FocusPositives

Deeply caring and loving someone can blow everything out of proportion. It creates unnecessarily enormous emotions which can result in serious damages to both parties. Step back, take a deep breath, and clear your mind. It was never so bad after all. What matters most is you both love each other very much.

Reminder to ask myself daily: What doors have God opened for me today? There is always a brighter path, planned by God, awaiting for me to discover. See those paths and walk those paths.

“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.”
~Alexander Grapham Bell

Tonight my elder brother shared a story with me. On his 25th birthday he celebrate with over 30 to 40 friends. They all took turns to wish and cheer him with drinks an so he drank and got drunk . After he arrived home, alone in his apartment, depression and loneliness took over him. Everything spiral downwards. He was emotional and physically miserable. He hated this feeling and thought to himself, “Why did I drink? I don’t like alcohol. What was all the drinking for? Not for myself… but for the enjoyment of others.”

He swore not to drink alcohol again and he would only do things that made himself happy. By this time it was 5am, to brush off these feelings he decide to go for a morning drive. As he drove, he noticed the sign in front of the church had changed. With the sunrise peeking from behind, the sign read, “To Believe, Just Believe”. At that moment epiphany hit him. “To be Happy, Just be Happy”, “To Love, Just Love” This can be applied to life in many ways, it was all that simple.

 “To Believe, Just Believe. If you truly understand something you will not need to try, you will know how to apply it without difficulty in all things. It’s as simple as that.”

~ 哥哥

I guess I don’t get it yet… I guess I will know when I don’t have to try… So simple yet so deep…

As simple as I’d like to be in this complicated life.

~ Image from Google+

想 xiǎng, to think / to believe / to suppose / to wish / to want / to miss
得到 dé dào, to get / to obtain / to receive
先 xiān, early / prior / former / in advance / first
要 yāo, demand / ask / request / coerce / must
付出 fù chū, pay / pay out

想得到,先要付出 if you want to receive, you must give first (pay in advance)

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