1. Environment is multi-faceted. There will always be a few recalcitrants you can’t reform, and it’s not your fault.
2. Advice takes very long to sink in, especially good ones. If it takes effect like a magic pill, be very worried.
3. The best intentions will invariably go awry. That’s why they are the best: they need a counter-test from the dark side to prove its mettle.
4. People will always take the good and kind for granted. “It’s too late to regret” will not be a gnomic saying if not.
5. The best efforts are often unnoticed. People only wake up when: (1) There’s an accident; (2) Someone you love leaves.
6. If everyone is busy, busy becomes a norm and ceases to exist. What you do thus reflects your priorities, and your priorities highlight what you really value in life.
7. When you want it, it’s not there. When you get it, you take it for granted. When you lose it, you want it again.
8. People seldom learn from their mistakes because they are too afraid to confront them in the first place.
9. It is very difficult to change your personality: a tiger cannot be a lamb, and a lamb cannot be a tiger. Harmonise your environment to your nature instead of killing yourself without assurance of the right reincarnation.
10. Amnesia is the permanent condition of humanity. That’s why we need reminders again and again. And there are reminders. Again. This is why patience is the greatest virtue.
11. If children cannot learn now, fear not, for there is always a school for them. It’s called the school of hard knocks.

12:46 pm  •  26 April 2011  •  1 note