Once, I've seen an article that made me interested.
One day, one person took out a piece of white paper, and draw a small dot on the paper. Then, he took the paper to the street.
He asked a young man: "What have you seen?"
The young man replied: "a small dot on the paper."
Then, he asked another man: "What have you seen?"
The man replied: "a small dot on the paper."
Another lady walked by, so he asked: "What have you seen?"
Again, the lady gave the same answer: "a small dot on the paper"
He continue to ask and ask, but all of the people he asked, he get the same answer over and over again.
Finally, he came across a cute little boy, around age of 3. He asked: "What have you seen, cute little guy?"
The little boy replied: "Paper.."
Of all the adolescence and adults he asked, EVERY one of them noticed the small dot. But, when it comes to a pure mind of a child, a piece of paper is what he saw.
This article made me think of a lot of things.. Why has everyone notice the tiny little dot, while neglecting the whole piece of paper? Why has everyone focus on the dark mark, while ignoring the whole piece of white places?
When I think it with life, I realised, that is the reality. No matter how good you are, people will just notice the bad part of you. Good deeds that you have done, will get the applause for that moment, or just ignored by people. After that, that memory just fade in people's mind. BUT, all the bad deeds that you have done, no matter how small it is, people will notice it immediately. People just tend to focus on small matters, and neglected the whole big picture. Some people will just obsessed into some small matters, and got blinded on what happen around them.
Rumours, scandal, cheating, breaking the law. These are the news that interest most people. I think these news is what makes newspapers as best selling reading materials on earth. How irony it is, people actually LIKE to watch people make mistake, watch tragedies. "September, 11th." Almost everyone i know buy themselves a copy of newspaper. "Donation for salvation army" I bet most people will neglect this article.
Actually, I realised that when I faced a problem, before that I just have one aim : solve it. It was really stress, if I cant solve it, whole day just no mood at all. Now, when problem suffice, I'll take a step back, and look at the problem, I mean the big picture. I found alternatives, that can solve the problem, the road not taken. That's what I learnt. I just hope that people will take a pit stop, think from others point of view, only then get on with the problem.
What you see is not equal to what happened.
The road not taken is not the wrong road taken.
~~Peace to the world~~
