Lesson from the Rain

The Rain, it not the Korean actor I am talking about, it this the water falling from the sky that I am talking about.

On the early morning of the National Day. I went from my morning jog. The sky looks clear. As I was starting my jog, I felt and saw a few drop of water falling from the sky, but it is only for a short while. So I continue with my jog. As I jog, I was thinking if I continue to jog so slowly, there will be no improvement to my overall strength. So I run a bit faster than ususal. There were quite a few old folk in the park, and most of them wear red. As I was approaching the execise area, the rain came pouring down, and I really mean pouring down. So now I ran even faster. I though the rain is a good motivator.It really pushed me to run faster. As I run, the people in the park reacted differently to this down pour. Some just walk at their usual speed, some cover their head with hands and running towards the shelters.

Then I occurred to me that there is one teaching which I have come across many time, really mean. People react to things/events according to what they think the things/events mean to them. It was raining, which was a fact. But what does it mean to someone who is carrying a baby and someone like me who is just running in the park. It means different things.

A mother who was carrying the baby should be thinking “Suck. The baby must not get wet, if not he will fall sick.” and she runs for the nearest shelters.

A jogger should be thinking “Suck. I must not get wet, if not I will fall sick.” and then run for the nearest shelters.

An old man should be thinking “Suck. I must not get wet, if not I will fall sick.”, but too weak to run, so he walked slowly to the nearest shelters.

A stroller should be thinks “Good, this is so cooling. I will continue with my slow walk, but I do not want to be too wet.”, and continue to walk slowly to the nearest shelter.

But I was thinking “Good now I have a motivation to run”, and I run for the void deck which is far from where I was.

Lesson 1.

You will react to events according to what you think the events will do to you.

Lesson 2.

Different people react similarly to the same thing with different intention.

Lesson 3

Different people react differently to the same thing with same intention.

Lesson 4

Different people react similarly to the same thing with same intention.

Lesson 5

Difference people react differently to the same thing with different intention.

These few lessons are very usefull when things happen to us and how do we use this lesson to influence others in the event that had happened.

There is just too many lesson I can learn from this event. Will share more in the days to come.