Genuineness is a highly underrated virtue, yet it is the one that can arguably touch the most lives and reach the most hearts. We live our lives under various masks and guises, sometimes even in front of ourselves. Yet, when we can strip away these layers of protective covering, placed their because we are inadvertently [...]
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Hurt always stems from expectations not met. Only those from whom we expect a certain behavioural response can actually hurt or disappoint us. If we do not expect another to behave according to our expectations, we do not set ourselves up to be hurt. This is not to be confused with love. We can love [...]
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Behind every individual lies the great story of his or her life. We meet many people every day. On this vast canvas of human life, each individual seems like a mere two-dimensional dot. That is if we take people at face value. In actual fact, each one of those dots is a three-dimensional line, with [...]
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The biggest single hindrance I have observed that prevents Malaysian young people from fulfilling their potential as human beings is lack of self-acceptance or self-confidence. This probably stems from the Asian culture where from young parental praise and encouragement is considered taboo, with parents instead publicly continuously criticising their children in the belief it is [...]
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Posted in On life..., tagged life, stress, hurry on 6 October, 2007 | No Comments »
Driving along the highway the other day made me think of how like cars on the highway our lifestyles have become. Cars usually drive in the fast lane because they’re always in a hurry to get where they’re going. At the same time, they have to be careful to keep enough distance between them and [...]
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Posted in On life..., tagged introduction, life on 6 October, 2007 | No Comments »
Life is like a 3D picture. Sometimes we just cannot see the whole picture. All we can see are the dots, spots and weird abstract designs. But then, very suddenly, everything comes into focus when we get our perspective right and we can instantly see the eagle, the empire state building, the tyrannosaurus rex… and [...]
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