:: Thoughts of the day ::

"true frenz are those dat walks in while the rest of the world walks out." from a Malaysia keychain tag dat 1 of my primary school buddy gave me 13 years ago.

"true frenz come to share and give, the rest are here to take only." - bryan lee, 18 dec 2004

ppl are often driven by objectives, true frenz are those driven by the objectives to benefit u and none/less to them. the rest are those who comes to u to gain something out from u. only when u r left with nothing, this is the moment where ur true frenz will be spotted easily and those who r trying to gain something out from u, will leave u. so sometimes, it's gd to have nothing in life once in a while.

"A same object received from different people, will have different impact to u." - bryan lee, 18 dec 2004

i still remember when i was in primary 4, my class was taken out to sentosa for a day visit. i dropped my wallet by mistake on the mono-rail and i was totally left with no money. at macdonald, a close fren of mine approached me and ask me to share his happy meal with him, as he can only worth 1. well...i was very hungry then, so i accepted his offer feeling quite bad. also in my heart, i felt a great warmth. hence, ever since then we became very gd frenz. until the day, his father, brother and him met a fatal accident and only he survived. after a few months, he came back, isolated himself from almost everyone and we were like total strangers. being young, i really dont know how to make him feel better and chose to have things his way. i did meet him again in poly but as were just like normal friends.

okay...back to the macdonald, our form teacher saw us sharing the food and bought me one happy meal. surprisingly, i failed to feel the same intensed amount of warmth inside me but only a gratitude of appreciation. and this issue been bothering me once in a while, sometimes when i see ppl donating money. then 1 day, i finally got the answer. the value of the happy meal from my fren is like half of his fortune, whereas for my form teacher, the value is merely a little price to him. hence the following statement was made...

"if u get a dollar from a poor man, u gain a valuable treasure. if u get a dollar from a rich man, u gain just a coin." - bryan lee


+ BL updated @ 2:46 AM

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