- a group of rabbits were travelling through the woods when two of them - Buns and Bunny - fell into a ditch. Both rabbits tried as hard as they could to jump out of the ditch. But the ditch was too deep for them to escape.
- Buns, being cynical and pessimistic, was sure that the other rabbits would not help. But Bunny, a generally amicable and optimistic rabbit, was sure that they would.
- Then all the other rabbits gathered around the ditch and began to shout and cheer the two rabbits on, as they tried as hard as they could to escape from their predicament.
- Buns became discouraged and demoralised when he heard the shouting and cheering of the other rabbits, for he thought they were booing and jeering him. He gave up trying after a short while and never escaped from the ditch.
- But Bunny became more emboldened when he heard the shouting and cheering, and he was sure that his friends were encouraging him on. Within a few minutes, he was out of the ditch - with a new experience.
Story 2
- Two mice fell into a vessel of cream. Overwhelmed by the difficult tsk of getting out, the first mouse gave up and drowned. But the other mouse was determined to fight on, and started thrashing and churning as fast as it could. The milk soon turned into butter, and it climbed out.
- Two mice, one situation, two different outcomes.
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Yes, it's the points of view, which perspective we take, what we want to see, what we want to hear and that exactly shapes what appears before us. Just like the old saying, "See the Glass Half Empty? See the Glass Half Filled". Being Optimistic? Being Pessimistic? We have a choice :D
Recall another story, that I'll not forget, there's this man who's very positive. To cut the story short... One day, he was shot and when he was on the operation table, he told the surgeons to operate him as a living person, rather than a dead man. It's the thinking!
Very often, we were rather upset when things don't quite go well... even little things... missed the bus, missed the train, the door of the lift just shut when we were almost there... ok, who knows? Things simply don't quite take a better course though we tried quicken our pace... nevermind... as far as we try... who knows, we might have missed what we've just missed, we never know, the next could be better? ;p
Sometimes, we wonder why some people can be so picky over things... picky on us? (Rabbit BUNS will think like this)... or it's a means of driving us to do better, but probably in a less 'nicer' manner?
One of my good buddies wonder that how come sometimes our bosses may not seem to be bothered with what we are doing... there are two ways to look at it... one, yes, they don't bother... there's where one worries of the amount of support get from 'up-there'... on the other hand, it could be one that they're confident that things will be at the right place and therefore channel their energies to somewhere else that needed them more urgently? Of course, these 2 ways of looking at it will generate 2 very diffferent outcomes lah...
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