I listened to a video in Youtube.\u00a0 I wasn\u2019t watching it although it was a video.<\/p>\n
There was a gentleman who was talking about The Path of the Wise.<\/p>\n
No this has nothing to do with the Three Magi, also known as the Three Kings, although Christmas is just around the corner.<\/p>\n
It has something to do with how we look at our problems and consequently, how we deal with them.<\/p>\n
The gentleman started by talking about his two friends.\u00a0 One friend had a certain fight which he had taken to the court. He\u2019s been fighting for his case for six years. He probably had spent about eight hundred thousand dollars in lawyer fees and all.\u00a0 His health was failing.\u00a0 He had neglected his work. \u00a0He was always angry. He was so full of himself.\u00a0 He eventually ended up driving his family away.\u00a0 He was known in the neighborhood as the grouch. This friend was extremely miserable.
\nOn the other hand, the other friend had a better disposition in life.\u00a0 He was always cheerful.\u00a0 Ever ready to lend a helping hand and he was known in the neighborhood as the gracious old man by the hill.<\/p>\n
In contrast to the first man described in the video, this man was happily married.\u00a0 He lived in a mansion surrounded by his loving children and grandchildren.\u00a0 And anyone in the neighborhood didn\u2019t think twice in approaching him.<\/p>\n
This man is not a saint.\u00a0 He was like other men who had their fair share of tribulations in life. But he adapted a better way of solving his fights.\u00a0 \u00a0He accepted them and faced his fight mildly and with humility. He looked at his enemy with a benevolent eye, like he was never offended.\u00a0 As if he could see through the other\u2019s conflicts.<\/p>\n
One day, he had a misunderstanding with his colleague.\u00a0\u00a0 Being a kindhearted man, he had a practice of not letting the sun set on a quarrel.\u00a0 So he took his \u201cnemesis\u201d to a coffee shop and spent about ten dollars \u00a0for their coffee. They recognized their differences like gentlemen and shook hands in the end. They parted ways laughing at their pettiness.<\/p>\n
Not all people can be like the first or the second man in the story.\u00a0 But somehow, I can\u2019t help reflecting on how I perceive a conflict especially if I\u2019m in it.
\nWhich of the two paths will you take? Will you choose the way of the wise and the humble or that of the querulous and unforgiving man?<\/p>\n
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