appreciate and want to pass the test? The answer is there, but the
choice is for you to make.
The road is yours to take, and I'm not talking about the test we take in school, but the tests that are given to us in our daily life.
Slacking, not studying, not learning and
FAIL.orWork hard, learn, study, endure hardship,
PASS and
SUCCESS.[ Side tracking a little, because I don't want to make a new post to push this post down. Making us of this chance, I'd like to thank my Aiai for her strong support to keep my fire burning for God, and also jL that constantly helps to motivate me towards my goals. I believe with strong relationships and encouragement like that, I'm able to move on stronger towards my destiny!And to make things a little sparkling and exciting here, I've decided to come up with a plan, that is I will always try to create some art work to post it up here, so this would be like a mini art gallery of mine. I can't say my work is good or that I'll constant post it up, but at least I think I should just try since I've got this vision for animation and a sudden re-interest in 3d modelling. Go go Junyong, I can do it! So can you! ]junyongK.Labels: art, bed of roses, choice, decision, encouragement, failure, GOD, Joyce meyer, junyongk, revelation, success, thanksgiving
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