My Confession Box

Friday, October 10, 2008

Unlike the other Friday’s in which I used to join my friends for basketball games, I joined my class instead for some fun filled activities. There is this particular activity that I love and dread doing, and that is to play badminton. I love the game but I always have a tendency of hurting my forearm. During some parts of the day, someone did ask me a good question and that is, would I have joined them if my common company of friends were still there playing ball every Friday?
Well I don’t know ... I would like the best of both worlds.

While working on something today, I came across the quote ...

“What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great person is one who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect
sweetness the independence of solitude.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Well, with regards to interpreting the quote and relating it to my life I recall a lesson learnt during year 1, the lesson on the “Edge of Chaos”. To do your duty and not to think about what people think, it definitely serves a great point that lies between greatness and meanness. There are times that there is just a fine line between right and wrong. But you know what? Justice lies within the heart, and because everyone has a yardstick between right and wrong. Follow your heart, as long as you think your right and you do it with a conscience than it is all that matters (This phrase was mentioned 1 year ago, yet all this time I have been so perplexed when all along I had the answer.)

Today’s episode of the Drive Of Life was really inspiring and it made me think about some things. My friend finds this show too slow, but I like thought provoking shows that helps me shape my thinking. In today’s episode it was stated by Joe Ma that there are times in which you can’t have the best of both worlds. When it comes to certain parts of our life we have to prioritize between career, family, love life and friends. It’s a tough decision but at the end of the day let the heart guide you because there are times in which there are simply no answers. This and the above are all questions that have caused me to be very troubled but I guess I have the answer all the while it’s just about taking steps in life to attain enlightenment.

There was this particular part in today’s episode that I love a lot. That is the part in which Ron was racing, he had to make a tough decision between winning by underhand means and to go against his boss by not doing so. In the heat of making a decision, a couple of flashbacks occurred in which his rival shared with him important aspects of life. Initially he did use the underhand mean but later on he gave up that idea and worked to do his best and that is to the extent of losing honourably. But as he was giving it his best, someone decided to set him up and his car crashed. The car was in terrible shape but still he persisted to drive to the finishing line. It’s not about winning sometimes it’s about giving in your best and to live with no regrets. To live life to the fullest like there is no tomorrow.

[ There are people who are concerned about being in a less fortunate position than some others thus limiting what they can do. But you know what? It doesn’t matter whether a not you are tall or shot, neither does it matter if you aren’t that intelligent. It too doesn’t matter if what you do will make a difference in winning a not. What matters is that you give it your 100% and to keep moving forward. That’s the heart of a champion]

Below is a clip from a movie that I find very inspirational

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