I found this (accidentally) in a facebook note of someone whom I never meet, his name is Ven Sofian Huang
The most memorable sentence for me personally was the last sentence,
Enjoy Ur Life, LIFE is so SHORT … my dear friend.
with our current being, and if we spend time for reflection, surely we will find enough blessings that has been granted to ourself, so enjoy them and use them wisely..and the not less important is how we could enjoy and living a passionate life all the time ..
The following is facebook note from Ven Huang Sofian that I quoted :
(He is an Indonesian just like me so I tried to translate his note into english so it can be understood by much bigger readers that are english-aware)
An afterthought of SUCCESS
Success is simple,
Success has nothing to do with getting rich,
Success is not as complex nor treasured as Kiyosaki or Tung Desem Waringin says,
Success is no need to be pursued,
Success is YOU!
Because the greatest success is in your our self …
- How did we’re created out of the race millions of sperm to fertilize an ovum, it is our first success!
- be born without disabilities, that is your second success..
- When you go to school and had the undergraduate studies, when every minute there are 10 students drop out because they were not able to pay fees, thats your third success…
- When you can work at a company in the “segitiga emas” area in Jakarta, while 46 million people have become unemployed, thats your fourth success…
- When you are still able to eat three times a day, at the same time there are 3 million people die of hunger each month, thats your fifth success…
Success happens every day, but sometimes we don’t realize them. ..
I was very touched when watching the movie Click! starring Adam Sandler, said “Family comes first”, as his last words to his son before he died …
This so-busy Adam Sandler in the pursuit of success,
He did not even take the time to his childs & wife, even did not attend his father’s funeral day
Himself, like his family was a mess, his beautiful wife divorced him, his son didn’t recognize him
Success is always refracted by bestselling author so their books could be a best seller again and again using a successful reply to “this complicated-and-difficult-to-get : SUCCESS”
Success is not only about wealth, luxury homes, sport cars, Rolex, early retirement, besome a businessman, have a pool / helicopter, have beautiful wife like Donald Trump, own luxury resorts in the Caribbean …
True success is to live with gratitude for all grace of God, true success is to enjoy & be grateful for every second of your life,
when you are happy, you are completely happy, whereas when you are sad, you are sad completely,
after that you have to be prepared again to face new episodes again.
True success is living right in the way of God, a good deeds living, do not cheat, give our best in works & always be a humble one,
Being a successful one in the pure form could be not thinking about wealthiness, neither try so hard to stay healthy,
true success is to accept fully our surplus, current state, all with gratitude.
Have we ever noticed?
We don’t buy an item with money, money is a globally trusted way to exchange, we actually buy a house with our time.
Yes, we may have to work day and night to pay mortgages for 15 years or a 3 years loans to buy a car / motorcycle.
Those things all we got actualy comes from the swap of our time.
We sell our time from morning to night to the highest bidder to get money so we could buy food, phone etc. …
Our greatest asset is not your home / your car, but our own self, that’s why smart people can be paid million of times folding of a fool….
The more valuable you are, the more expensive people will buy your time …
That’s why the price of Kiyosaki’s 2-hour talks in the seminar cost about 200 million IDR
or 2-hour seminars cost of Mr. Tung Desem Waringin could reach 100 million IDR !
That’s why Nike pays Tiger Woods bold & Michael Jordan for 200 million USD, just to wear Nike products.
A branded product to be expensive / valuable not because of
its brand, but because the product they will be used by anyone ….
That’s why the former basketball used Michael Jordan ,would sold 80 million USD,
whereas if we own a basketball with the same brand, when we sell it, its costs will be lower…
Sometimes life is funny, sound like we’re chasing a mirage, when viewed from afar, maybe we see the water / gold in the distance,
but when we go after all the strength we have and finally we get it, we realized that it is only a reflection of sunlight or “corn flakes”
and we could just said “ahh, SO this is it turns out…..”
It is funny after you read this but you are still in the race after the mirage, rather than spending your time in invaluable time together with your parents that has loved you without asking your reply, or hug your loved ones / wife warmly, say “I love you” to your loved ones: parents, wives, children, best friends…
Do this while you still have time, you never know when you will die, maybe tomorrow, maybe later tonight.
LIFE is so SHORT.
Spend more time doing your hobby, whether it’s playing ball, fishing, watching movies, drinking coffee, eat your favorite food, gardening, playing
chess, or a karaoke…
Enjoy Ur Life, LIFE is so SHORT … my dear friend.
