Rebirth

A friend of mine was sharing his experiences, he concluded that many things in life, you need to forego in order to reborn (to give a new meaning to it)!

With that in mind, I look at one of my unfinished work hanging at a corner. I took it down and rest it on my table and begun to splash paints onto the surface of the work! I was puzzled for a while, but to my amazement, the more I work on it, the better it looks, and finally a brand new lotus work was born.

I never expect a new appearance of lotus was created because I destroyed an older one. It might be true sometimes in life we need to leave things behind in order to have a new start.

HELP?

A teacher friend of mine is seriously ill recently and asked me to pace his graduating students to complete their work.

As time to final examinations is near, I offered additional time to assist pupils during my free time and received no monetary rewards in return. The first few sessions went on well. Pupils were heading for the right directions and I am pleased with what pupils have achieved. As I was happy with what I see, demands increased. I tried hard to cope with these requests, however, I was annoyed with conditions came along with them. Timing, materials, level of assistance ……. Everything changes, as when I turned down unreasonable demands, things get ugly!

Personally, I feel that the younger generations have been given much today and yet many of them do not really treasure them. As our communities give and give and give, they just take and take and take without thinking about gratitude. Very often when we help, we do not need others to appreciate what we did, but at least on the receiving end, people should learn to make things easier for the people who care about them. By demanding someone to give up their actual job just to cater to some selfish matters, have our young people be able to do them themselves? Have them spare a thought for others? I wonder …………