Acquire Wisdom and Live With Passion

Nov 8th, 2007

Please help me to pass this http: / / acquirewisdom. blogspot. com/ 2007/ 11/ what-goes-around-com es-around. html on so that this chain of love will not end. Thank you. Blessings Sam Chan

Got his message from my “Mybloglog” account and I immediately read thru it.
Then I remember one incident in my life that happened when I was in my first Year high school.

I am studying in Manila High School located in Intramuros Manila. I live in Ongpin Street and walking from home to school would take me almost 25 to 30 minutes. If I would take a ride, it would only take about 5 minutes. Heavy traffic is never heard during that time. The fare is P0.05 or P0.10 cents. Yes Sir, life seems to be very simple then and cheap too. I do believe the minimum wage then is P4.00 and the dollar exchange is $1 – P4.00. If you have a companion and you would like to save on fare, let him/her set on your lap and pay for only one passenger. Not anymore in this time of ours.

I do believe we have an exam during that day for I am in a hurry and I took a jeep (I usually walk in going to school while counting the trees in Mehan Garden). Before reaching City Hall of Manila and where I should disembark, I can’t find my money. I desperately search in my entire pants pocket including my polo shirt’s pocket. I began to perspire and a lot of thought keep running in my mind when it downed on me that I forgot to get it.

“What will I say to the Driver?” “Will he believe me?” I am really shy, afraid and trembling now when an old lady seated beside open her purse and gave me the fare amount. She sense my problem and came to my rescue. I felt relieve and after giving to the driver my fare I ask the old lady how could I repay her. She just winks on me and taps my shoulder and told me “Just do the same thing to anybody and you consider yourself paid.”

I think I already paid her by this time and will continue paying as long as I live. My favorite quotation is “I shall pass this way but once, any good things that I can say and do, to any human being, let me do it now, for I shall never pass this way again.”

Being a branch Manager for the past 18 years I have lost count how many Store Supervisor’s I have trained, developed and were promoted to become Managers. When they ask me how they can repay me, I tell them “Just teach your incoming Supervisors all the things that I taught you and you are considered paid.”

Thanks Sam Chan and keep on writing.

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4 Comments on “Acquire Wisdom and Live With Passion”

#1 Sam Chan (Who am I?)
on Nov 8th, 2007 at 9:46 pm
Hi Ramon,

I am glad this story had rekindled your personal experience. It is great to see more people do like wise.

Let’s do unto others what we want others do unto us.

Blessings to you, Ramon
Let’s Acquire Wisdom and Live with Passion
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#2 manilenya (Who am I?)
on Nov 9th, 2007 at 12:16 pm
naalala ko yung kwento ng nanay ko noon, mula sa pagtitinda ng isda sa isang subdivision sa San Juan nakatulog daw sya sa loog ng jeep tapos nakalaylay yung ulo nya sa may bintana (nasa dulo daw sya) habang nakapatong yung mga timba sa lap nya. maya maya daw nagising sya na me babaing nagsusuksok ng limampisong buo sa kamay nya (minimum wage din daw yun noon) sabi daw ng ale “Ne, Ne eto tabi mo to sayo.”

She was in her early 20’s with two kids and her husband was a helper/fisherman in a small fishing boat in Tondo. She tried to decline the lady’s gift but then she realized that the money was a big help for US that time.

What’s good now is my mother is doing the same thing to some people who are in need.

And I witnessed one time, I accompanied her in her regular ovary check-up, it was raining and outside the clinic while waiting for a ride there we saw a man who’s fixing his pedicab. He was all wet and when I look in his sidecar I saw some plastics of garbage, I assume that he’s a garbage collector.

My mother taps the man’s shoulder and gave him 100 pesos. The man looked at my mother’s eyes with a questioning stare.

Sabi ng nanay ko “Sige na tanggapin mo na pangkain mo.”

I thought the man will not accept the money, but he took it.

It was just a small amount pero nakuha ng nanay ko ang hindi matatawarang respeto ko sa kanya.
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#3 Trew Life Advice (Who am I?)
on Nov 10th, 2007 at 3:40 am
Sam Chan,

You are so right, and I couldn’t have said it better.

Manilenya,

What a nice gesture.

- Ask Trew Life
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#4 admin (Who am I?)
on Nov 10th, 2007 at 5:08 am
To Sam Chan -Again thanks, Ive learned a lot from you.
To manilenya - Thanks for sharing your story. If I do have the time, I’ll write about my mother.
To Trew Life Advice- Sir thanks for your time. I am really humbled by your visit.
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