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Today i went to popular. When i was browsing through some books at e chinese section, a title caught my eyes. It was le(4) guan(1) -> Optimistic. I picked e book up, and flipped e pages! I have not read much, just the first story. E first chapter is subtitled optimistic or pessimistic? N it kind of mentioned that its all up to oneself whether u wanna be optimistic or pessimistic.

I found the first story rather interesting!! Here it goes.....

This is how a piece of glass changes the life of a tiger shark. Dun think that the two do not linked... well actually... if u think far enouf... they might be linked.

There were tiger sharks living in the deep ocean. These animals spend their days preying of animals, and hiding from their predators so that they will not get caught by human beings. No animal knew the way of surviving in the deep ocean better than they do! This particular tiger shark was borned. It had no one to guide it along how to prey. It only can rely on its instinct. However, as it grew, it had more experience of how to hunt and it actually got better when hunting for preys.

Life was not smooth sailing though for this tiger shark, it got caught one day by the human. It does not mean it was a bad thing... Well actually, there are people feeding it everyday, and it need not worry abt hunting. Though the bad part was, it had to live in the small man-made pond.

One day, the people at the farm placed a piece of glass and separated the pond into half. On the other half lived the tiger shark. On the other half, they poured small fishes into it. Upon smelling food, the tiger shark swam fast, wanting to catch its prey. However, without knowing that there was actually a piece of glass there, it banged real hard into it! Not willing to be defeated juz like this, the tiger shark tried again! N of coz, it banged once again into the glass. It got hurt real bad after a few more attempts! It was bleeding.

After awhile, the glass was taken away. The fishes were now swimming freely in the pond. It watched them swam in front of its eyes. However, the tiger shark doesn't dare to juz swim up to it. If it had the courage to, it will hav a nice meal and need not starve.

After listening to this story wat had u guys learn?

hahaz, let's think abt it.

In life, it will not be smooth sailing always and definitely u'll banged into 'glass' or obstacles like that. No matter in which stage of life, obstacles will surface. The problem here is, will u hav the courage and be optimistic always and keep on trying to clear the obstacle in front of u? or u'll be like the tiger shark? after a few bangs on the 'glass', u dare not to do anithing again. Even if u're really very 'hungry'?

Life are always full of ups and downs. U'll faced a lot of obstacles in life and in the future. If u fell down, stand up again. If u fell from the ladder, climb up again. If u banged into something, do not be afraid, keep on trying and trying. Coz u'll nv noe when the obstacles will be cleared. If it was already cleared and yet u dared not do anithing, isn't it a real regret?? u juz need to try one more time to succeed!! People, nv ever give up and raise the white flag in front of the obstacles. On the contrary, u muz be even braver and fight it on. Whatever comes in ur way, juz tell urself 'I WILL BE ABLE TO OUTFIGHT IT' and something i really believe in is 'WHEN U SAY U CAN, IT MEANS U CAN!'

We onli live once this lifetime, we'll nv get the chance to go back in time. So whatever u wanna do, juz do it! Hav a goal and fight for it. No matter how tough the route is going to be, juz keep on walking yea! dun be like the tiger shark. Rmb, u hav to keep ur mindset to be optimistic, it definitely plays in part in helping u to muster up ur courage to fight the obstacles in front of u.

The chinese had a saying, shou(3) de(2) yun(2) kai(1) jian(4) yue(4) ming(2). It means after u had beared with it till the cloud is gone and the sky is clear, u'll see the moon shining brightly. I think little stories like that that makes ppl think and became clearer of their goals are really meaningful. hahaz, i'll try to post as mani of this as i can! Cya again!! got to sleep already!



This is life@
10:54 PM
♥Thursday, January 18, 2007