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Following is a letter by a Father to his son from a renowned Hong Kong
TV broadcaster/Child Psychologist. The words are actually applicable
to all of us, young or old, Children or parents.! This applies to
daughters too. All parents can use this in their teachings to their
children.

Dear son ,

I am writing this to you because of 3 reasons

1.Life, fortune and mishaps are unpredictable; nobody knows how long he lives. Some words are better said early.

2. I am your father, and if I don't tell you these, no one else will.

3. What is written is my own personal bitter experiences that perhaps could save you a lot of unnecessary heartaches.


Remember the following as you go through life:

1. Do not bear grudge towards those who are not good to you. No one has the responsibility of treating you well, except your mother and I.
To those who are good to you, you have to treasure it and be thankful, and ALSO you have to be cautious, because, everyone has a motive for every move. When a person is good to you, it does not mean he really likes you. You have to be careful, don't hastily regard him as a real friend.


2. No one is indispensable, nothing in the world that you must
possess. Once you understand this idea, it would be easier for you to go through life when people around you don't want you anymore, or when you lose what/who you love most.

3.Life is short. When you waste your life today, tomorrow you would find that life is leaving you. The earlier you treasure your life, the better you enjoy life.

4.Love is but a transient feeling, and this feeling would fade with time and with one's mood. If your so called loved one leaves you, be patient, time will wash away your aches and sadness. Don't over exaggerate the beauty and sweetness of love, and don't over exaggerate the sadness of falling out of love.

5.A lot of successful people did not receive a good education, that does not mean that you can be successful by not studying hard! Whatever knowledge you gain is your weapon in life. One can go from rags to riches, but one has to start from some rags!

6.I do not expect you to financially support me when I am old, neither would I financially support your whole life. My responsibility as a supporter ends when you are grown up. After that, you decide whether you want to travel in a public transport or in your limousine, whether rich or poor.

7.You honor your words, but don't expect others to be so. You can be good to people, but don't expect people to be good to you. If you don't understand this, you would end up with unnecessary troubles.

8. I have bought lotteries for umpteen years, but I never strike any prize. That shows if you want to be rich, you have to work hard! There is no free lunch!

9. No matter how much time I have with you, let's treasure the time we have together. We do not know if we would meet again in our next life.


With Love,

Your Dad...

SUCCESS

People often mistake success for the absence of ‘mistakes’ and ‘failures’. You can see it in the approving smiles for perfect resumes and unblemished career paths. Yet what really matters in success is the end result. Not how you get there. Most people who have so called perfect resumes and unblemished career paths also lead ordinary lives with minor yearly salary increments and muted improvements like the occasional car/house upgrade. The Donald Trumps, Robert Kiyosakis and Richard Bransons of the world on the other hand, faced bankruptcy, lawsuits, poverty.. ups and downs as deep as the valleys and as high as the mountains… yet in the end their triumph is far greater than mere mortals’ – billion dollar empires, worldwide fame and power. The truly success-driven don’t care about how they get there, only that they do get there.

So the next time someone looks down at you for not living an unblemished life, be it in career, personal finance or anything else, smile and remember that they have the common man’s thinking while you are planning for greater things to come.




Nnathan
(calculate how much you need for retirement at www.compare-insurance.com.my)

@~Mew~ the letter really nice

Thumb up for this

Yea agreed to the letter's content. Life is like a roller coaster. =\

hey, i'm sorry, but if my post is irrelevant or somewhat not in place, do remove it
anyhow, i want to ask, does anybody know any short videos (around 10 mins or less) on father and mother? i mean, touching and heartfelt videos regarding parents love? do redirect it to me if got. thanks

sorry if i'm out of place to ask this

This post has been edited by piring: Jun 10 2012, 07:25 PM

Put a Little L.O.V.E. in Your Heart
By John H. Sklare, Ed.D, Lifescript Personal Coach

I bet when you read the title to this article you thought that this was going to be a piece about passionate relationships. In one sense, you’re right, but it’s not about the kind of love relationship that you have with your significant other.

Instead, the relationship I want to address today is the kind of love relationship that you currently have with yourself and your life.

We could all agree that life can be tough, downright brutal at times. We all have hurdles to jump and hills to climb, but some people have the ability to rise above it and stay positive and engaged in life, even under the most trying of times.

On the other hand, some people are blown out of orbit by the smallest of things. So, what makes one person thrive under crisis, pressure and misfortune while others wilt and retreat?

I believe it’s a deep sense of appreciation for living and being ready and willing to fight for the life you want that makes the difference.

I created a four-letter acronym for improving the relationship you presently have with life. I chose the word L.O.V.E. as my acronym for a variety of reasons. The primary one lies in that old phrase, Love of life. It’s usually used to refer to someone who’s positive, happy and energetically engaged in life. People with a healthy love of life find that it colors their world in wonderful ways. Not to mention, those around you benefit too.

People who love life find every day precious, full of potential and hate to waste a single moment. They tend to be optimistic, positive, hard to frustrate and eager to learn.

So, if your current life isn’t giving you the sense of happiness and satisfaction you desire, I suggest you inject some L.O.V.E. into your day. Here are my four simple suggestions for living a healthier, fuller and more satisfying life:

Live like there’s no tomorrow.

Omit negative thinking and self-defeating or unhealthy behaviors from your life.

Venture out of your comfort zone and test your self-imposed boundaries.

Exercise your body and mind on a daily basis.

There may be nothing particularly groundbreaking about these four guidelines, but they’ll change your life for the better if you follow them. And what could possibly be a better memory cue than the word LOVE?

If you take my advice today and add a little L.O.V.E. to your life, the world will be a better place indeed!

Wishing You Great Health,
Dr. John H. Sklare

Source : www.lifescript.com

Hachiko has been an inspiration to thousands of people teaching them the meaning of unconditional love and loyalty. Such a touching living being this dog is. It is so beautiful how he is remembered and honoured till today in Japan.

Now a movie to further inspire millions around the world. Hachiko, you made me cry and further affirm how love and loyalty is so important in our lives. Thank you Hachiko, may you always take wonderful rebirths again and again. Om Mani Peme Hung. I haven’t met you Hachiko, but you live in my heart… you live in the hearts of all people who want unconditional love.


Last known photo of Hachikō – pictured with his owner Yaeko Ueno (front row, second from right) and station staff in mourning in Tokyo on March 8, 1935. (Photo provided by Shibuya Folk and Literary Shirane Memorial Museum)

The last picture of Hachiko. The photo was found and is being donated to a museum in Shibuya, Japan. Please click ‘Share’ send Hachi around facebook. Read below about him…
Hachiko was born in Odate, Japan in November 1923, a white male Akita dog. At the age of two months, he was sent to the home of Professor Ueno of the Agricultural Department of the Tokyo University. The professor’s home was in… the Shibuya district of Tokyo. The professor commuted to the agricultural department in Komaba and the agricultural experimental station in Nishihara.

Tragedy struck on May 21, 1925, when Dr. Ueno did not return because he had suffered a stroke and died at the university. Hachiko was eighteen months old. The next day and for the next nine years, Hachiko returned to the station and waited for his beloved master before walking home, alone. Nothing and no one could discourage Hachiko from maintaining his nightly vigil. It was not until he followed his master in death, in March l934, that Hachiko failed to appear in his place at the railroad station.

Hachiko was sent to homes of relatives or friends, but he always continued to await his master, who was never to return, at the train station.

The fidelity of Hachiko was known throughout Japan, owing to an article, “Faithful Old Dog Awaits Return of Master Dead for Seven Years” in the October 4, 1933 issue of Aashi Shinbun (Asahi News). Upon his death, newspaper stories led to the suggestion that a statue be erected in the station. Contributions the from the United States and other countries were received. Today, the statue of the Akita, Hachiko, pays silent tribute to the breed’s faithfulness and loyalty. A bronze statue of Hachiko was put up at his waiting spot outside the Shibuya railroad station, which is now probably the most popular rendezvous point in Shibuya. Hachiko was mounted and stuffed and is on now on display at the Tokyo Museum of Art.

Some facts and interesting information on Hachiko.

Hachikō (November 10, 1923–March 8, 1935), golden brown with cream color on upper face

Hachikō was an Akita dog born on a farm near the city of Ōdate, Akita Prefecture

In 1924, Hachikō was brought to Tokyo by his owner, Hidesaburō Ueno, a professor in the agriculture department at the University of Tokyo. During his owner’s life Hachikō saw him out from the front door and greeted him at the end of the day at the nearby Shibuya Station. The pair continued their daily routine until May 1925, when Professor Ueno did not return on the usual train one evening. The professor had suffered from a cerebral hemorrhage at the university that day. He died and never returned to the train station where his friend Hachiko was waiting.

Hachikō was loyal and every day for the NEXT NINE years he waited sitting there amongst the town’s folk at Shibuya Station waiting for his professor. The wife of the professor eventually moved away and didn’t take Hachiko with her. Hachiko lived outside, found scraps of food and kind locals gave him food also. The locals who witnessed this was so overwhelmed and moved by the love and loyalty of Hachiko. Every day without fail Hachiko would wait at the same spot at the same station for the Professor. Amazing!!

Hachikō died on March 8, 1935. He was found on a street in Shibuya. His heart was infected with filarial worms and 3-4 yakitori sticks were found in his stomach. His stuffed and mounted remains are kept at the National Science Museum of Japan in Ueno, Tokyo.

In April 1934, a bronze statue in his likeness was erected at Shibuya Station, and Hachikō himself was present at its unveiling. The locals wanted to honour Hachiko. It reminded them of what was important in their lives. What should be important in everyone’s lives that a simple dog taught them.

The statue was recycled for the war effort during World War II. In 1948 The Society for Recreating the Hachikō Statue commissioned Takeshi Ando, son of the original artist who had since died, to make a second statue. The new statue, which was erected in August 1948, still stands and is an extremely popular meeting spot.

(took this from Hachiko - A Lesson in Eternal Friendship )

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Added on December 18, 2012, 7:47 pmFiona Apple's Heartbreakingly Beautiful Letter To Her Fans About Staying With Her Dying Dog



On Friday, in a heartbreaking, handwritten letter addressed to "a few thousand friends I have not met yet," Fiona Apple announced that she is postponing the South American leg of her tour due to the ill-health of her beloved pit bull, Janet — a 13-year-old rescue dog suffering from Addison's disease and, more worryingly, a tumor on her chest.
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It's 6pm on Friday, and I'm writing to a few thousand friends I have not met yet. I'm writing to ask them to change our plans and meet a little while later.

Here's the thing.

I have a dog, Janet, and she's been ill for about 2 years now, as a tumor has been idling in her chest, growing ever so slowly. She's almost 14 years old now. I got her when she was 4 months old. I was 21 then — an adult, officially — and she was my kid.

She is a pitbull, and was found in Echo Park, with a rope around her neck, and bites all over her ears and face.

She was the one the dogfighters use to puff up the confidence of the contenders.

She's almost 14 and I've never seen her start a fight, or bite, or even growl, so I can understand why they chose her for that awful role. She's a pacifist.

Janet has been the most consistent relationship of my adult life, and that is just a fact. We've lived in numerous houses, and joined a few makeshift families, but it's always really been just the two of us.

She slept in bed with me, her head on the pillow, and she accepted my hysterical, tearful face into her chest, with her paws around me, every time I was heartbroken, or spirit-broken, or just lost, and as years went by, she let me take the role of her child, as I fell asleep, with her chin resting above my head.

She was under the piano when I wrote songs, barked any time I tried to record anything, and she was in the studio with me, all the time we recorded the last album.

The last time I came back from tour, she was spry as ever, and she's used to me being gone for a few weeks, every 6 or 7 years.

She has Addison's Disease, which makes it more dangerous for her to travel, since she needs regular injections of Cortisol, because she reacts to stress and excitement without the physiological tools which keep most of us from literally panicking to death.

Despite all this, she's effortlessly joyful & playful, and only stopped acting like a puppy about 3 years ago. She is my best friend, and my mother, and my daughter, my benefactor, and she's the one who taught me what love is.

I can't come to South America. Not now. When I got back from the last leg of the US tour, there was a big, big difference.

She doesn't even want to go for walks anymore.

I know that she's not sad about aging or dying. Animals have a survival instinct, but a sense of mortality and vanity, they do not. That's why they are so much more present than people.

But I know she is coming close to the time where she will stop being a dog, and start instead to be part of everything. She'll be in the wind, and in the soil, and the snow, and in me, wherever I go.

I just can't leave her now, please understand. If I go away again, I'm afraid she'll die and I won't have the honor of singing her to sleep, of escorting her out.

Sometimes it takes me 20 minutes just to decide what socks to wear to bed.

But this decision is instant.

These are the choices we make, which define us. I will not be the woman who puts her career ahead of love & friendship.

I am the woman who stays home, baking Tilapia for my dearest, oldest friend. And helps her be comfortable & comforted & safe & important.

Many of us these days, we dread the death of a loved one. It is the ugly truth of Life that keeps us feeling terrified & alone. I wish we could also appreciate the time that lies right beside the end of time. I know that I will feel the most overwhelming knowledge of her, and of her life and of my love for her, in the last moments.

I need to do my damnedest, to be there for that.

Because it will be the most beautiful, the most intense, the most enriching experience of life I've ever known.

When she dies.

So I am staying home, and I am listening to her snore and wheeze, and I am revelling in the swampiest, most awful breath that ever emanated from an angel. And I'm asking for your blessing.

I'll be seeing you.

Love,

Fiona

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/11/she-i...est-friend.html

This post has been edited by Polaris: Dec 18 2012, 07:47 PM

This is a wonderful quote that is inspirational to me right now and thought I share it here...

I saw a quotes really motivate me a lot.

"The pain you feel today will be the strength you feel tomoro."

Its not very inspirational or what, but yeah, I felt that today I did something that made me... realize things.


Retreated from my hectic schedule to just accompany my parents for awhile and while I was at it, gave them both a quick massage.

From where I stood to massage my dad's shoulder, I could clearly see his hair... black and grey hair intertwined with one another, and its clear to me that it'll only be a matter of time where there this black would be overwhelmed by grey.

Dad's shoulders felt stiff, as if he was tired, and strained from all the burden he had to carry for the family.

From the side his face, I could see wrinkles. They seem to only grow in numbers each time I look closely at my ever-loving dad's face.


Mum's grey hair wasn't as apparent as my dad's grey hair. Probably because she routinely dyes her hair black. But I could still see that the hair near her scalp was grey-ish as well, and if it wasn't for the dye, she'd have plenty of grey hair, too.

Mum's shoulders were stiff too. Probably because she had plenty of things constantly going around in her mind, and had to share a part of the family's burden like my dad.

Her wrinkles too, seem to only grow in numbers each time I look at them.


Putting everything together, I was struck hard with the undeniable truth that my dad and mum, is indeed, growing older as days pass.

I realize, I have been taking my parents for granted.

I realize, sometimes I ask for too much.

I realize, I haven't been treating my parents like a good son should have.

I realize, if I don't grab the chance to start making the necessary changes, I know I will have regrets.

I realize, if I don't start acting today, it might be too late.

I suppose there is much more that I can't describe.

So yeah... if you have the time for it (make time!), spend some time and maybe give your parents a good massage? I'm pretty sure it'd mean a lot to them

I don't really know what to type for a quote but, I do have a song I find quite relevant to it. (It's in cantonese though.)



Have a nice day everyone!

Some dose of kindness

Good life

Benefit of Failure

"We have more days to live through than pleasures. Be slow in enjoyment, quick at work, for men see work ended with pleasure, pleasure ended with regret.” — Baltasar Gracian

(Source: forbes.com)

ini ada satu short story paling best aku pernah baca..

The Egg By Andy Weir