Good Luck Bad Luck! Who Knows?

There is a Chinese story of a farmer who used an old horse to till his fields. One day, the horse escaped into the hills and when the farmer's neighbors sympathized with the old man over his bad luck, the farmer replied, "Bad luck? Good luck? Who knows?" A week later, the horse returned with a herd of horses from the hills and this time the neighbors congratulated the farmer on his good luck. His reply was, "Good luck? Bad luck? Who knows?"

Then, when the farmer's son was attempting to tame one of the wild horses, he fell off its back and broke his leg. Everyone thought this very bad luck. Not the farmer, whose only reaction was, "Bad luck? Good luck? Who knows?"

Some weeks later, the army marched into the village and conscripted every able-bodied youth they found there. When they saw the farmer's son with his broken leg, they let him off. Now was that good luck or bad luck?

Who knows?

Everything that seems on the surface to be an evil may be a good in disguise. And everything that seems good on the surface may really be an evil. So we are wise when we leave it to God to decide what is good fortune and what misfortune, and thank him that all things turn out for good with those who love him.

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Challenge of teaching

Teacher: ok class our lesson 4 today is about planet. earth
is the 3rd planed from the sun. now what is next to mercury?

Pedro: murag rose pharmacy mn tingali mam! d ko lang sure.

Expectant fathers

Go to the hospital

Four expectant fathers were in a Minneapolis hospital waiting room, while their wives were in labor.

The nurse arrived and announced to the first man, "Congratulations sir, you're the father of twins."

"What a coincidence!" the man said with some obvious pride. "I work for the Minnesota Twins baseball team."

The nurse returned in a little while and turned to the second man, "You, sir, are the father of triplets."

"Wow, that's really an incredible coincidence," he answered. "I work for the 3M Corporation. My buddies at work will never let me live this one down."

An hour later, while the other two men were passing cigars around, the nurse came back. This time, she turned to the third man, who had been quiet in the corner. She announced that his wife had just given birth to quadruplets. Stunned, he barely could reply.

"Don't tell me another coincidence?" asked the nurse.

After finally regaining his composure, he said, "I don't believe it, I work for the Four Seasons Hotel."

After hearing this, everybody's attention turned to the fourth guy, who had just fainted, flat out on the floor. The nurse rushed to his side and, after some time, he slowly gained back his consciousness.

The nurse asked, "Sir, are you all right?"

"Yes" says the man, "I'm o.k. now. I just had a shocking thought. I work at the 7-11 Store."

Grandfather's Story

Pilosopo Tasyo Exam

Challenge of Teaching

The Law of the Garbage Truck

‎"One day, I hopped into a taxi and took off for the airport . We were driving in the right lane when suddenly, a black car, jumped out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed the brakes, skidded, and missed the other car by just inches! The driver of the other car whipped his head around and started yelling at us. My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. I mean, was really friendly. So I asked, "Why did you just do that? This guy almost ruined your car and sent us to the hospital!" This is when my taxi driver taught me what I now call, 'The Law of the Garbage Truck'

He explained, "Many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment. As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it and sometimes they'll dump it on you. NEVER take it personally. Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on with the routine life." Don't take their garbage and spread it to other people at work, at home or on the streets.

The bottom line is that successful people do not let garbage trucks take over their day. Life's too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, so...... 'Love the people who treat you right.. Pray for the ones who don't.'

A very rightly said quote: Life is 10% what you make and 90% how you take !!!"

Ubuntu: I am because we are

An anthropologist proposed a game to African tribe kids. He put a basket full of fruit near a tree and told them that whoever got there first won the sweet fruits. When he told them to run they all took each others hands and ran together, then sat together enjoying their treats. When he asked them why they had run like that as one could have had all the fruits for himself they said: UBUNTU, how can one of us be happy if all the other ones are sad?

UBUNTU in the Xhosa culture means: "I am because we are".

The Dream

A certain rich businessman had a beautiful daughter, who fell in love
with a guy who was a cleaner. When the girl's father came to know about
their love, he did not like it at all, and so began to protest about
it.

Now it happened that the two lovers decided to leave their homes for a
happy future. The girl's father started searching for the two lovers
but could not find them.

At last, he accepted their love and asked them to come back home in a
local newspaper. Her father said "If you both come back I will allow
you to marry the guy you love, I accept that you loved each other
truly."

So in this way, their love won and they returned home. The couple went
to town to shop for the wedding dress. He was dressed in white shirt
that day. While he was crossing the road to the other side to get some
drinks for his wife, a car came and hit him and he died on the spot.

The girl lost her senses. It was only after sometimes that she recovered
from her shock. The funeral and cremation was the very next day because
he had died horribly.

Two nights later, the girl's mother had a dream in which she saw an old
lady. The old lady asked her mother to wash the blood stains of the guy
from her daughter's dress as soon as possible. But her mother ignored
the dream. The next night her father had the same dream, he also ignored
it.

Then when the girl had the same dream the next night, she woke up in
fear and told her mother about the dream. Her mother asked her to wash
the clothes which have blood stains immediately.

She washed the stains but some remained.. Next night she
again had the same dream she again washed the stains but some still
remained. Next night she again had the same dream and this time the old
lady gave her a last warning to wash the blood stain, or else something
terrible will happen.

This time the girl tried her best to wash the stains, and the clothes
nearly tore, but some stains still remained.

She was very tired. In the late evening the same day while she was
alone at home, someone knocked the door. When she opened the door she
saw the same old lady of her dream standing at her door. She got very
scared and fainted.

The old lady woke her up... and gave her a white object, which shocked
the girl. She asked "What is this...?" The old lady replied...
"Gumamit ka ng TIDE. P6.50 na lang, mas pinalaki pa!"

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