According to the United States Census Bureau, the world's population has touched 6.974 billion whereas the United Nations Census says that it has exceeded 7 million. Whatever the figure is, the world's population has grown by leaps and bounds. There are people, people and people wherever.
How many have come into our lives and stay ? How many have left our lives? How many have left footprints on our lives? How many have pissed us off? How many have we chosen not to remember? How many have we remembered fondly?
Some say that people can be divided into four classes: 1) Those who always do less than they are told, 2) Those who will do what they are told, but nothing more, 3) Those will do things without being told, and 4) Those who will inspire others to do things. - William J H Boetcker
Indira Ghandi said that her grandfather once told her that there are two kinds of people; those who work and those who take the credit. He told her to try to be in the first group since there is less competition there.
It has also been noticed that there are five types of people" those who make things happen; those who think they make things happen; those who watch things happen; those who wonder what happen; those that did not know that anything had happened.
Buddha has this to say. There are three kinds of people in the world. The first are like letters carved in the rock: they easily give way to anger and retain their angry thoughts for a long time. The second are like letters written in the sand: they give way to anger also, but their angry thought quietly pass away. The third are like letters written in running water; they do not retain their passing thoughts; they let abuse and uncomfortable gossips pass by unnoticed; their minds are always pure and undisturbed.
To think that we are one of the 7 billion is very daunting. To count how many friends we have out of the 7 billion is even more daunting ! Yours Sincerely ( Y s ) is regretful that in his 35 years of career, he had had hardly made three friends in the true sense of the word " friend.' Even his very own colleagues, some had had worked with him for 30 years did not turn out to be his friends. In fact, Y S has made more friends in his two years of retirement than during 35 years of his career. Pathetic when you think that the world's population has touched 7 billion. There is no secret as to why, but the simple truth that " if you go out looking for friends, you are going to find they are scare. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere."
4 comments:
Our life is too short to be spent searching. Buddha also says: Look withing and I think that means there is a friend in us.
Hello Thomas,
Amazing thoughts about the different kind of people.
It is mind boggling to know that the world has seven billion people. I wonder how many people enjoy freedom in their country and how many people are are being ruled with an iron hand. I wonder how many people are rich and how many people are poor. How many people get too much too eat and how many are starving, how many people can buy whatever they want without batting and eye lid and many cannot afford the basic necessities of life and how many people live in mansions and how many people who cannot even a small house.
Yes, if we want to make friends we should be good friends ourselves.
Very interesting post.
Joseph
footiam : in a way you are right.
Joseph : for all your questions I have to say, " many,...many,...and many...."
Re: making friends, better late than never, pa. Besides, I don't think you should beat yourself up over your 35 yrs of not making or meeting any 'true friends'. I believe certain friends 'full their purpose' in our life and as we move on, so do they. Just view them as 'projects'. Once it's completed, wash your hands and start another project - in this case, continue looking for more friends.
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