From childhood I love to hear stories. Both oral and written. Don't know why, for me there is always a lesson from the story I heard. Here's one story I want to share:
Once upon a time there was a poor farmer who lived with a son. They only have a skinny horse who daily helps them work their meager fields. One day, the horse pack the one farmer disappeared, just ran away from the cage to the forest.
People in the village who heard the news
said: "O farmer, it's your luck!"
The farmer just replied, "Poor or lucky? I don't know ..."
The next day, it turned out that Pak Tani's horse returned to his cage, carrying 100 wild horses from the forest. Soon Pak Tani's not-so-vast field was filled with 100 mighty stallions. People from the village flocked and immediately gathered around the expensive "collection" of horses with admiration. Horse traders immediately bid the horses at high prices, to be defused and sold. Pak Tani also received large sums of money, leaving only 1 wild horse for gardening to help his old horse.
People in the village who saw the event
said: "O farmer, how lucky are you!"
The farmer just replied, "Poor or lucky? I don't know ..."
The next day, Pak Tani's son eagerly tried to tame his new horse. However, it turned out that the horse was too strong, so the young man fell and broke his leg.
People in the village who saw the event
said: "O farmer, it's your luck!"
The farmer just replied, "Poor or lucky? I don't know ..."
The young man lay with his feet wrapped around to heal his broken leg. It takes a long time for the broken bone to be good again. The next day, came the King's War Commander to the village. And ordered all the young men to join the king's army to fight the enemy in a distant place. All young people must join, except those who are sick and disabled. Pak Tani's son doesn't have to fight.
People in the village tear down their sons and fight, and say: "O farmer, you are lucky!"
The farmer just replied, "Poor or lucky? I don't know ..."
The story above, reveals an attitude that is often called: non-judgment. As human beings, we have limitations to understand the series of events skenariokan the director. What we call today as "bad luck", perhaps in the future just discovered is the road to "luck". So people like Mr. Farmer above, stop to "judge" events with labels "lucky", "bad luck", and so on. They flow in his life. Because, who we are is judging the events that we really don't know how the end result will be. An employee whose company was fired, may not be a "bad luck", when it turns out that the job-less status has been whipped and paved the way for himself to become a big entrepreneur. So stop judging what happened today, because ... really we don't know