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DR. Richard Teo - thoughts about life, wealth, success and happiness

Please take a moment to read this and share this meaningful story....

Below is the transcript of the talk of Dr. Richard Teo, who is a 40-year-old millionaire and cosmetic surgeon with a stage-4 lung cancer but selflessly came to share with the D1 class his life experience on 19-Jan-2012. He has just passed away few days ago on 18 October 2012:




Hi good morning to all of you. My voice is a bit hoarse, so please bear with me. I thought I'll just introduce myself. My name is Richard, I'm a medical doctor. And I thought I'll just share some thoughts of my life. It's my pleasure to be invited by prof. Hopefully, it can get you thinking about how... as you pursue this.. embarking on your training to become dental surgeons, to think about other things as well.

Since young, I am a typical product of today's society. Relatively successful product that society requires.. From young, I came from a below average family. I was told by the media... and people around me that happiness is about success. And that success is about being wealthy. With this mind-set, I've always be extremely competitive, since I was young.

Not only do I need to go to the top school, I need to have success in all fields. Uniform groups, track, everything. I needed to get trophies, needed to be successful, I needed to have colours award, national colours award, everything. So I was highly competitive since young. I went on to medical school, graduated as a doctor. Some of you may know that within the medical faculty, ophthalmology is one of the most highly sought after specialities. So I went after that as well. I was given a traineeship in ophthalmology, I was also given a research scholarship by NUS to develop lasers to treat the eye.

So in the process, I was given 2 patents, one for the medical devices, and another for the lasers. And you know what, all this academic achievements did not bring me any wealth. So once I completed my bond with MOH, I decided that this is taking too long, the training in eye surgery is just taking too long. And there's lots of money to be made in the private sector. If you're aware, in the last few years, there is this rise in aesthetic medicine. Tons of money to be made there. So I decided, well, enough of staying in institution, it's time to leave. So I quit my training halfway and I went on to set up my aesthetic clinic... in town, together with a day surgery centre.

You know the irony is that people do not make heroes out average GP (general practitioner), family physicians. They don't. They make heroes out of people who are rich and famous. People who are not happy to pay $20 to see a GP, the same person have no qualms paying ten thousand dollars for a liposuction, 15 thousand dollars for a breast augmentation, and so on and so forth. So it's a no brainer isn't? Why do you want to be a gp? Become an aesthetic physician. So instead of healing the sick and ill, I decided that I'll become a glorified beautician. So, business was good, very good. It started off with waiting of one week, then became 3weeks, then one month, then 2 months, then 3 months. I was overwhelmed; there were just too many patients. Vanities are fantastic business. I employed one doctor, the second doctor, the 3rd doctor, the 4th doctor. And within the 1st year, we're already raking in millions. Just the 1st year. But never is enough because I was so obsessed with it. I started to expand into Indonesia to get all the rich Indonesian tai-tais who wouldn't blink an eye to have a procedure done. So life was really good.

So what do I do with the spare cash. How do I spend my weekends? Typically, I'll have car club gatherings. I take out my track car, with spare cash I got myself a track car. We have car club gatherings. We'll go up to Sepang in Malaysia. We'll go for car racing. And it was my life. With other spare cash, what do i do? I get myself a Ferrari. At that time, the 458 wasn't out, it's just a spider convertible, 430. This is a friend of mine, a schoolmate who is a forex trader, a banker. So he got a red one, he was wanting all along a red one, I was getting the silver one.

So what do I do after getting a car? It's time to buy a house, to build our own bungalows. So we go around looking for a land to build our own bungalows, we went around hunting. So how do i live my life? Well, we all think we have to mix around with the rich and famous. This is one of the Miss Universe. So we hang around with the beautiful, rich and famous. This by the way is an internet founder. So this is how we spend our lives, with dining and all the restaurants and Michelin Chefs you know.

So I reach a point in life that I got everything for my life. I was at the pinnacle of my career and all. That's me one year ago in the gym and I thought I was like, having everything under control and reaching the pinnacle.

Well, I was wrong. I didn't have everything under control. About last year March, I started to develop backache in the middle of nowhere. I thought maybe it was all the heavy squats I was doing. So I went to SGH, saw my classmate to do an MRI, to make sure it's not a slipped disc or anything. And that evening, he called me up and said that we found bone marrow replacement in your spine. I said, sorry what does that mean? I mean I know what it means, but I couldn't accept that. I was like “Are you serious?” I was still running around going to the gym you know. But we had more scans the next day, PET scans - positrons emission scans, they found that actually I have stage 4 terminal lung cancer. I was like "Whoa where did that come from?” It has already spread to the brain, the spine, the liver and the adrenals. And you know one moment I was there, totally thinking that I have everything under control, thinking that I've reached the pinnacle of my life. But the next moment, I have just lost it.

This is a CT scan of the lungs itself. If you look at it, every single dot there is a tumour. We call this miliaries tumour. And in fact, I have tens of thousands of them in the lungs. So, I was told that even with chemotherapy, that I'll have about 3-4months at most. Did my life come crushing on, of course it did, who wouldn't? I went into depression, of course, severe depression and I thought I had everything.

See the irony is that all these things that I have, the success, the trophies, my cars, my house and all. I thought that brought me happiness. But i was feeling really down, having severe depression. Having all these thoughts of my possessions, they brought me no joy. The thought of... You know, I can hug my Ferrari to sleep, no... No, it is not going to happen. It brought not a single comfort during my last ten months. And I thought they were, but they were not true happiness. But it wasn't. What really brought me joy in the last ten months was interaction with people, my loved ones, friends, people who genuinely care about me, they laugh and cry with me, and they are able to identify the pain and suffering I was going through. That brought joy to me, happiness. None of the things I have, all the possessions, and I thought those were supposed to bring me happiness. But it didn't, because if it did, I would have felt happy think about it, when I was feeling most down..

You know the classical Chinese New Year that is coming up. In the past, what do I do? Well, I will usually drive my flashy car to do my rounds, visit my relatives, to show it off to my friends. And I thought that was joy, you know. I thought that was really joy. But do you really think that my relatives and friends, whom some of them have difficulty trying to make ends meet, that will truly share the joy with me? Seeing me driving my flashy car and showing off to them? No, no way. They won’t be sharing joy with me. They were having problems trying to make ends meet, taking public transport. In fact i think, what I have done is more like you know, making them envious, jealous of all I have. In fact, sometimes even hatred.

Those are what we call objects of envy. I have them, I show them off to them and I feel it can fill my own pride and ego. That didn't bring any joy to these people, to my friends and relatives, and I thought they were real joy.

Well, let me just share another story with you. You know when I was about your age, I stayed in king Edward VII hall. I had this friend whom I thought was strange. Her name is Jennifer, we're still good friends. And as I walk along the path, she would, if she sees a snail, she would actually pick up the snail and put it along the grass patch. I was like why do you need to do that? Why dirty your hands? It’s just a snail. The truth is she could feel for the snail. The thought of being crushed to death is real to her, but to me it's just a snail. If you can't get out of the pathway of humans then you deserve to be crushed, it’s part of evolution isn't it? What an irony isn't it?

There I was being trained as a doctor, to be compassionate, to be able to empathise; but I couldn't. As a house officer, I graduated from medical school, posted to the oncology department at NUH. And, every day, every other day I witness death in the cancer department. When I see how they suffered, I see all the pain they went through. I see all the morphine they have to press every few minutes just to relieve their pain. I see them struggling with their oxygen breathing their last breath and all. But it was just a job. When I went to clinic every day, to the wards every day, take blood, give the medication but was the patient real to me? They weren't real to me. It was just a job, I do it, I get out of the ward, I can't wait to get home, I do my own stuff.

Was the pain, was the suffering the patients went through real? No. Of course I know all the medical terms to describe how they feel, all the suffering they went through. But in truth, I did not know how they feel, not until I became a patient. It is until now; I truly understand how they feel. And, if you ask me, would I have been a very different doctor if I were to re-live my life now, I can tell you yes I will. Because I truly understand how the patients feel now. And sometimes, you have to learn it the hard way.

Even as you start just your first year, and you embark this journey to become dental surgeons, let me just challenge you on two fronts.

Inevitably, all of you here will start to go into private practice. You will start to accumulate wealth. I can guarantee you. Just doing an implant can bring you thousands of dollars, it's fantastic money. And actually there is nothing wrong with being successful, with being rich or wealthy, absolutely nothing wrong. The only trouble is that a lot of us like myself couldn't handle it.

Why do I say that? Because when I start to accumulate, the more I have, the more I want. The more I wanted, the more obsessed I became. Like what I showed you earlier on, all I can was basically to get more possessions, to reach the pinnacle of what society did to us, of what society wants us to be. I became so obsessed that nothing else really mattered to me. Patients were just a source of income, and I tried to squeeze every single cent out of these patients.

A lot of times we forget, whom we are supposed to be serving. We become so lost that we serve nobody else but just ourselves. That was what happened to me. Whether it is in the medical, the dental fraternity, I can tell you, right now in the private practice, sometimes we just advise patients on treatment that is not indicated. Grey areas. And even though it is not necessary, we kind of advocate it. Even at this point, I know who are my friends and who genuinely cared for me and who are the ones who try to make money out of me by selling me "hope". We kind of lose our moral compass along the way. Because we just want to make money.

Worse, I can tell you, over the last few years, we bad mouth our fellow colleagues, our fellow competitors in the industry. We have no qualms about it. So if we can put them down to give ourselves an advantage, we do it. And that's what happening right now, medical, dental everywhere. My challenge to you is not to lose that moral compass. I learnt it the hard way, I hope you don't ever have to do it.

Secondly, a lot of us will start to get numb to our patients as we start to practise. Whether is it government hospitals, private practice, I can tell you when I was in the hospital, with stacks of patient folders, I can't wait to get rid of those folders as soon as possible; I can't wait to get patients out of my consultation room as soon as possible because there is just so many, and that's a reality. Because it becomes a job, a very routine job. And this is just part of it. Do I truly know how the patient feels back then? No, I don't. The fears and anxiety and all, do I truly understand what they are going through? I don't, not until when this happens to me and I think that is one of the biggest flaws in our system.

We’re being trained to be healthcare providers, professional, and all and yet we don't know how exactly they feel. I'm not asking you to get involved emotionally, I don't think that is professional but do we actually make a real effort to understand their pain and all? Most of us won’t, alright, I can assure you. So don't lose it, my challenge to you is to always be able to put yourself in your patient's shoes.

Because the pain, the anxiety, the fear are very real even though it's not real to you, it's real to them. So don't lose it and you know, right now I'm in the midst of my 5th cycle of my chemotherapy. I can tell you it’s a terrible feeling. Chemotherapy is one of those things that you don't wish even your enemies to go through because it's just suffering, lousy feeling, throwing out, you don't even know if you can retain your meals or not. Terrible feeling! And even with whatever little energy now I have, I try to reach out to other cancer patients because I truly understand what pain and suffering is like. But it's kind of little too late and too little.

You guys have a bright future ahead of you with all the resource and energy, so I’m going to challenge you to go beyond your immediate patients. To understand that there are people out there who are truly in pain, truly in hardship. Don’t get the idea that only poor people suffer. It is not true. A lot of these poor people do not have much in the first place, they are easily contented. for all you know they are happier than you and me but there are out there, people who are suffering mentally, physically, hardship, emotionally, financially and so on and so forth, and they are real. We choose to ignore them or we just don't want to know that they exist.

So do think about it alright, even as you go on to become professionals and dental surgeons and all. That you can reach out to these people who are in need. Whatever you do can make a large difference to them. I'm now at the receiving end so I know how it feels, someone who genuinely care for you, encourage and all. It makes a lot of difference to me. That’s what happens after treatment. I had a treatment recently, but I’ll leave this for another day. A lot of things happened along the way, that's why I am still able to talk to you today.

I'll just end of with this quote here, it's from this book called Tuesdays with Morris, and some of you may have read it. Everyone knows that they are going to die; every one of us knows that. The truth is, none of us believe it because if we did, we will do things differently. When I faced death, when I had to, I stripped myself off all stuff totally and I focused only on what is essential. The irony is that a lot of times, only when we learn how to die then we learn how to live. I know it sounds very morbid for this morning but it's the truth, this is what I’m going through.

Don’t let society tell you how to live. Don’t let the media tell you what you're supposed to do. Those things happened to me. And I led this life thinking that these are going to bring me happiness. I hope that you will think about it and decide for yourself how you want to live your own life. Not according to what other people tell you to do, and you have to decide whether you want to serve yourself, whether you are going to make a difference in somebody else's life. Because true happiness doesn't come from serving yourself. I thought it was but it didn't turn out that way.

Also most importantly, I think true joy comes from knowing God. Not knowing about God – I mean, you can read the bible and know about God – but knowing God personally; getting a relationship with God. I think that’s the most important. That’s what I’ve learnt.

So if I were to sum it up, I’d say that the earlier we sort out the priorities in our lives, the better it is. Don’t be like me – I had no other way. I had to learn it through the hard way. I had to come back to God to thank Him for this opportunity because I’ve had 3 major accidents in my past – car accidents. You know, these sports car accidents – I was always speeding , but somehow I always came out alive, even with the car almost being overturned. And I wouldn’t have had a chance. Who knows, I don’t know where else I’d be going to! Even though I was baptised it was just a show, but the fact that this has happened, it gave me a chance to come back to God.

Few things I’d learnt though:
1. Trust in the Lord your God with all your heart – this is so important.
2. Is to love and serve others, not just ourselves.

There is nothing wrong with being rich or wealthy. I think it’s absolutely alright, cos God has blessed. So many people are blessed with good wealth, but the trouble is I think a lot of us can’t handle it. The more we have, the more we want. I’ve gone through it, the deeper the hole we dig, the more we get sucked into it, so much so that we worship wealth and lose focus. Instead of worshipping God, we worship wealth. It’s just a human instinct. It’s just so difficult to get out of it.

We are all professionals, and when we go into private practise, we start to build up our wealth – inevitably. So my thought are, when you start to build up wealth and when the opportunity comes, do remember that all these things don’t belong to us. We don’t really own it nor have rights to this wealth. It’s actually God’s gift to us. Remember that it’s more important to further His Kingdom rather than to further ourselves.

Anyway I think that I’ve gone through it, and I know that wealth without God is empty. It is more important that you fill up the wealth, as you build it up subsequently, as professionals and all, you need to fill it up with the wealth of God.



Here's the link to the video of this :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pbelDGpWvs





Got that from another forum, sharing to everyone. :)

Comments

  • jazzmine22 wrote: »
    Please take a moment to read this and share this meaningful story....

    Below is the transcript of the talk of Dr. Richard Teo, who is a 40-year-old millionaire and cosmetic surgeon with a stage-4 lung cancer but selflessly came to share with the D1 class his life experience on 19-Jan-2012. He has just passed away few days ago on 18 October 2012:



    Maganda ang Storya: Nagpapatunay lang na ang isang tao gaano man ang pagkalasing sa kanyang tagumpay, sa huli maaalala pa rin niya na may Diyos. Pwedeng sabihin ng iba, dahil sa kawalan na niya ng pag-asa, Diyos na lang ang malalapitan niya. Subalit ang katotohanan, May Diyos.

    Ang isa pang aral na nakita ko sa Storya, tunay na hindi natin mahahatulan ang isang tao, ayon lamang sa nakikita natin sa Kaniyang mga ginagawa. Baka sa paghatol natin tulad ni Dr. Richard sa gitna ng kanyang tagumpay, tunay na masasabi ng isang tao na wala na siyang Dinidiyos kundi ang kanyang tagumpay at ari-arian..SA huli, ipinakita niya ang Hiwaga ng Diyos..Salamat
  • "when we learn how to die then we learn how to live"

    Yan lang talaga na-appreciate ko dyan. For the rest, eto masasabi ko:

    - Paano mo ip-pursue ang 'happiness' kung wala kang means para mabuhay ng maayos? Kung 'happiness' mo ay mag-paint (art), pero kung gagawin mo yun at wala ka naman income (walang bumibili ng works mo for example), unless masokista ka, sige nga pano ka magiging masaya?
    Ang tutoo nyan, may presyo din ang 'happiness' na yan.

    - "Balik loob sa diyos". Natural lang sa tao yan, lalu na pag malapit nang mamatay. Dahil diyos na lang ang pag-asa mo.
    Ang tutoo nyan, lahat tayo gusto na magtuloy-tuloy lang at wag matapos ang buhay natin, kaya pag dating sa ganyang sitwasyon, kabig tayo sa diyos dahil sya lang ang alam nating 'makakapagigay' ng 'buhay na walang hanggan'
  • Fenix wrote: »
    "we learn how to die then we learn how to live"

    Yan lang talaga na-appreciate ko dyan. For the rest, eto masasabi ko:

    - Paano mo ip-pursue ang 'happiness' kung wala kang means para mabuhay ng maayos? Kung 'happiness' mo ay mag-paint (art), pero kung gagawin mo yun at wala ka naman income (walang bumibili ng works mo for example), unless masokista ka, sige nga pano ka magiging masaya?
    Ang tutoo nyan, may presyo din ang 'happiness' na yan.

    - "Balik loob sa diyos". Natural lang sa tao yan, lalu na pag malapit nang mamatay. Dahil diyos na lang ang pag-asa mo.
    Ang tutoo nyan, lahat tayo gusto na magtuloy-tuloy lang at wag matapos ang buhay natin, kaya pag dating sa ganyang sitwasyon, kabig tayo sa diyos dahil sya lang ang alam nating 'makakapagigay' ng 'buhay na walang hanggan'

    Tama ka kaibigan, kailangan ng tao ang salapi. kaya binigyan tayo ng Diyos ng talino at damdamin mula ng tayo ay isilang upang magamit sa ikauunlad ng ating mga sarili at buhay sa lupa. Hindi masama ang yumaman, mabuti nga iyon. Ang mga propeta ng Diyos na sina Abraham, Solomon, David at si Jose ng Arimathea ay mayayamang naglilingkod sa Diyos.

    Ang nakita ko sa storya, sa gitna ng kanyang tagumpay, inakala niyang nasa kanya na lahat. Walang Diyos sa Kanya. Lahat ng kanyang tinatamasa ay mula sa kanyang pagsisikap. Kaya ganun na lang ang kanyang pagkagulat ng malaman niyang may sakit siya.

    Katulad din ng ilang Hari sa Bible, inakala nilang lahat ay sa kanila na, nagmataas, nagpagawa ng Diyos diyosan, inakala pa ng iba na sila ang Diyos. nang ibagsak sila, doon lamang sila nagising sa katotohanan, may Diyos pala na may karapatang humusga.:)
  • Frank_Macky
    Frank_Macky Heretic / Infidel
    Everything was genuinely inspiring... until the point when Teo had to reach for "God". The concept is unnecessary and a crutch.

    It's fine when discussing "God" in this manner, but the real problem here is that this idea of "God" is also widely abused by other people in order to bully and to get others to submit to their own values, to brainwash children, and finally, "God" is widely abused as a cover with which people pretending to be pious hide their sins behind.

    I do consider "God" a dirty three-letter word.
  • Everything was genuinely inspiring... until the point when Teo had to reach for "God". The concept is unnecessary and a crutch.

    It's fine when discussing "God" in this manner, but the real problem here is that this idea of "God" is also widely abused by other people in order to bully and to get others to submit to their own values, to brainwash children, and finally, "God" is widely abused as a cover with which people pretending to be pious hide their sins behind.

    I do consider "God" a dirty three-letter word.

    Karapatan mo iyan kasamang Macky, iginagalang ko ang paniniwala mo tungkol sa Diyos..Letter lang naman iyan. :)
  • Fenix, hindi naman niya sinabi na masama ang maging successful and rich, sabi lang niya, huwag magpadala sa tagumpay, kasi gaya daw niya, hindi niya na handle mabuti ang pagiging rich and successful.

    Sa akin naman, yun ang pinaka lesson sa sinabi niya, na kailangan ba nasa deathbed ka na bago ka bumalik sa Diyos at kailangan may taning ang buhay mo para kilalanin ang Diyos?

    Yun ang message na nakuha ko sa mga sinabi niya.
  • "when we learn how to die then we learn how to live"


    I agree, ang ganda diba? Kung alam mo ng mamamatay ka na today, may difference ba sa lahat ng gagawin mo?
  • iskrotum
    iskrotum Ako si King Kong!
    tarugo777 wrote: »
    Karapatan mo iyan kasamang Macky, iginagalang ko ang paniniwala mo tungkol sa Diyos..Letter lang naman iyan. :)
    Galangin mo man o hindi, eh ano?

    Hindi ba niya alam ang mga karapatan niya?
  • mani94
    mani94 ex-Catholic
    good read, pero sana inayos yung post, hindi lang wall of text.


    Dr. Richard Teo was a 40-year-old millionaire and cosmetic surgeon with a stage-4 lung cancer. He’s a very competitive person since young and he achieved the pinnacle of his life that most of us can only dream to achieve.


    Towards the end of his life, he realized what really is essential in his life and hence his message is for people to not make the same mistake as him.
    Please take a second to hear the message of a very successful person on his views of happiness, life moral and regrets.

    His full story: Dr. Richard Teo - Thoughts About Life, Wealth, Success and Happiness

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    Everyone knows that they are going to die; every one of us knows that. The truth is, none of us believe it because if we did, we will do things differently. When I faced death, when I had to, I stripped myself off all stuff totally and I focused only on what is essential.
    - Dr Richard Teo


    His full story: Dr. Richard Teo - Thoughts About Life, Wealth, Success and Happiness
  • ^ Thank you for that.

    I posted that way, para kahit nasa mobile lang, mabasa nila yung message :)
  • iskrotum wrote: »
    Galangin mo man o hindi, eh ano?

    Hindi ba niya alam ang mga karapatan niya?

    Kasamang iskrotum, ginagalang ko siya bilang isang matalinong tao. binabasa ko halos lahat ng kanyang mga sinasabi. Dahil naniniwala ako sa talino niya. alam ko rin bawat tao alam ang kanyang karapatan. ginamitan ko ng paggalang dahil magkaiba kami sa paniniwala..Ako bagamat walang kinasasapiang relihiyon ng tao, naniniwala sa Diyos.
  • mani94
    mani94 ex-Catholic
    jazzmine22 wrote: »
    ^ Thank you for that.

    I posted that way, para kahit nasa mobile lang, mabasa nila yung message :)

    Thank you very much for posting this one here :) His life is a good reminder for all of us.


    Everyone knows that they are going to die; every one of us knows that. The truth is, none of us believe it because if we did, we will do things differently. When I faced death, when I had to, I stripped myself off all stuff totally and I focused only on what is essential.
    - Dr Richard Teo
  • Frank_Macky
    Frank_Macky Heretic / Infidel
    Everyone knows that they are going to die; every one of us knows that. The truth is, none of us believe it because if we did, we will do things differently. When I faced death, when I had to, I stripped myself off all stuff totally and I focused only on what is essential.
    Sure. However, if you are young and healthy, what's more important to you will be to "live life to the fullest" and not the stuff that Teo suddenly found important when he was facing death.

    It's not that what Teo said was wrong, it is just that your priorities change depending on the state you are in, and that's just how we humans are. What Teo wrote, no matter how eloquent it might have been, is not really going to change that.



    When you're stuck in the middle of the desert, a glass of water is naturally the most important and delicious thing in the world.

    When you're sitting in the middle of a posh restaurant, naturally, you will be hankering after something else and it would be stupid to be singing praises about how good a plain glass of water tastes.
  • Mani94, thank you din for reading, pinamahagi ko na nga to sa lahat ng pwede kong pag postan, and then boom, I received something positive, a miracle.


    My Dad kasi 19% na lang ang kidney function niya, and when we found out about his condition, nalungkot kami, depression kicked in, Ngayon pa lang talaga kami nabubuhay as a family, long story, and ayaw naman namin ma dialysis siya, kung kidney transplant naman 8 years ang waiting time. Then, just last month, hinahanda na siya for dialysis, gagawan na nga siya ng fistula, ipinila na siya sa transplant list.

    Then, yesterday, my Dad told me the goodnews. Tumaas ang kidney function niya. Medically speaking, that's not possible, hindi nag re-repair ang kidney cells, you can slow down the deterioration, but not repair.

    We all know that it is a miracle from God.

    Sharing this to everyone. :)
  • Sure. However, if you are young and healthy, what's more important to you will be to "live life to the fullest" and not the stuff that Teo suddenly found important when he was facing death.

    It's not that what Teo said was wrong, it is just that your priorities change depending on the state you are in, and that's just how we humans are. What Teo wrote, no matter how eloquent it might have been, is not really going to change that.



    When you're stuck in the middle of the desert, a glass of water is naturally the most important and delicious thing in the world.

    When you're sitting in the middle of a posh restaurant, naturally, you will be hankering after something else and it would be stupid to be singing praises about how good a plain glass of water tastes.


    Hi Frank, sa akin naman, yung mga sinabi mo, hindi naman talaga kontra sa mga sinabi ni Dr. Teo, sinasabi din naman ni Dr. Teo na "live life to the fullest", it's just that mag focus ka sa essential, sa mga importanteng bagay sa buhay mo, because Life is short.

    Siguro tayong lahat, magkaka talo talo na lang kung ano ba ang importante sa atin, para masabi natin na nabuhay tayo to the fullest, kung ano ba mahalaga sa atin? Pamilya? Pera? Luxury? God? Pwedeng lahat sila ay importante sayo, pero kung gaanong importansiya ang ibibigay mo, nasa sa atin na yun. :)


    Yung sinasabi mong "priorities change", kung importante sayo ang pamilya mo, kailangan ba maging priority mo lang sila kapag nasa deathbed ka na? Hindi ba pwedeng bigyan mo sila ng importansiya everyday?

    Yun kasi ang dating sa akin nung mga sinabi ni Dr. Teo, life is short, know your priorities, know the things that are really essential, na dapat mamatay tayong walang regrets, na sana ginawa natin yun, na sana mas nagmahal tayo.


    When you're stuck in the middle of the desert, a glass of water is naturally the most important and delicious thing in the world.

    When you're sitting in the middle of a posh restaurant, naturally, you will be hankering after something else and it would be stupid to be singing praises about how good a plain glass of water tastes.


    I don't know with you Bro, pero kahit saan ako kumain, sa bahay, sa fastfood o sa fancy restaurants, at the end of the meal, pinaka masarap pa din sa akin ang ice cold water.

    :)
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    jazzmine22 wrote: »
    I don't know with you Bro, pero kahit saan ako kumain, sa bahay, sa fastfood o sa fancy restaurants, at the end of the meal, pinaka masarap pa din sa akin ang ice cold water.

    :)

    Just like he said, your priorities change depending on the state you're in. At the end of the meal being full already, you would've already changed state or context, (wanting water rather than any more food) just as the Doctor changed from being in a healthy state to a dying one.

    So the moral of the story goes:

    {1611 KJV Matthew 18:12-13} How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray? And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that [sheep,] than of the ninety and nine which went not astray.

    It's simply because the lost sheep has been into (experienced) more 'states' than ordinary sheep-sheep have. *ʞıɥ*
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