MEANINGFUL CODES TO LIVE BY..

[FCGY]

Don't let your life slip through your fingers by living in the past or for the future. By living your life one day at a time, you live all days of your life.

[FCGY]

If better is possible, then good is not enough.

[FCGY]

How can u be at ur best when u never had a chance to rest?

[FCGY]

A knowledge on majorities thinker and minority thinker.... just reflect what you are and are you doing this rightly or wrongly.

A group of children were playing near two railway tracks, one still in use while the other disused. Only one child played on the disused track, the rest on the operational track.

The train came, and you were just beside the track interchange. You could make the train change its course to the disused track and saved most of the kids. However, that would also mean the lone child playing by the disused track would be sacrificed. Or would you rather let the train go its way?

Let's take a pause to think what kind of decision we could make.............

How do you decide?
No cheating...
What is your decision?






Most people might choose to divert the course of the train, and sacrifice only one child. You might think the same way, I guess.

Exactly, I thought the same way initially because to save most of the children at the expense of only one child was rational decision most people would make, morally and emotionally. But, have you ever thought that the child choosing to play on the disused track had in fact made the right decision to play at a safe place? Nevertheless, he had to be sacrificed because of his ignorant friends who chose to play where the danger was.

This kind of dilemma happens around us everyday. In the office, community, in politics and especially in a democratic society, the minority is often sacrificed for the interest of the majority, no matter how foolish or ignorant the majority is, and how farsighted and knowledgeable the minority is. The child who chose not to play with the rest on the operational track was sidelined. And in the case he was sacrificed, no one would shed a tear for him.

The friend who forwarded me the story said he would not try to change the course of the train because he believed that the kids playing on the operational track should have known very well that track was still in use and that they should have run away if they heard the train's sirens. If the train was diverted, that lone child would definitely die because he never thought the train could come over to that track!

Moreover, that track was not in use probably because it was not safe. If the train was diverted to the track, we could put the lives of all passengers on board at stake! And in your attempt to save a few kids by sacrificing one child, you might end up sacrificing hundreds of people to save these few kids.

While we are all aware that life is full of tough decisions that need to be made, we may not realize that hasty decisions may not always be the right one.

"Remember that what's right isn't always popular... and what's popular isn't always right."

Everybody makes mistakes; that's why they put erasers on pencils

[FCGY]

"When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was
smiling.

Live your life, live good & well. So at the end, you're the one who is smiling when
everyone around you is crying."

[FCGY]

A cup of water

A group of working adults got together to visit their University lecturer. The Lecturer was happy to see them. Conversation soon turned into complaints stress in work and life. The lecturer just smiled and went to the kitchen to get an assortment of cups - some porcelain, some in plastic, some in glass, some plain looking and some looked rather expensive and exquisite. The Lecturer offered his former students the cups to get drinks for themselves.


When all the students had a cup in hand with water, the Lecturer spoke: If you noticed, all the nice looking, expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal that you only want the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. What all you wanted was water, not the cup, but we unconsciously went for the better cups. Just like in life, if Life is Water, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold / maintain Life, but the quality of Life doesn't change. If we only concentrate on the cup, we won't have time to enjoy / taste the water in it. Ability may take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

-John Wooden, Basketball Coach -

[FCGY]

The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

[FCGY]

SUN TZU

The Choice is Still Ours
“There are some roads which we must not follow, some enemy troops we must not fight, some cities we must not attack, some grounds we must not contest, even some orders which we must not obey.”

Be Holistic in Views
“One who does not understand the calamity of war shall be unable to comprehend the advantage of war.”

Gaps
“When the common soldiers are stronger than their commanding officers, they will insubordinate. When the officers are too strong and the troops are weak, the result is collapse.”

[FCGY]

Five Virtues of Leadership

Wisdom
Trust
Strictness
Courage
Benevolence

[jamesbond]

The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up.