i've just read an awesome awesome awe inspiring email. shocking aye? most emails now adays are full of crap, waste of time, or just for mere entertainment. but i was really inspired. wanted to cpy paste it here, but somehow the email doesnt allow itself to be copied. oh well.
so... i'll just type out lil extracts that i was really amazed by.
"..start out by giving one advice to the men : When you've already won her heart, there's no need to win every argument"
"....You've probably been told the big lie, "Learning is a lifelong process."......... The good news is that they're wrong. The bad news is that you dont't need further education because your entire life is over. It is gone. That may come to a shock to some of you. People may tell you that you will live to 70, 80, 90 years old. That is your life expectancy. I love that term: life expectancy. We all understand that term to mean the average life span of a group of ppl. But i'm here to talk about a bigger idea, which is what you expect from your life. .............. I'm here to tell you this. Forget your life expectancy. After all, it's calculated based on an average. And you never, ever want to expect being just average. .................. You don't need to be taught by the best minds in Singapore to prepare you to be average. ............ Don't expect anything. Erase all life expectancies. Just live. Your life is over as of today. At this point of time in time, you have grown as tall as you ever will be, you are physically the fittest you will ever be in your entire life and you are probably looking the best than you will ever look. This is as good as it gets. It's all downhill from here. Or up. No one knows."
"Since your life is over, you are free. Let me tell you the many wonderful things you can do when you're free. The most important thing is this: Do not work. Work is anything that you are compelled to do. ............... If you work, then day by day, bit, by bit, your soul is chipped away, disintegrating until there's nothing left. ........... You will meet people working at miserable jobs. They tell you they are "making a living". No they're not. They're dying, frittering away their fast extinguishing lives doing things which are, at best, meaningless and, at worst, harmful. ........... Do not waste the vast majority of your life doing something you hate so that you can spend the small remainder sliver of your life in modest comfort. .... Instead, play. Find something you enjoy doing. Do it. Over and over again. You will be good at it for 2 reasons: you like it, and you do it often. Soon, that will have value in itself."
" Be wary of the truth. ...... The truth has great capacity to offend and injure, and you will find that the closer you are to someone, the more care you must take to disguise or even conceal the truth. There is great virtue in being evasive, or equivocating. ...... Any child can blurt out the truth, without thought of the consequences. It takes great maturity to appreciate the value of silence."
"In order to be wary of the truth, you must first know it. That requires great frankness to yourself. Never fool the person in the mirror"
"I now say this to you: be hated. It's not easy as it sounds. .... Every great figure who has contributed to the human race has been hated, not just by one person, but by a great many. That hatred is so strong that it has caused those great figures to be shunned, abused, murdered and in one famous instance, nailed to the cross. One does not have to be evil to be hated. In fact, it's often the case that one is hated precisely because one is trying to do right by one's own convictions. It is far too easy to be liked, one merely has to be accommodating and hold no strong convictions. Then one will gravitate towards the centre and settle into the average. That cannot be your role. There are a great many bad people in the world, and if you are not offending them, you must be bad yourself (amen to this). Popularity is a sure sign that you are doing something wrong."
"Fall in love. I didn't say "be loved". That requires too much compromise. If one changes one's looks, personality and values, one can be loved by anyone. ....... You may expect it to happen naturally, without deliberation. ....... It's far easier to find a reason not to love someone, than otherwise. Rejection requires only one reason. Love requires complete acceptance. It is hard work - the only work i find palatable. Loving someone has great benefits. There is admiration, learning, attraction, and something which, for the want of a better word, we call happiness. In loving someone, we become inspired to better ourselves in every way. We learn the worthlessness of material things."
"....... love doesnt happen by chance, at first sight, across a crowded dance floor. It grows slowly, sinking roots first before branching and blossoming. It is not a silly weed, but a mighty tree that weathers every storm. You will find that when you love someone, that the face is less important than the brain, and the body is less important than the heart."
"You will also find that it is no great tragedy if your love is not reciprocated. You are not doing this to be loved back. Its value is to inspire you. Finally, you will find that there is no half-measure when it comes to loving someone. You either don't, or you do with every cell of your body, completely and utterly, without reservation or apology. It consumes you, and you are reborn, all the better for it"
"Don't work. Avoid telling the truth. Be hated. Love someone. You're going to have a busy life. Thank goodness there's no life expectancy."
I don't think there's any need to explain any of it. You either get it or you don't.
I'm truly inspired to live life as a Christian now. I've been a really lousy witness to God in my life. I mean, sayin grace before meals, doing your quiet time. There's only so much you can attempt to falsify when you live your life insulting others, laughin at other's misery, disrespecting authority, swearing (both of which i am truly guilty of), lying/cheating, being materialistic and living for money, and basically, being mean while living by the world's expectations, not God's. I have been making a conscious effort to change after being assign to teach the younger kids at church. I mean, when they are at their most impressionable age, being a good example is the basic responsibility one should have. I've not been exactly the best example with the life i've been living, but hey, its never too late to change aye?
Whether or not you've read all the way to here, or just scrolled to the end, i just hope that everyone and anyone will be inspired. Ignore how you appear to be, be true to your intentions. Why be one of sinful society? Live your dreams, not your lives.
