CONTRASTING VIEWS

Two friends a Chinese in the name of Mr. Chan and his Filipino friend Mr. Juan met to a waiting area of the school they sent their sons. As usual they greeted each other and engage in a conversation of a long time no see friends covering the topics about their family’s friend’s favorites and situations in life. Normally Mr. Chan is a well known business man being a Chinese while Mr. Juan being a Filipino was popular from being self reliance. Then comes the time when the class is finished from that day that their sons are approaching and as their sons arrived at the place where they are waiting, Mr. Juan immediately reach for the bag of his son, the same with Mr. Chan to his son. But as they part their ways Mr. Juan introduced his son to Mr. Chan bragging for his son's high score and grades to his class and also did by Mr. Chan introducing his son to Mr. Juan admitting that his son has low grades in his classes but at least he passed his grades. Now, because of his sons brilliance in his classes Mr. Juan proudly advised his son in a little bit loud voice to be heard by Mr. Chan saying "son study hard so that when you graduate from college with honors you will be hired by a top well known big company ",surely Mr. Chan heard what Mr. Juan said to his son so he also said to his son “son learn hard in school so that when you graduate from college you will know how to establish that top well known big company" and so there it goes the truth that followed. Now the lesson learned in this story was to be very careful to what kind of advise we are going to share to our children because it would become a print out for them to follow in the future, as we see in this story the implication of two different mindset. One advised his son to study hard just to work while the other advised his son to learn hard to make a work that definitely doesn’t need his presence. In this case it seems its better to learn from Mr. Chan and his fellow Chinese businessmen, to copy their way of thinking and of doing. So that in the future to come our children won’t rely on chasing a work one after the other but to learn how to make money not from their sweet and blood but to make money from their money that works. This is all that I can share thank you for reading, God Bless us all.