But that's not the point.
Our chat is the point. Quote Mr Freddy Teo :-
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Freddy:
I learn this in a leadership seminar.
Okay, imagine you're James Bond. Let's say you're in a dark alley and you're ambush by three big huge guys with knives and guns. They want to kill you. What are you going to do?
Stand and fight? Or run?
After evaluating the situation (I said run).
Okay, so you'll run. After running for a while, the alley turned left. What are you going to do?
Turn left.
You kept running until you reach a dead end but there's a built in ladder up the tall wall. What will you do?
Climb up the ladder.
After climbing up the ladder, you see a light. A door at the opposite side of the wall opened. What are you going to do?
Jump across.
So there you are in the room when the door lock shut behind you, leaving the three armed men behind.
Now the walls in the room started to closed in.
Closer and closer. 1 meter apart now.
Suddenly a hole opened up on the floor just right in front of you. But the hole is full of shit. Yet, there's still space for you to stand without drowning in shit. What are you going to do?
Jump in.
Now you're in a hole full with shit. The hole closes.
What do you feel?
Sue Ann:
Claustrophobic. I feel like crap, I feel stupid. I hate being here. I don't want to be here.
Freddy:
Where do you want to be?
Sue Ann:
Anywhere but here.
Freddy:
Why?
What if I tell you that being in the shit is the best place you could possibly be?
Sue Ann:
?
Freddy:
You see, the hole full of shit is your only available option at that time. What else can you do? You have no other option than the hole full of shit.
Sue Ann:
And your point is?
Freddy:
People are often unhappy because they always think that they could have done better. They could have did this, did that. Go here, go there. But what they don't know is, what they are now, or what they have done, is like James Bond ending up in the hole of shit. There's no other options. This is your only feasible option.
Sue Ann:
(For argument sake, I love to argue) But there's always choice. There HAVE to be choice no matter what in the beginning. And you have to choose. And what you choose is what happen to you now. What do you mean by no other option? For example, James Bond choose to run not to fight. If he had chosen to fight, he may not end up in a hole full of shit.
Freddy:
Correct. Human nature always teach us to choose we thought is best for us at that certain point of time. James Bond thought that he'll be better off running than fight off three huge men with knives and guns. He may end up dead for all he knows. So he decided.
Can't you see? When faces with a choice, people ALWAYS choose what they think is their best alternative. So in the end, it's their only choice.
For example, people are always complaining about something. But (majority of them) if you look back, and check out your options, you'll realized that you could do nothing better. That was your only feasible option.
This seminar does not teaches us 'How to do Better' but 'Be Happy with What You Do'.
Sue Ann:
So in this argument, people always choose what they think is right for them at that moment of the life? Meaning to say, you should regret what you did. If this is how it's supposed to be, why regret?
Hey, this is already what I believe in anyway. No regrets ;) I don't need a leadership seminar to teach me that. Unlike you. (And here the mocking goes on, which is uninteresting unless you want to hear what can be mocked about Mr Freddy Teo)
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The moral of the story is, just be happy with who you are and what you turn out to be. If whatever things that befalls you (good or bad) did not, you would not have become who you are now. Just embrace what is, IS. And live your life with no regrets.
Be happy.
And know you'll always choose what's best for you.
Trust yourself and your judgement.
For better of worse, You made that choice :)
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