By Dr Paul Bundi Human beings are endowed with remarkable resilience, which can only be broken when they choose to give up. Says Viktor Frankl in his seminal book, Man's Search for Meaning; ''it is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future-sub specie aeternitatis. And this is his salvation in thd most difficult moments of his existence, although he sometimes has to force his mind to the task.'' Man's life is primarily driven by the desire for future, the unshakable belief that the future holds promise. We invariably cease to live when we think we have hit a dead end, or that there's nothing more to be had by living. Theoretically, there is no limit to man's achievement, and that is what drives men to wake up and strive day after day. The opposite is spiritual, psychological death, which manifests way ahead of physical death. Lesson? Losing today doesn't mean losing always. You can lose 10 times and win the 11th time. Or, you...
Pencil: " I'm sorry..
Eraser: " For what ??
You didn't do anything wrong..
Pencil: " I'm sorry, you get hurt
because of me..Whenever I made a
mistake,you're
always there to erase it, But as
you make my mistakes vanish, you
lose a part of yourself and get smaller and smaller each time...
Eraser: " That's true, but I don't
reallymind, You see, I was made to do
this, I was made to help you
whenever you do something
wrong, even though one day I
know I'll be gone.. I'm actually
happy with my job.. So please, stop worrying
I hate seeing you sad.....
"Our Parents are like the eraser,
where as we children are the
pencil..They're always there for
their children, cleaning up their
mistakes.. Sometimes along the
way they get hurt and become smaller(older and eventually pass on)
Take care of your Parents, treat
them with kindness and most
especially love them."May God
give your parents long life,
AMEN!!
Eraser: " For what ??
You didn't do anything wrong..
Pencil: " I'm sorry, you get hurt
because of me..Whenever I made a
mistake,you're
always there to erase it, But as
you make my mistakes vanish, you
lose a part of yourself and get smaller and smaller each time...
Eraser: " That's true, but I don't
reallymind, You see, I was made to do
this, I was made to help you
whenever you do something
wrong, even though one day I
know I'll be gone.. I'm actually
happy with my job.. So please, stop worrying
I hate seeing you sad.....
"Our Parents are like the eraser,
where as we children are the
pencil..They're always there for
their children, cleaning up their
mistakes.. Sometimes along the
way they get hurt and become smaller(older and eventually pass on)
Take care of your Parents, treat
them with kindness and most
especially love them."May God
give your parents long life,
AMEN!!
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