~Anyway~

Anyway

(A poem found engraved on the wall of Mother Teresa's home for children in Calcutta)

People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind,

people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some
false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank,

people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building,
someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness,
they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.

The good you do today,

people will forget tomorrow,
Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have,

and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you've got ... anyway.

You see, in the final analysis,

it is between you and God,
It never was between you and them anyway

What people may say or do is really not something we can control but yet it has influenced us in some or other ways that we may never be aware of. Sometimes, we might got so caught up & may even be so consumed by how the world response. How important is it to know how the world is looking upon us? Though it was never between me(or us) and them, just between me (or us) and God, I still,at times, feel the neccessity to know about that because 'no man is an island'. We are all blessed with a pair of eyes..be it the physical eyes or the eyes in our heart..we have different point of views to offer. We may not all share the same thoughts but all the thoughts can surely be shared together.

How do we go on believing how the rest of the world is looking upon us then?This reminds me of a chinese phrase: "一人传虚，万人传实" . It is just like when one speaks of something untrue,it may still be as it is,..when 2 or 3 person speaks of the same thing, there goes rumours.., when everyone starts speaking of the same 'rumours', we might end up believing the rumour itself. (do correct me if i am wrong)

Anyhow, no matter how the others or the world may be treating us, i believe it is important that we do not allow ourself to be consumed by all these..Why allow others to bring us to the fault line?...at the end, it is still and just between us and God anyway.

To do all these anyway may not easy to achieve but as like what i've always hold on to, 'it may be hard but it is not impossible'.