The Chain Mail That Touched Me :D

Today going to share with you a chain mail story sent by Renyang, I don’t have the intention to spread this as a chain letter but just to share a touching story.

I will remove the part where you need to send to your friends and love ones part.

Here goes,

UNEMPLOYED GRADUATE:

An unemployed graduate woke up one morning and checked his pocket. All he had left was $10. He decided to use it to buy food and then wait for death as he was too proud to go begging.

He was frustrated as he could find no job, and nobody was ready to help him.

He bought food and as he sat down to eat, an old man and two little children came along and asked him to help them with food as they had not eaten for almost a week.

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He looked at them. They were so lean that he could see their bones coming out. Their eyes had gone into the socket. With the last bit of compa ssion he had, he gave them the food.

The old man and children prayed that God would bless and prosper him and then gave him a very old coin. The young graduate said to them ‘you need the prayer more than I do’.

With no money, no job, no food, the young graduate went under the bridge to rest and wait for death. As he was about to sleep, he saw an old newspaper on the ground.

He picked it up, and suddenly he saw an advertisement for people with old coins to come to a certain address.

He decided to go there with the old coin the old man gave him. On getting to the place, he gave the proprietor the coin. The proprietor screamed, brought out a big book and showed the young graduate a photograph.

This same old coin was worth 3 million dollars. The young graduate was overjoyed as the proprietor gave him a bank draft for 3 million dollars within an hour. He collected the Bank Draft and went in search of the old man and little children..

By the time he got to where he left them eating, they had gone. He asked the owner of the canteen if he knew them.. He said no but they left a note for you. He quickly opened the note thinking it would lead him to find them.

This is what the note said: ‘You gave us your all and we have rewarded you back with the coin,’ signed God the Father, The Son and The Holy Ghost. 1 Kings 17:10-16; Matthew 11:28-30

PRAYER:
Here is your financial blessing! It’s a simple prayer, you’ve got 30 seconds. If you need a financial blessing,continue reading this e-mail.

Heavenly Father, most Gracious and Loving God, I pray to you that you abundantly Bless my family and me. I know that you recognize, that a family is more than just a mother, father, sister, brother husband and wife, but all Who believe a nd trust in you.

Father, I send up a prayer request for financial blessing for not only the person who sent this to me, but for Me and all that I have forwarded this message on to. And that the power of joined prayer by those who believe and trust in you is more powerful than anything.

I thank you in advance for your blessings.

Father God, deliver the person reading this right now and those who will read it in the near future from debt and debt burdens. Release your Godly wisdom that I may be a good steward over all that You have given me Father, for I know how wonderful and mighty You are and how if we just obey You and walk in Your word and have the faith of a Mustard seed that You will pour out blessings.

I thank You now Lord for the recent blessings I have received and for the blessings yet to come Because I know You are not done with me yet.
In Jesus name, I pray,

Amen

p.s. I’m not a Christian but the story is very very touching for me as I had once been unemployed with only $12 on me and I did strike lottery 1st prize with the number 2178 with that last bit of money.

My thoughts about money…hmmm

There was saying life isn’t about money but you cannot live without paying the bills hence cannot go without $_$.

We grow up educated from day one to study hard and one day get a stable job and earn $$ to pay for doodads such as a nice house, a family car and if possible all the techno gadget ever invented (LOL).

However, by studying the origin of money and how money is being created out of thin air by the banks by printing pieces of paper by the government as bonds and selling the bonds as an assets, subsequently the money acquired are loaned out to individuals and interest are collected on top of the money returned hence creating new money out of thin air.

Knowing that money are created out of nothing that means everyone too can create money…out of thin air! Of course it’s up to us how to do it legally…

Some options are laid out in the table…here’s some

  • Work our asses off and get paid a monthly salary
  • Become a entrepreneur and work our assess off too…and with some risk & returns hopefully get profitable by 6 months into the business
  • Invest some savings into high risk high return investments and with some good luck get high returns but easily turn south
  • Own multiple businesses that already working fine but cost lot’s to invest to get significant returns
  • Rent out properties that you own and reap the rewards after the house get fully paid but high risk of volatile property market
  • Do all of the above….

Well, time are bad and everything have risk and could potentially turn sour in moment’s notice. For example my dad actually loss some money in the stocks as he was misled by other “retirees” to buy risky investment “contra” without knowing English and the risk involved and got burned when the stock got halted suddenly, luckily the stock was not suspended otherwise my house will be sold by now to repay the heavy debts incurred.

My dad is one fine examples of not knowing the proper knowledge before following the sheep in front straight into the slaughter house bringing the whole family down with him…

Well, what is life? Life is about enjoyment, freedom and healthy to enjoy life daily…if you are super rich but very very stressed & unhealthy to enjoy the life ….there are no point…imagine a millionaire that have not real friends or love and got very sick from all the unhealthy food & bad liver from entertaining clients using expensive alcohol.

Enlightenment is to live life happy even without much money and be contented with “sufficient” money to survive but human always have many sins of Pride, Vanity, Gluttony, Greed, Laziness, Jealousy and many more to push us away from the path of happiness.

To get money we have to be generous with money, to give before we can take…not be stingy and never complain about money. Don’t compare yourself with others and stay away from people who does, peer pressure to get more and more expensive doodads using future money like credit cards are totally idiots that enslave themselves with debts.

Good debts are debts that can potentially used to earn more money with at least above 60% chances of success and some effort must be taken to study & plan carefully each step into the debts usage & investment into the business.

Love & be love, spend within your means and if your love ones don’t understand that theory…he/she don’t really sincerely love you but love your “ability” to spend. Real friends don’t ask for treats, they offer to treat first instead.

Honesty is the best policy when dealing with money, never lie. Once trust are broken in any way it’s very hard to mend back, even family members can be broken up when trust are broken on money issues. “Once Bitten, Twice Shy”

Be aware of all information regards to the investments you going into and analyze all possible scenarios from the best case to the worst case and decide how much risk involved and potential returns before making a decision.

Don’t put all eggs into one single basket, it’s like using all your savings buying a single lottery ticket that can potentially goes horribly wrong.

Diversify your money into many ways and when possible save as much money as possible to reinvest into something that can make money.

Motivation is required to take actions and such motivations can be boosted by goals or desire achievement set for the future.

Always take action first and correct the mistakes later, the worst you can get is not even trying.

I heard a phrase by some successful person “The secret of success is never fear of making mistakes, in fact make as much mistakes as possible…it’s better then making no mistakes by not trying out new ways to be successful”

All above are from books & audio tapes and I thought I will write them them down for reference for myself and maybe someone may find it useful.

Should I change my appearance?

I had been “feedback” left right center just now in the lunch hehe about my appearance, dressing & state of “body” condition.

For a long time I had not bother about my personal appearance and enjoy the freedom to where what I feel is comfortable & cooling instead of dressing up for good impression.

I AM also a night own hence my deep eye baggage big enough to be called a panda of Singapore, there are several concerning colleagues & boss trying to give me suggestions on how to “improve” on my appearance just in case I go for a date or something.

Yes, I did not dress up for dates as I don’t have a good fitting shirt or pants to dress up on…and to add salt to that, I had gained weight since my last photograph had been taken.

It’s like all total disaster for my appearance…hmmm

My feeling is well…probably I do need to change my lifestyle & image but that takes time & $$$…

If you have any idea on how to improve on appearance…feel free to add in the comments below! :D