never be the one that ask to give me

today i read a newspaper news , in fact it was a sad news article . yet i came to ponder a few things about it. And i really found that any incident that occur, one can analysis it at a many different angles. There are many places that one can look at the weakness and improve on it. In fact, you may learn that it is there are so many things that you need to do than your two hand and 1 brain can handle at any time. I guess this is what human always face. Many problems from different angle can crop up in your life if you are not careful. all can happen in the same one second.  Just as much as i can write about almost anything with one sentence as an opening (well.. i usually face mental block whenever comes to writing but today it seem so naturally).

The news story in fact had remind me one old story. There was a farmer who happen to saw a lion that is injure and couldn't move. Another tiger came and bring it food. And thus the farmer think that it is very good that there is some kind of help coming from the heaven. and thus the farmer sit down and do nothing, waiting for heaven favour .  The farmer grew weak as day pass and one day a monk happen to pass by. the monk ask what happen, the farmer told the monk the story. The monk say " you should learn to be the tiger not the lion" .

and i guess i learn one thing . that is one should learn how to be the one that gives instead to be the one that ask people to give. getting/hinting someone to give something away when they are not doing it out of their own willingness is probably same as taking away something from someone before the time has come. that is selfishness motives on the one who ask for it.

while i would have been more like the farmer. but there are lessons that each of us had to learn. There are times there are mistakes we done is only a very minor mistake and thus the error is small, but for the rest of us. some small mistake will cost us our entire life .  I guess i have to start be the tiger instead of the farmer.