The power of Now

In 1914 Thomas Edison’s factory in West Orange, New Jersey, was virtually destroyed by fire. Although the damage exceeded $2 million, the buildings were insured for only $238,000 because they were made of concrete and were thought to be fireproof. Much of Edison’s life work went up in smoke and flames that December night. At the height of the fire, Edison’s 24-year-old son, Charles, searched frantically for his father. He finally found him, calmly watching the fire, his face glowing in the reflection, his white hair blowing in the wind.
“My heart ached for him,” said Charles. “He was 67 — no longer a young man — and everything was going up in flames. When he saw me, he shouted, “Charles, where’s your mother?” When I told him I didn’t know, he said, ‘Find her. Bring her here. She will never see anything like this as long as she lives.’”
The next morning, Edison looked at the ruins and said, “There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start anew.”
Three weeks after the fire, Edison managed to deliver the first phonograph...

Thomas Edison is a living proof of someone who live in the NOW.. I was so amaze when he see his lifework was gone up into flame and yet.. He was standing there watching it and asking his son to look for the mother to watch the factory gone up into smoke. I could only stared at maze how this great men outrun our mediocre thought.

I would want to adopt his kind of optimistic thinking and hell what have we got to lose anyway.

There are a month and less than 10 days before the year runs out.

I am going to make the best of it. What are you going to do?

cRy over spilled milk and get the best out of it?

There are so many people that is less fortunate in the world. Lets remember that and being grateful we still have our precious home and decent life.

I was in a seminar yesterday and the lady author quote a taiwanese monk that said : -

"We have little need in life.. too many wants in life"

Yup.. sometime to live in frugality is best and be happy.

Today my friend Lam shared with me.. he drove a big car..well, the happiness may last that several weeks and after that it is nothing. Sometime we are so caught up chasing material and illusionate success that we forfeit our own happiness and true joy in life.

So what do we gain in the end... being lonely and selfish and self gratifications.

Learn to be content and living every seconds in utmost joy..

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

“I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.”

-Eleanor Roosevelt