Don't Burn The Bridges!!!
Had not updated my blog for quite sometime. No excuses, just laziness!!! Hahaha.
Let me take sometime to reflect on the recent festive season. To me it was just another holiday, but it does reveals something that we all must practice.
We as human being have different nature; different characters and at times it will cause unnecessary friction between one another. No one is perfect, no one can claim that he or she is always in the right and all the others are in the wrong. Chinese New Year is a time that we take the opportunity to visit our relatives and to connect with one another.
This is something that we oriental do every year. This is something that I would like to encourage all my young readers to do. Irregardless of whether you like or dislike your relatives, it is an opportunity for us to build bridges with one another. Too often I had seen how when we were young, we always think that there is no need for bridges to be built with our relatives but as we grow older you will find the need of having the support of your closed one. No, I am not advocating that we are trying to make use of one another, but as the saying goes, no man is an island, there is no way that we will ever be able to survive by our own, especially when you grow old. Many of my young readers may not agree to this, but unfortunately this is life and is a reality that will come to everyone of us.
It is so sad to read of how a mother support her son to be a doctor through her “dirty” work as a cleaner, as claimed by her son, and finally being thrown out of the house and had to survive alone. One day, this young man will definitely have his retribution for what he did. And then what happen to this old lady, if only she had other relatives to be with her to give her support, life would be much easier than having to have a packet of Maggie noodles for her meal. It is so sad to see how human can degrade themselves to do such a thing!!!
Whether you like it or not, your friends will not be with you always!!! Friends come and go, and when they have their own family, sooner or later, you will be drifted apart. But your relatives and closed one will always be there, as the Chinese saying goes, blood is thicker than water!!! So do learn to be tolerant of your relatives and DO NOT BURN SUCH BRIDGES DOWN!!!
Hopefully this will spur my young reader to start pondering and prepare themselves to mend whatever broken bridges next year.
So a HAPPY CHINESE NEW TEAR TO ALL MY READERS!!!!
Let me take sometime to reflect on the recent festive season. To me it was just another holiday, but it does reveals something that we all must practice.
We as human being have different nature; different characters and at times it will cause unnecessary friction between one another. No one is perfect, no one can claim that he or she is always in the right and all the others are in the wrong. Chinese New Year is a time that we take the opportunity to visit our relatives and to connect with one another.
This is something that we oriental do every year. This is something that I would like to encourage all my young readers to do. Irregardless of whether you like or dislike your relatives, it is an opportunity for us to build bridges with one another. Too often I had seen how when we were young, we always think that there is no need for bridges to be built with our relatives but as we grow older you will find the need of having the support of your closed one. No, I am not advocating that we are trying to make use of one another, but as the saying goes, no man is an island, there is no way that we will ever be able to survive by our own, especially when you grow old. Many of my young readers may not agree to this, but unfortunately this is life and is a reality that will come to everyone of us.
It is so sad to read of how a mother support her son to be a doctor through her “dirty” work as a cleaner, as claimed by her son, and finally being thrown out of the house and had to survive alone. One day, this young man will definitely have his retribution for what he did. And then what happen to this old lady, if only she had other relatives to be with her to give her support, life would be much easier than having to have a packet of Maggie noodles for her meal. It is so sad to see how human can degrade themselves to do such a thing!!!
Whether you like it or not, your friends will not be with you always!!! Friends come and go, and when they have their own family, sooner or later, you will be drifted apart. But your relatives and closed one will always be there, as the Chinese saying goes, blood is thicker than water!!! So do learn to be tolerant of your relatives and DO NOT BURN SUCH BRIDGES DOWN!!!
Hopefully this will spur my young reader to start pondering and prepare themselves to mend whatever broken bridges next year.
So a HAPPY CHINESE NEW TEAR TO ALL MY READERS!!!!
posted by Sebastian Chu at 2:21 PM
