STRESSED or DESSERTS, your choice ?

Let me share with you today on an email I read about lately. STRESSED and DESSERTS.

There is a subtle correlation between the two, what is it relevant connection? It might not be obvious if you don’t read it the second time. The word STRESSED, if you read it from the right to left spells DESSERTS. Therefore, "STRESSED are just DESSERTS if you can turn around the situation."

What a coincident to the statement Light has made few weeks ago, “if you can’t resist it, take it”

I personally reckons that it really makes a huge difference when I look at the meanings of these two words plainly, just from the meanings: Initially when the word STRESSED come to mind, I envision tension, worry, anxiety and all the negative characteristics; but it magically became sweets, multi-flavored and multicolored delicious ice creams and tiramisu when I see the word DESSERTS.

Such a simple reversal of words totally turned my focus 180 degrees around to see things from another light.

There are lots of pressures and frustrations in life, but as long as long as we can make a switch, wisely, when we embrace these feelings, thus when our mindset is tuned, we find that we can look at all of these pressure and frustration from another angle. Our perception transforms the negative vibes to become the desserts in our life!

As a Chinese saying goes: "Life is like a bowl of rice, half sweet, half bitter, you have a choice of which side of the bowl you will start, with different ways of delivering the rice with your chopstick to your mouth, but certainly and eventually you will finished your bowl of rice regardless of whatsoever course of action you choose in between!”



The moral of the saying is that life, for all the sweet, bitter, sour or spicy is a journey of experience; and at the end of the journey you will have gone through all these! Below is the story I would like to share with you:

One fine day, a primary school teacher in the remote village asked her class, “Children, can you remember someone you hate?” Some of the children remained silent while others nodded vigorously. The teacher then issued to each person a empty bag and said: "Let’s play a game. Let us all now think of the person(s) in the past week that may have offended you, think about the bad things that he or she has done to you and go to the river bank after school to pick up a stone from the river bank, paste the name of the person on to the stone. Take a bigger stone if the offense is great, or else paste on a small stone if it is a minor offense”

“Take the bag to school everyday, will you?” the teacher reminded the students.

The students were all very interested and excited and sure enough everyone rushes to the river to look for stones after school.

Early the next morning, they have filled the bag with the cobblestones from the river bank and were happily discussing about it.

Days passed and they were still collecting their stone everyday and filling them into the bag. However some of them had almost filled the entire bag and it has become a burden to them. Finally, some students protested to their teacher that they are tired carrying all these stone with them. The teacher smile but said nothing. Immediately a student shouted "It is really tiring to load and carry the stones to and fro everyday to school!"

At this juncture, the teacher said with a smile: "So just put down all the stones, all that signifies the faults others have done to you!”

Some children were surprised when the teacher told them gently: "Learn to forgive faults, do not take it harshly inside your heart and do not carry it on your shoulders. As times goes on, no one could stand it..."

This group of students has learned a very valuable lesson in their life:
“Stones” that keep filling in the pocket will stay inside your heart. The hatred will deepen, thus the burden will be heavy.

I like the old saying: "Forgiving another's fault, accredits to our own glory."




We must learn when to let go wisely to feel free! STRESSED FREE!

Salt

p/s do you have a stone that written my name on it ? :)