Wisdom-to-share

Martin Luther said, “You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say” When I read this quotation I cannot agree more. One day I had a chance to hear a story about some unhappy marriages. Most of them started their stories from a very small thing in their life. It was so true when my friends said, “We like to collect small problem everyday and at the end we do have a big problem” We could imagine if it has been years … and years. It becomes a huge problem. And no one could handle it anymore. Once I asked, “Have you ever say to your spouse about what you want … what you wish to have in life… what is your value of life?” Most of the answers were, “It just wasted our time. Our husband would not listen and they didn’t care. Silent is golden. We were tired to argue … and argue and nothing changed” I used to be like that. At certain stage of my marriage life, I decided I didn’t care anymore. I didn’t want to talk or to discuss ab

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana. Bill Gates This is a story I always share with my students. I called it banana episode. It was a long journey from Houston – Texas to Orlando- Florida; we wanted to visit one of my favorite places on earth Disney World. We always enjoyed our journey in my big car from one city to another city. Each trip always had  at least one story to share. My husband and my daughters started their conversation with random topic. At one moment to topic was about English language. They talked that I mispronounced some words but I was so sure about the pronunciation. They laughed about my mistakes. Definitely I couldn’t compare their English with mine. My husband studied in America for his bachelor and master degree. My daughters had the opportunity to study in junior high school in America. If I thought that was a humiliation, I might not want to speak English anymore. Since I thought I was fine with my stupidity and

“Auntie, please tell me a story before I sleep” that little boy asked me many years ago. I remembered that at the end of the story he would ask me again, “One more story please” Today he sat in front of me with his family during lunchtime and he told his wife, “Look auntie has more gray hairs now” Sigh … time flies so fast. I just love stories. Especially 1001 nights or The Arabian nights, I grown up with stories and I learnt more moral and attitudes from them. Back to my childhood, my mother told stories every night. At the age I could read, my father bought me stories books.  Life was full of stories. Now I see each of our life has it own story. My father said to me, “Listen and look all people’s stories around you, you will learn more from them and you don’t have to pass the same path if you know they made mistake in their life… Their stories will save your life. They help you to make a short cut to find your happiness” It was a simple and true lesson i