“If it is not because of them, I will not be like the way I am today…” -Anonymous
Tell me now guys, who’s the most influential person in your life that develop you as a complete individual, that you are up until this moment capable of having your own ground of character, of having a bright mind, of having proficient skills that you required to be successful? You may answer it was your parents, your brothers and sisters, your teachers, your friends, your colleagues, your spouse, whoever… other than ourselves. We are highly dependent to other people, we receive information, knowledge, insights, and wisdom from others that in the end transforms our brain to be a powerful tool. We are products of others, not products of ourselves…
And because of those people, we can be like the way we are now, yet we are most of the time standing on the receiving end of that process, rather than on the giving end. We hardly respect those who actually trying to make us a better person (I even mocked my teachers behind their back, which I realized now and then it was wrong, unacceptably wrong, and I repent myself for that), we are less appreciative to those who share their mind (even someday in the future, we will use it as our credential). Subconsciously speaking, we are creatures with sharing capability by nature, we just expressed it in different ways, one love to write, other love to talk, some prefer to draw, we also tell stories, write statuses (Facebook! Remember the blue button underneath the right-hand side of the status box called “share!”). We can share anything, anytime, anywhere, with the way we love the most.
Our parents, our brothers and sisters, our teachers, our friends, our colleagues, our spouse always wish for us to be successful. But what is success? Apparently it’s not about being rich, it’s not about money at all. They wish for us to be useful for others, to be useful for our family, our society, our country, and our community. That success is all about. Money is only the mean for our ends, it is only a tool and not our goal. We do need money, but it shouldn’t be our driver. Value drives money, not on the other way around.
I remembered one of my teachers say this “…Knowledge is not something that someone invented, someone just accidentally discover it, so knowledge is always meant to be shared, share it no matter how little your contribution, because your mind is a terrible thing to waste by keeping them for your own…”
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