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17 June, 2004
10:55 PM
I had dinner with my secondary school friends, Sheena and Jamie last night. Our dear Birdbrain was supposed to turn up around 7+, but we called her jus before 9 only to find out that she had jus woken up from her wonderful sleep! Haha...but poor her with all her IA and flying around etc...can't wait for it to end by next Friday!!! =) But the night was great, because i learnt alot of things about people, myself, or rather - LIFE.
Life is a choice - happy or sad, rich or poor, simple or complicated...etc etc. There are so many choices, but somehow many of us aren't aware of them. Jus like model 10 yr series answers, we only know of the model lifestyles. Obviously, everyone would want a happy life, but what is our OWN definition of happiness? Lots of us dream about being rich, yet our model lives only allow us to be average earners...so we're fated not to be rich. Another handful of us jus hope to lead a simple life, but sadly, we do not know wat it REALLY TAKES to lead one. In the modern world, there's no such thing as a simple life unless you're rich, sad but true. It is ignorant to think of simplicity the same way the older generations used to think of it because it simply does not apply anymore. Times have really changed...that's why everything is only an illusion to us because we are still seeing things the old model way!
The PROBLEM is that many people aren't aware of the BIGGEST CHOICE they can make in their life - what kind of life do they want to live? Education has only revealed to us a very small yet detailed PIECE of the big picture, and people have thus come to believe that life is jus about that one piece they know. And as a result, their choices have been limited to probably only one - THE MODEL ONE. It jus saddens me that most of my friends frown or even mock at the idea of leading a different kind of life, a life without paychecks, yet one of success, time and financial freedom, happiness, fun activities, trips to all over the world...etc. Its jus too..."unmodel" for them to accept or even think about. But this IS PART OF THE BIG PICTURE TOO! Its jus the prettier one they have not been exposed to. Some even say its "too good to be true". Is it?!
Jus like solving most problems - to find out exactly where the problem lies, we should always look at the big picture first, before zooming in on the details. Most of my friends tend to think that MLM is a "disease", and there are a hundred and one reasons why they wanna stay far away from it, and sometimes, away from me. But what they think they saw isn't the actual picture at all! To me, MLM is jus an OPTION. It is an option that can help me to realise the kind of life that i would want to lead in future. In other words, i CHOSE the kind of future that i want, and therefore i engaged in one of the options that can get me there. But i would like to repeat that MLM is NOT the only option available, and i'm not tryin to "psycho" my friends to join me in this business. I jus really, from the bottom of my heart, hope that they can all at least attempt to uncover more of the picture before deciding wat kind of lives they wanna live, because the model life will only get tougher and tougher each day. As for my MLM...I am simply offering it as ANOTHER OPTION to my friends because its something i believe in, something that i feel has so much more to it than jus the potential to succeed. Take it or not, there's no way i can force it.
I guess it really takes some time to open people's minds...to those who haven't got an idea what i'm saying here, jus take a look at the people, strangers or friends around you and think for yourself. Who do you wanna be in future? Still dunno wat i'm sayin? I highly recommend Robert T. Kiyosaki's Rich Dad Poor Dad. Read it and it'll really OPEN YOUR WORLD. It surely opened mine...
Inspiring Words
"The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident."
- Charles Lamb (1775-1834)
"It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place."
- Abigail Van Buren
"Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds."
- Hugh Elliott
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself."
- Oscar Wilde
"The best thing about pain, it tells you you're not dead yet."
- the movie G.I. Jane
"Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need."
- Kahlil Gibran
"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in
you."
- Dale Carnegie
"Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear."
- William Shakespeare
