Mankind has created many objects to capture what has happened. It starts from text, then picture, now video. But some things can only be captured with your natural sensors.
In an unexpected manner, summer left without saying goodbye. The season of fall took control over the hemisphere, with rain and strong wind joining in the party. It is exactly days like this that suits the story about the unwavering optimism of a little boy :
On a gloomy, raining morning, it came little-eight-years-old Tommy's turn to say blessings over the breakfast. Tommy began to pray and say "God, I thank you for this beautiful day, and wonderful breakfast. Amen." After that, Tommy's mother immediately asked him, saying "Son, why did you say that it's a beautiful day when it is nothing near a beautiful day?" Do you know what Tommy replied? He said, "Mother, never judge a day by its weather."
Never judge a day by its weather! Wow! That really hit me hard! How do you know that a day is not a good day just because it's raining in the morning? It's all about our attitude.
Thomas Alva Edison once said that genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. I had to confess that I've been caught up waiting too long for inspiration and procrastinated to perspire. It caused me to be very down. It was even worse when things didn't work out as I planned. Then I came to God, asking all the wrong questions: why. Instead, He lovingly reminded me to continue to have faith, to see through the storm, through this story. To extend the question, just because it is raining, does it make the day bad?
While we have no control over our situations, we can control our reactions. While we have no control over the cards dealt to us, we can control the way we play our hand. Today, I may not have a silver bullet to all the problems on my hand. But I do know that for every obstacle that comes my way, I'll have to start knocking them down. I may not even have a hammer, but a pair of hands would do . I'll just have to start somewhere. The point is that it's never about the bullet. It's about am I going to start knocking them down, or do nothing and let them to knock me down. If Edison gave up on this 999th attempt, we may never see something called light bulb. So why should I give up?
Last night I was talking about values, or principles behind values, while we were pre-celebrating a friend's birthday. I did not get to finish my point, which was why I decided to put it up here. Feel free to express your opinion too on this point of view, after I present mine.
I mentioned that, value, is as much as the buyer offers. Worth, on the other hand, is not. I used the example of banana money to illustrate my point. Today, the worth of banana money is pretty much 0. In other words, it's worthless. It cannot be used as a medium of exchange. You cannot exchange a loaf of bread with banana money.
So, if you have in your possession, a piece of banana money, and when nobody makes an offer, the value of it is 0. Say, one day, someone comes by and offer you $10 for that banana money. Now, your banana money has a perceived value of $10. But, until the moment you exchange your banana money with that $10, the value of your banana money is still 0.
Now, if if there are two contenders, one offering $10, and the other offering $20, it's slightly different. So now the value of your banana money depends on which buyer you sold it to. Your banana money does not worth $20 if you sold it to the buyer who paid you $10.
There you go. But I am pretty sure there's a point that I wanted to make then, but, now I lost it. Nevermind.
