Take time

A man came home from work late, tired and irritated, to find his 5-year old son waiting for him at the door.
"Daddy, may I ask you a question?"
"Yeah sure, what it is?" replied the man.
"Daddy, how much do you make an hour?"
"That's none of your business. Why do you ask such a thing?" the man said angrily.
"I just want to know. Please tell me, how much do you make an hour?" pleaded the little boy.
"If you must know, I make $20 an hour."
"Oh," the little boy replied, with his head down. Looking up, he said, "Daddy, may I please borrow $10?"
The father was furious, "If the only reason you asked that is so you can borrow some money to buy a silly toy or some other nonsense, then you march yourself straight to your room and go to bed. Think about why you are being so selfish .I work hard everyday for such this childish behavior."
The little boy quietly went to his room and shut the door. The man sat down and started to get even angrier about the little boy's questions. How dare he ask such questions only to get some money?

After about an hour or so, the man had calmed down, and started to think: Maybe there was something he really needed to buy with that $10 and he really didn't ask for money very often. The man went to the door of the little boy's room and opened the door.
"Are you asleep, son?" He asked.
"No daddy, I'm awake," replied the boy.
"I've been thinking, maybe I was too hard on you earlier," said the man, "It's been a long day and I took out my aggravation on you. Here's the $10 you asked for."
The little boy sat straight up, smiling. "Oh, thank you daddy!" He yelled. Then, reaching under his pillow he pulled out some crumpled up bills. The man, seeing that the boy already had money, started to get angry again. The little boy slowly counted out his money, then looked up at his father.
"Why do you want more money if you already have some?" the father grumbled.
"Because I didn't have enough, but now I do," the little boy replied.
"Daddy, I have $20 now. Can I buy an hour of your time? Please come home early tomorrow. I would like to have dinner with you”.

Share this story with someone you like. But even better, share $20 worth of time with someone you love. It's just a short reminder to all of you working so hard in life. We should not let time slip through our fingers without having spent sometime with those who really matter to us, those close to our hearts. If we die tomorrow, the company that we are working for could easily replace us in a matter of days. But the family & friends we left behind will feel the loss for the rest of their lives. And come to think of it, we pour ourselves more into work than to our family an unwise investment indeed.

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Nominated by UN as the best Poem of 2006, written by an African Kid

When I born, I black
When I grow up, I black
When I go in Sun, I black
When I scared, I black
When I sick, I black
And when I die, I still black

And you white fellow:

When you born, you pink
When you grow up, you white
When you go in sun, you red
When you cold, you blue
When you scared, you yellow
When you sick, you green
And when you die, you grey

And you calling me colored?


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A good example to share with you!

An 80 year old man was sitting on the sofa in his house along with his 45 years old highly educated son. Suddenly a crow perched on their window.The Father asked his Son, 'What is this?' The Son replied 'It is a crow'.After a few minutes, the Father asked his Son the 2nd time, 'What is this?'The Son said 'Father, I have just now told you 'It's a crow'. After a little while, the old Father again asked his Son the 3rd time,What is this?'At this time some ex-pression of irritation was felt in the Son's tone whenhe said to his Father with a rebuff. 'It's a crow, a crow'. A little after, the Father again asked his Son t he 4th time, 'What is this?'This time the Son shouted at his Father, 'Why do you keep asking me the same question again and again, although I have told you so many times 'IT IS A CROW'. Are you not able to understand this?' A little later the Father went to his room and came back with an old tattered diary, which he had maintained since his Son was born. On opening a page, he asked his Son to read that page. When the son read it, the following words were written in the diary :- 'Today my little son aged three was sitting with me on the sofa, when a crow was sitting on the window. My Son asked me 23 times what it was, and I replied to him all 23 times that it was a Crow. I hugged him lovingly each time h e asked me the same question again and again for 23 times. I did not at all feel irritated I rather felt affection for my innocent child'. While the little child asked him 23 times 'What is this', the Father had felt no irritation in replying to the same question all 23 times and when today the Father asked his Son the same question just 4 times, the Son felt irritated and annoyed. So......... If your parents attain old age, do not repulse them or look at them as a burden, but speak to them a gracious word, be cool, obedient, humble and kind to them. Be considerate to your parents from today say this aloud, 'I want to see my parents happy forever. They have cared for me ever since I was a little child. They have always showered their selfless love on me. They crossed all mountains and valleys without seeing the storm and heat to make me a person presentable in the society today'. Say a prayer to God, 'I will serve my old parents in the BEST way. I will say all good and kind words to my dear parents, no matter how they behave.

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*Lessons on Life*

There was a man who had four sons He wanted his sons to learn not to judge
things too quickly. So he sent them each on a quest, in turn, to go and look
at a pear tree that was a great distance away.

The first son went in the winter, the second in the spring, the third in
summer, and the youngest son in the fall.

When they had all gone and come back, he called them together to describe
what they had seen.

The first son said, 'The tree was ugly, bent, and twisted'.
The second son said, 'No, it was covered with green buds and full of
promise'.

The third son disagreed; he said, 'It was laden with blossoms that smelled
so sweet and looked so beautiful, it was the most graceful thing I've ever
seen'.

The last son disagreed with all of them; he said, 'It was ripe and drooping
with fruit, full of life and fulfillment'.

The man then explained to his sons that they were all right, because they
had each seen but only one season in the tree's life.

He told them that you cannot judge a tree, or a person, by only one season,
and that the essence of who they are and the pleasure, joy, and love that
come from that life can only be measured at the end, when all the
seasons are up.

If you give up when it's winter, you will miss the promise of your spring,
the beauty of your summer, fulfillment of your fall.

*Moral lessons:*

Don't let the pain of one season destroy the joy of all the rest.

Don't judge life by one difficult season.
Persevere through the difficult patches and better times are sure to come
some time or later.

It is interpreted as a wheel of life in different perspective.

*The following pictures are of the same place but taken in different seasons...*

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မွတ္သားေလာက္ပါတယ္

ဒီေန႔ ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို႔မွာ အိမ္ႀကီးႀကီးေတြ ရွိၾကတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ မိသားစု၀င္နည္းနည္းနဲ႔။
အဆင္ေျပမႈေတြ ပိုမ်ားလာတယ္၊ ဒါေပမယ့္ အခ်ိန္ေတြ နည္းကုန္ၾကတယ္။
ကၽြန္ေတာ္တုိ႔မွာ ဘြဲ႕လက္မွတ္ေတြမ်ားမ်ား ပိုင္ဆိုင္လာတယ္၊ ဒါေပမယ့္ ေယဘုယ်အသိေတြ နည္းလာတယ္။


ဗဟုသုတေတြ မ်ားလာတယ္၊ ဒါေပမယ့္ ေ၀ဖန္ပိုင္းျခားမႈေတြ နည္းလာတယ္။
ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို႔မွာ တတ္ကၽြမ္းသူေတြ မ်ားမ်ားရွိတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ ျပႆနာေတြ ပိုမ်ားလာတယ္။
ေဆးေတြ မ်ားမ်ားစားစား ရွိတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ က်န္းမာေရးေကာင္းတဲ့သူေတြ နည္းလာတယ္။


ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို႔ အမႈမဲ႔အမွတ္မဲ႔ သံုးျဖဳန္းေနၾကတယ္။
ရယ္တာေတာ့ အေတာ္နည္းသြားၿပီ။
ကားေမာင္းတာ အေတာ္ျမန္လာၾကတယ္။
ေဒါသျဖစ္ဖို႔ အေတာ္ေလးျမန္လာၿပီ။
အိပ္ယာ၀င္တာ ေနာက္က်လြန္းတယ္။
စာဖတ္တာ အေတာ္ေလးနည္းတယ္။
႐ုပ္ျမင္သံၾကားေတာ့ အေတာ္ၾကည့္ၾကသား။ ဘုရားရွိခိုးတာ အေတာ္နည္းလာၿပီ။


ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို႔ရဲ႕ ပိုင္ဆိုင္မႈေတြကို တိုးပြားဖို႔လုပ္ခဲ့ၾကတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ ကၽြန္ေတာ္တုိ႔ရဲ႕ တန္ဖိုးေတြေတာ့
ေလ်ာ့လာၾကတယ္။
ကၽြန္ေတာ္တုိ႔ စကားကို ရႊန္းရႊန္းေ၀ေအာင္ ေျပာၾကတယ္။ ေမတၱာေတြနည္းလာၿပီ။ လိမ္တာညာတာေတာ့
မၾကာခဏပဲ။


ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို႔ ေနထိုင္ဖို႔အတြက္ သင္ယူခဲ့ၾကတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ ဘ၀အတြက္မဟုတ္ဘူး။
ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို႔ သကၠရာဇ္မွာ ဘ၀ကို ျမႇဳပ္ႏံွေနၾကတယ္။ ဘ၀အတြက္ သကၠရာဇ္ေတြကို အသံုးမခ်ႏိုင္ဘူး။
ကၽြန္ေတာ္တုိ႔မွာ ႀကီးမားတဲ့အေဆာက္အဦးေတြ ရွိတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ စိတ္ရွည္သည္းခံႏိုင္မႈဟာ အေတာ္ေသးေကြးလာတယ္။
က်ယ္ျပန္႔တဲ့ လမ္းမႀကီးေတြ ရွိတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ အျမင္ေတြ ႐ႈေထာင့္ေတြ ေသးသိမ္လာတယ္။
ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို႔ မ်ားမ်ားသံုးလာတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ နည္းနည္းပဲ ရတယ္။
ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို႔ မ်ားမ်ားစားစား ၀ယ္လာတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ ေက်နပ္မႈကေတာ့ အေတာ္နည္းတယ္။


ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို႔ လဆီကို သြားဖို႔၊ ျပန္ဖို႔ နည္းလမ္းေတြရွိတယ္။
ဒါေပမယ့္ လမ္းကူးၿပီး အိမ္နီးနားခ်င္းဆီသြားဖို႔ အေတာ္ခက္ေနတယ္။
ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို႔ အျပင္အာကာသကို ႀကီးစိုးႏိုင္တယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ အတြင္းအဇၩတၱကို မပိုင္ႏုိင္ဘူး။
ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို႔ အက္တမ္ကို ခြဲျခမ္းႏိုင္ခဲ့တယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို႔ရဲ႕ အာဂါတ တရားကို မဟုတ္ဘူး။


ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို႔ မ်ားမ်ားေရးတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ ေလ့လာမႈေတြနည္းလာတယ္။ စီမံကိန္းေတြမ်ားတယ္။ ၿပီးေျမာက္တာ
နည္းတယ္။
ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို႔ ခပ္သုတ္သုတ္လုပ္ဖုိ႔ သင္ယူၾကတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ ေစာင့္စားတတ္ဖုိ႔ မပါဘူး။
ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို႔ ျမင့္မားတဲ့၀င္ေငြေတြ ရွိလာတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ ေသးသိမ္တဲ့ စိတ္ဓါတ္ေတြနဲ႔။


ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို႔ သတင္းအခ်က္အလက္မ်ားသိမ္းဖို႔ ေကာ္ပီမ်ားမ်ားပြားဖို႔ ကြန္ျပဴတာေတြထြင္ခဲ့ၾကတယ္။
ဒါေပမယ့္ အဆက္အသြယ္ေတာ့ နည္းလာၾကတယ္။
ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို႔ အရည္အတြက္မ်ားမ်ား ထုတ္ႏိုင္ၾကတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ အရည္အေသြး နည္းနည္းနဲ႔။
အသင့္စားအစားအစာေတြ ေခတ္စားေနတယ္။ အစာေခ်ဖ်က္ႏိုင္မႈက အေတာ္ေႏွးလာတယ္။


လူ ခပ္ျမင့္ျမင့္ေတြ ျဖစ္ေပမယ့္ စ႐ိုက္ေတြက ခပ္သိမ္သိမ္ပဲ။
အားလပ္ခ်ိန္ ပိုလာေပမယ့္ ေပ်ာ္ရြင္မႈေတြ နည္းလာတယ္။
အစားအစာအမ်ိဳးအစားမ်ားလာေပမယ့္ အဟာရေတြနည္းလာတယ္။
ႏွစ္ေယာက္စာ ၀င္ေငြေတြျဖစ္လာေပမယ့္ လင္မယားကြာရွင္းမႈေတြမ်ားလာတယ္။


လွပတဲ့ အိမ္ယာေတြမွာ က်ိဳးပ်က္ေနတဲ့ အိမ္ေထာင္ေတြနဲ႔။
ဒါေၾကာင့္ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ တင္ျပခ်င္တာက ဒီေန႔ကစၿပီး ထူးျခားတဲ့အေျခအေနအတြက္ဆိုၿပီး ဘာပစၥည္းကိုမွ
မသိမ္းပါနဲ႔။ ဘာျဖစ္လို႔လဲဆိုေတာ့ ေန႔တိုင္းဟာ ထူးျခားတဲ့ ေန႔ထူးေန႔ျမတ္ေတြပါပဲ။


အသိတရားအတြက္ ရွာေဖြပါ။ စာမ်ားမ်ားဖတ္ပါ။
သင့္အိမ္ေရွ႕ ၀ရံတာမွာထိုင္ၿပီး သင့္လုိအပ္ခ်က္ေတြကို အာ႐ံုမထားဘဲ ျမင္ရတဲ့ ျမင္ကြင္းကို ခံစားၾကည့္ပါ။
သင့္မိသားစုနဲ႔ သူငယ္ခ်င္းေတြ အတြက္ အခ်ိန္မ်ားမ်ား သံုးပါ။
သင္ႀကိဳက္တဲ့ အစားအစာကို စားပါ။ သင္ ႏွစ္သက္တဲ့ေနရာေတြကို သြားပါ။


ဘ၀ဆိုတာ ေပ်ာ္ရႊင္မႈေတြနဲ႔ စီကံုးထားတဲ့ ကဗ်ာတစ္ပုဒ္ပါ။ အသက္ရွင္႐ံု သက္သက္မဟုတ္ပါဘူး။
သင္သိမ္းဆည္းထားတဲ့ တန္ဖိုးရွိတဲ့ပစၥည္းေတြ၊ ေရေမႊးေတြကို အခုပဲသံုးလိုက္ပါ။
ေနာက္ၿပီး သင္လိုမယ္ထင္တဲ့အခ်ိန္တိုင္းမွာ သံုးပါ။
သင္ရဲ႕ အဘိဓာန္ထဲက `တစ္ေန႔ေန႔´ တို႔၊ `တစ္ေန႔ေရာက္ရင္´ ဆိုတာေတြကို ဖယ္ရွားလိုက္ပါ။


ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို႔ရဲ႕ မိသားစုေတြနဲ႔ သူငယ္ခ်င္းေတြကို ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို႔ ဘယ္ေလာက္ခ်စ္ေၾကာင္း ေျပာၾကရေအာင္။
သင့္ဘ၀ကို ေပ်ာ္ရြင္ေစမယ့္၊ ဘ၀အေမာေျပေစမယ့္ အရာေတြအားလံုးကို ေနာက္မက်ပါေစနဲ႔။
ေန႔တိုင္း၊ အခ်ိန္တိုင္း၊ မိနစ္တိုင္းဟာ ထူးျခားေနပါတယ္။

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မိတ္ေဆြတစ္ဦးနဲ႔ စကားေျပာျဖစ္ေတာ့ သူ႔မွာ အလုပ္ႏွစ္ခုရွိေပမယ့္
ဝင္ေငြနည္းတဲ့အေၾကာင္း ဒါေပမယ့္ သူေပ်ာ္ရႊင္တဲ့အေၾကာင္း ကြ်န္ေတာ့္ကို
ေျပာျပတယ္။ နည္းပါးတဲ့ သူ႔ဝင္ေငြကို ေခြ်တာသံုးမွ မိဘ၊ ေယာကၡမ၊ မိန္းမနဲ႔
ကေလးတို႔ရဲ႕အသံုးစရိတ္အျပင္ မိသားစုစားဝတ္ေနေရး ဖူလံုမွာျဖစ္တယ္။
ဒါနဲ႔မ်ား သူဘာေၾကာင့္ ေပ်ာ္ရႊင္ေနသလဲဆိုတာကို ကြ်န္ေတာ္စဥ္းစားလို႔
မရခဲ့ဘူး။

လြန္ခဲ့တဲ့ ႏွစ္အနည္းငယ္က အိႏၵိယမွာ မ်က္ျမင္ကိုယ္ေတြ႔
ၾကံဳခဲ့တဲ့အျဖစ္ေၾကာင့္လို႔ သူကရွင္းျပပါတယ္။ အဲဒီတုန္းက
ကိစၥတစ္ခုေၾကာင့္ သူဟာ အၾကီးအက်ယ္ နလန္မထူႏိုင္ေအာင္ စိတ္ပ်က္ခဲ့လို႔
အိႏၵိယကို စိတ္ေျပလက္ေပ်ာက္ ခရီးထြက္ခဲ့တယ္။ တစ္ေနရာမွာ
အိႏၵိယမိခင္တစ္ဦးဟာ ကေလးငယ္တစ္ေယာက္ရဲ႕ ညာလက္ကို ဓားနဲ႔လွီးျဖတ္ေနတာ
ေတြ႔လိုက္တယ္။ အကူအညီမဲ့ မိခင္ရဲ႕မ်က္လံုးနဲ႔ ကေလးငယ္ရဲ႕
နာက်င္ေအာ္ညည္းသံကို ယေန႔ထက္တိုင္ သူၾကားေယာင္ဆဲ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း
ကြ်န္ေတာ့္ကို ေျပာျပတယ္။

သားလက္ကို ဘာေၾကာင့္ အေမျဖတ္ရသလဲလို႔ ကြ်န္ေတာ္ေမးမိတယ္။ ကေလးငယ္
အရမ္းဆိုးလို႔လား? လက္မွာ အနာေရာဂါတစ္ခုခု ကူးစက္ေနလို႔လား? တစ္ခုမွ
မဟုတ္ပါဘူး... ေတာင္းရမ္းစားေသာက္ ႏိုင္ေအာင္လို႔ လို႔ မိတ္ေဆြက
ေျဖပါတယ္။ မိခင္တစ္ဦးက သားကို တမင္တကာ ဒဏ္ရာ အနာတရျဖစ္ေအာင္ လုပ္ရတာဟာ
လမ္းေပၚမွာ ေတာင္းရမ္းစားေသာက္ႏိုင္ေအာင္ ျဖစ္တယ္။

အဲဒီအျဖစ္အပ်က္ကို ၾကည့္ျပီး စားလက္စ ေပါင္မုန္႔ကို လြတ္ခ်မိတဲ့အထိ
သူအ့ံၾသတုန္လႈပ္ သြားခဲ့မိတယ္။ တဆက္တည္းမွာပဲ လြတ္က်သြားတဲ့
ေပါင္မုန္႔ကို ဝိုင္းလုဖို႔ ကေလးတစ္သိုက္ သူ႔အနား
ခ်က္ခ်င္းေရာက္လာခဲ့တယ္။ သဲေတြေပေနတဲ့ ေပါင္မုန္႔ကို ဝိုင္းလုၾကတာဟာ
ငတ္မြတ္ဒဏ္ေၾကာင့္ ျဖစ္ေပၚလာတဲ့ တုန္႔ျပန္မႈဆိုတာ သူနားလည္လိုက္တယ္။

ဒီျမင္ကြင္းက သူ႔ကိုေခ်ာက္ခ်ားေစခဲ့ျပန္တယ္။ လမ္းညႊန္ကို အနီးအနား
ေပါင္မုန္႔ဆိုင္တစ္ဆိုင္ကို ေမာင္းပို႔ခိုင္းျပီး ဆိုင္ထဲရွိသမွ်
ေပါင္မုန္႔အားလံုးကုိ သူဝယ္ယူလိုက္တယ္။ ေပါင္မုန္႔အားလံုးရဲ႕ တန္ဖိုးက
၁ဝဝက်ပ္ေတာင္(ထိုင္ဝမ္ေငြ) မျပည့္ခဲ့ေပမယ့္ ေပါင္မုန္႔အထုပ္ ၄ဝဝ ရခဲ့တယ္။
(တစ္ထုတ္ကို ၂၅ဆင့္ မက်ခဲ့ဘူး) ေနာက္ျပီး ေငြတစ္ရာနဲ႔ ေန႔စဥ္
အသံုးအေဆာင္တစ္ခ်ဳိ႔ ဝယ္လိုက္တယ္။

ေပါင္မုန္႔၊ အသံုးအေဆာင္ အျပည့္တင္ထားတဲ့ ကားနဲ႔ လမ္းေပၚမွာေတြ႔တဲ့
မသန္မစြမ္း ကေလးငယ္ေတြကို သူေဝမွ်ေပးလိုက္တယ္။ ကေလးေတြက ဝမ္းသာအားရ
သူ႔ကို အေလးျပန္ျပဳခဲ့တယ္။ ၂၅ဆင့္ေတာင္ တန္ဖိုးမရွိတဲ့
ေပါင္မုန္႔တစ္ခ်ပ္အတြက္ လူတစ္ခ်ဳိ႕က ဘာျဖစ္လို႔ ဒီေလာက္ေပ်ာ္ရႊင္ရတယ္
ဆိုတဲ့ ခံစားခ်က္ကို သူပထမဆံုး ခံစားလိုက္မိတယ္။

"ငါဟာ ကံေကာင္းတဲ့လူ၊ ငါ့ခႏၶာကိုယ္က မခြ်တ္မယြင္း ျပည့္စံုေနတယ္။
အလုပ္ရွိတယ္။ မိသားစုရွိတယ္။ စားစရာေတြကို ၾကိဳက္တယ္၊ မၾကိဳက္ဘူးလို႔
ဂ်ီးမ်ားဖို႔ အခြင့္အေရးရွိတယ္။ ဝတ္ဖို႔ အဝတ္အစားရွိတယ္။ ဒီကလူေတြ
မရွိတာေတြကို ပိုင္ဆိုင္ဖို႔ ငါ့မွာ အခြင့္အေရး ရွိခဲ့တယ္" လို႔
သူေရရြတ္ခဲ့မိတယ္။

မိတ္ေဆြရဲ႕ အျဖစ္အပ်က္ကို နားေထာင္ျပီး ကြ်န္ေတာ္ခံစားၾကည့္တယ္။
ေတြးၾကည့္တယ္။ "ငါ့ဘဝ တကယ္ပဲဆိုးသလား? ဆိုးရင္လဲ ဆိုးခဲ့ႏိုင္တယ္။
ဒါေပမယ့္ ဒီပံုျပင္ကိုနားေထာင္ျပီး ငါ့ဘဝ ဒီေလာက္မဆိုးေတာ့ဘူး။
ခင္ဗ်ားေရာ?

ဒါမွမဟုတ္ ငါ့ဘဝ ကံဆိုးလိုက္တာလို႔ ေနာင္တစ္ခ်ိန္ခ်ိန္မွာ
ခင္ဗ်ားထင္ခဲ့တဲ့တစ္ေန႔ လမ္းေပၚမွာ ေတာင္းရမ္းစားဖို႔ လက္တစ္ဖက္
ဆံုး႐ႈံးရတဲ့ ကေလးငယ္ကို ေတြးျမင္ၾကည့္လိုက္ပါ။

"ေက်နပ္တယ္၊ ျပည့္စံုတယ္" ဆိုတာ ကိုယ္လိုခ်င္တာကို ရသြားလို႔ မဟုတ္ဘူး။
ရွိတာနဲ႔ ေရာင့္ရဲတင့္တိမ္ ေနတာျဖစ္တယ္။

မူရင္း.... ထိုင္ဝမ္ စာေရးဆရာ Hong Wen Yong (候文詠) ၏ "ဘဝ" အား ဘာသာျပန္ခံစားသည္။



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Insight into Decision Making

A group of children were playing near two railway tracks, one still in use while the other disused. Only one child played on the disused track, the  rest on the operational track.

The train is coming, and you are just beside the track interchange. You can make the train change its course to the disused track and save most of the kids. However, that would also mean the lone child playing by the disused track would be sacrificed. Or would you rather let the train go its way?    

Let's take a pause to think what kind of decision we could make....




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Most people might choose to divert the course of the train, and sacrifice only one child. You might think the same way, I guess. Exactly, to save most of the children at the expense of only one child was rational decision most people would make, morally and emotionally. But, have you ever thought that the child choosing to play on the disused track had in fact made the right decision to play at a safe place?

Nevertheless, he had to be sacrificed because of his ignorant friends who chose to play where the danger was.. This kind of dilemma happens around us everyday. In the office, community, in politics and especially in a democratic society, the minority is often sacrificed for the interest of the majority, no matter how foolish or ignorant the majority are, and how farsighted and knowledgeable the minority are. The child who chose not to play with the rest on the operational track was sidelined. And in the case he was sacrificed, no one would shed a tear for him..

The great critic Leo Velski Julian who told the story said he would not try to change the course of the train because he believed that the kids playing on the operational track should have known very well that track was still in use, and that they should have run away if they heard the train's sirens. If the train was diverted, that lone child would definitely die because he never thought the train could come over to that track! Moreover, that track was not in use probably because it was not safe. If the train was diverted to the track, we could put the lives of all passengers on board at stake! And in your attempt to save a few kids by sacrificing one child, you might end up sacrificing hundreds of people to save these few kids.

While we are all aware that life is full of tough decisions that need to be made, we may not realize that hasty decisions may not always be the right one.

 Remember that what's right isn't always popular... and what's popular isn't always right.  

Everybody makes mistakes; that's why they put erasers on pencils.


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လူ႔ဘ၀၏ ၆ပုံ

တစ္ခါက နာမည္ၾကီး တကၠသိုလ္မွ ဆရာတစ္ဦးသည္ ေခ်ာင္က်ေသာ ရြာတစ္ရြာသို႔ သြားေရာက္ လည္ပတ္ခဲ့သည္။ ရြာသို႔ေရာက္ေသာ္ ေလွတစီးငွားျပီး ျမစ္တစ္ေလွ်ာက္ လည္ပတ္ခဲ့သည္။ ေလွစတင္ထြက္ေသာအခါ ဆရာက ေလွသမားအား......
“ ခင္ဗ်ား သခ်ာၤေဗဒတတ္သလား”
“ ကြ်န္ေတာ္ မတတ္ပါဘူး”
“ရူပေဗဒ တတ္သလား”
“ဒါလဲ မတတ္ပါဘူး”
“ဒါဆိုရင္ ခင္ဗ်ား ကြန္ျပဴတာသံုးတတ္သလား”
“စိတ္မေကာင္းပါဘူး...ဒါလဲ ကြ်န္ေတာ္မတတ္ပါဘူး”
ဆရာမွာ ေခါင္းခါျပီး “သခ်ာၤမတတ္ရင္ လူ႔ဘ၀ရဲ႔ ၆ပံု၂ပံုကို ခင္ဗ်ားဆံုးရွံဳးမယ္”
“ရူပေဗဒ မတတ္ရင္ လူ႔ဘ၀ရဲ႔ ၆ပံု၁ပံုကို ဆံုးရွဳံးမယ္”
“ကြန္ျပဴတာ မတတ္ရင္ လူ႔ဘ၀ရဲ႔ ၆ပံု၁ပံုကို ဆံုး႐ႈံးမယ္..ခင္ဗ်ားရဲ႔ ဘ၀ ၆ပံု၄ပံုဟာ ဆံုး႐ႈံးသြားျပီပဲ”

ထိုခဏအတြင္း ရာသီဥတု ေျပာင္းျပီး ေကာင္းကင္တြင္ တိမ္ညိဳမ်ား တက္လာသည္။ မၾကာမီ မိုးသက္ေလျပင္း က်ေရာက္ေတာ့မည္။ ထိုအခါ ေလွသမားက ဆရာအား “ ခင္ဗ်ား ေရကူးတတ္သလား” ဟုေမးလိုက္သည္။ ဆရာက ခဏမွ် ဆံြအျပီး “ကြ်န္ေတာ္ မကူးတတ္ဘူး။ တစ္ခါမွ မသင္ဖူးဘူး” ဟုျပန္ေျဖေလသည္။
ေလွသမားမွာ ေခါင္းကိုသြင္သြင္ ရမ္းျပီး..“ ဒါဆိုရင္ ခင္ဗ်ားရဲ႔ဘ၀ ၆ပံုစလံုးဟာ ဆံုး႐ႈံးရေတာ့မယ္” ဟု ျပန္ေျဖခဲ့သည္။

လူတေယာက္ဟာ ကိုယ့္ရဲ႔ အဆင့္အတန္း ကိုယ့္ရဲ႔ စံခ်ိန္နဲ႔ အျခားလူတစ္ေယာက္ကို သြားတိုင္းတာလို႔ မရပါဘူး။ ပံုျပင္ထဲက ဆရာဟာ ပညာရွင္တစ္ဦးပါ။ သူ႔ဘ၀မွာသခ်ာၤ၊ ရူပ၊ ကြန္ျပဴတာ ပညာေတြသာ အေရးၾကီးတယ္လို႔ ထင္ေနသူပါ။ ဒီပညာေတြသာ မတတ္ရင္ လူ႔ဘ၀ဟာ အဓိပၸါယ္မဲ့ျပီလို႔ ထင္ေနသူပါ။ ဒါဟာ ပညာရွင္ေတြရဲ႔ အယူအဆပါ။ ေလွသမားအတြက္ကေတာ့ သူ႔အတြက္ ဒီပညာ မတတ္လဲ ဘာမွမျဖစ္ဘူး။ အေရးၾကီးတာက သူ႔အတြက္ “ရွင္သန္” ဖို႔ အားအင္ေတြ ရွိေနဖို႔ပဲ။ ဒါေပမဲ့ အေရးၾကံဳလာတဲ့ အခ်ိန္မွာ ဆရာတတ္ထားတဲ့ ပညာဟာ ဘာမွ အသံုးမ၀င္ခဲ့ဘူး။ ေလွေမွာက္သြားရင္ ေရကူးတတ္တဲ့ လူသာ အသက္ရွင္ခြင့္ရမွာပါ။

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