Create a Life, Not Just Life

"Your Successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.- The success and happiness will be very mean if you want to share with other people. "Albert Camus

To be able to simply live, maybe we need not bother to look for opportunities or thinking about how to improve the quality and benefit ourselves. However, as the most special creatures of God's creation YME, we are obliged to obtain meaningful life. We must do all it can. A wise proverb says, "Find a meaningful need and fill it better than anyone else. - Go for something meaningful, and use every opportunity that is better than anyone. "

There are several steps to make our lives more meaningful. The first step is to increase the willingness to learn. Humans have a remarkable mind, then use the mind to learn to make progress in life. We can learn from many things, among others is to learn to experience life, failure, everyday events, people and so on. So continue to increase the willingness to learn.

The second step of our lives so that more means are trying to do something to get closer to the desired dream. Work harder, more active or productive. This step is very effective in increasing the possibility of getting money, property or anything of value to humans.

One thing that should be used as guidelines that the hard work was not simply chasing 5 P, the power (power), position (position), pleasure (joy), prestige (the authority) and prosperity (wealth).Every effort is oriented only to the five it does guarantee success or even the result of abundant

modulus, but does not guarantee a pleasant end. An example is a fact about eight people millionaires in the United States who gathered at the Hotel Edge Water Beach in Chicago, Illinois in 1923. They are the people who are successful, but the tragic fate 25 years later.

One of them is Charles Schwab, CEO of leading steel companies at the time, which is Bethlehem Steel. But Charles Schwab total bankruptcy. So he was forced into debt to finance her life for 5 years before he died. The second was Richard Whitney, president of the New York Stock Exchange. But this man had spent the rest of his life in prison Sing Sing. The third person was Jesse Livermore, the king of shares "The Great Bear" on Wall Street. But he committed suicide.

The fourth person was "The Match King", Ivar Krueger, CEO of copyrights, who also committed suicide. Likewise with Leon Fraser, Chairman of the Bank of International Settlement, he committed suicide. The sixth is Hupson Howard, CEO of the largest gas company in North America. But he was mentally ill and being treated in a psychiatric hospital

until the end of his life. Arthur Cutton was previously the largest flour mill owners in the world, but he died in another country. Meanwhile, Albert Fall, the time he was a member of the president's cabinet

United States. But he died at his home in Texas when he had just come out of prison.

In this world not a few people who had been very successful, but languished in the last years of their lives. Their lives as if it does not mean though previously very wealthy. The best efforts it can make a big success, but that does not mean a guarantee of a final human life as meaningful.

Therefore the next step we have to do is to balance hard work with acts of kindness. A writer in the 20th century the French nationals, André Gide, it defines the good as follows: "True kindness presupposes the faculty of Imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others. --

Real good is the ability to feel pain and happiness of others. "

Hard work balanced with doing good will result in high spirit to get more than what is needed.This was driven by a desire to be able to share happiness with others. In the end the good of the positive impact of the spirit of life, motivation, and progress

and economic attitudes. James Allen, author of a book called As a Man Thinketh says, "Thought and good deeds could not bring bad results; thoughts and bad deeds are not

may bring good results. "

By studying, working hard and doing good then we will be able to create a life far more meaningful. The steps as described above proved very effective also make a positive impression of ourselves is not easily forgotten. I believe that we still have a lot of opportunities and potential to obtain the precious lives wherever and whatever our job.

Source: Make A Life, Not Merely A Living - Create a Life, Not Just Life by Andrew Ho.(www.resensi.net)

Live's to Give

On one afternoon when I got home from work by riding a motorcycle, I was served a little drama is very interesting, a little boy aged about ten years with very sigapnya sidelines overtaking vehicle density disebuah red light intersection in Jakarta.

With a package that enough diayunkannya blue bicycle, while distributing the packet, he greeted familiar everyone, from Tailor newspapers, street sweeper, until Mr. Tuna homestead police.

This scene made me interested, my mind immediately drifted to imagine what the child is given with the package, did he sell? "What if he sells a homeless may become permanent customers or ...??, To kill my curiosity, I followed the little boy until disebrang road, then I immediately greeted the child to whom I talked. De, "may my brother asked"? please brother, if I may know that just ketukang sister newspapers distributed, janitors, even begging the police officer, then what?, oh ... that little parcel of rice and side dishes kak, kak's why!, with a little surprise, as he asked . Oh .. no! , Brother Just interested in how you distribute the package, you look familiar and quite familiar with them. What you've known them? Then,

This little brother began, "First! I and my mother just as they were only a homeless ", every day working just a lot of people expect compassion, and the big brother live in Jakarta know that difficult, until we often do not eat, our daytime heat and nighttime cold plus our during the rainy season we were often in the rain, when we remember the first time, we were very, very sad, but after my mother opened the rice shop, our family life began to improve.

Thus the mother is always reminding me, that there are still many difficult people like us first, so if we are given a sufficient livelihood, why we can not share them.

That my mother always said "life should mean for many people", because when we go back to the Creator there is nothing we carry, just one that we bring the love of neighbor and the Charity and our good deeds, if today we can practice something good for many people, why we should delay.

Because according to my mother aged man is too short, today we have it all, but an hour later or tomorrow we are called the Creator, "What do we bring"?. The words of this little brother was stabbed my heart, at that moment I felt like a useless person, even I felt no more than a piece of junk is useless, than this little brother.

I have been feeling a great person with education and high position, but for something like this, I feel more stupid than this little boy, I am ashamed and very embarrassed. Well .. Lord, Forgive me, it was wealth, greatness and position did not take me to Thee.

Only the perfect love and faith and your hope to be with me who went to Heaven. Thank you little brother, you are my angel that brought me from my sleep.

(Love is patient, love is kind; he was not jealous. Does not demand its own way. He did not do that are not polite and did not seek its own way. He is not angry and does not save other people's mistakes. He does not rejoice because injustice, but because of the truth. He covers all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails.)

Do the little things, by sharing this story with everyone, hopefully the results obtained from this small thing a big impact for many people.

Thomas - 26/7/08

Source : www.resensi.net