Good or bad is very hard to say. I woke up early today, and the plan was to reach work before 8am. After work up, I checked my work mails and started working, and before I know it, it is already 8am, and my wife is still in bed, well, just woke up. And I attend the phone meeting from home. The meeting was suppose to end at 9am, but was extended 30 minutes. At 9am, my wife could not wait for me to get to work anymore and went with the Honda City. I was a little distrusted on the fact that we could not get to work together and almost cursed the meeting chair for letting the meeting drag on and on.

Little that I know, missing the ride to work was a blessing in disguise. My wife called 30 minutes later that the car jerked on the way to work, and the car was running on empty. If she have been given me a ride to work, we would have gone another route to my office, and this other route do not have any gas station on the way, we would be in trouble then. This reminds me of an old story of situational view point. The story is re-produced below. Good or bad is Very hard to say.

Once upon a time, there was a king. The king liked one of his followers very much because he was very wise and always gave very useful advice. Therefore the king took him along wherever he went. One day, the king was bitten by a dog, the finger was injured and the wound was getting worse. He asked the follower if that was a bad sign. The follower said, ‘Good or bad, hard to say’. In the end, the finger of the king was too bad that it had to be cut. The king asked the follower again if that was a bad sign. Again, the follower gave the same answer, ‘Good or bad, hard to say’. The king became very angry and sent the follower to prison.

One day, the king went hunting in the jungle. He got excited when he was on the chase of a deer. Deeper and deeper he went inside the jungle. In the end he found himself lost in the jungle. To make things worse, he got captured by the natives who lived inside the jungle. They wanted to sacrifice him to their god. But when they noticed that the king had one finger short, they released him immediately as he was not a perfect man anymore and not suitable for sacrifice. The king managed to get back to his palace after all. And he finally understood the follower’s wise quote, ‘Good or bad, hard to say’. If he hadn’t lost one finger, he could have been killed by the natives. He ordered to release the follower, and apologized to him. But to the king amazement, the follower was not mad at him at all. Instead, the follower said, ‘It wasn’t a bad thing that you locked me up.’ Why? Because if the king hadn’t locked the follower up, he would have brought the follower along to the jungle. If the natives found that the king was not suitable, they would have used the follower. Again, the quote ‘Good or bad, hard to say’stands.

The moral of the story is that everything that happens in this world, there is no absolute good or bad. Sometimes goodthings turned out to be bad eventually, while bad things become a gain. Whatever good things that happen to you, enjoy it, but don’t hold too tight to it, treat it as a surprise in your life. Whatever bad things that happen to you, don’t feel too sad or despair, in the end, it might not be a totally bad thing after all. If one can understand this, then he or she will find life much easier.

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