Sunday, December 10, 2006

Lesson learnt from Heart vs Head

Remember my previous posting regarding the "Tough Decision"? Well at the end I followed my heart, I emphatized my brother and let the lady continues to work with us. My brother had make a damn serious promise that thing is over between them and everything is back to normal. I gave him the benefit of doubt, I took the risk in believing him. Well, well...what I realized today is that he is a person who does not care about his promises, and he will lie just to get what he wants. I was deeply dissapointed by the way he thinks and behaves. I don't know how I can help him. How can I teach him that he needs to be responsible? Responsible many times means: to give up what we like (to sacrify) and to do what we should do, to do what we have promised, and to think for others (are we hurting others?). I can only pray that God be with him and that He will always guide him. I think that's best thing I can do for now, and let nature takes it's own course.

Though the events turned out to be negative, I did not feel any regret for following my heart. Why? Because I think when I made the decision to follow my heart, which is to show emphaty and to give people chance, I've at the same time been fully aware of the worst-case should things don't turn out positively. So the key point that I've learnt here is that we should always be ready (mentally or physically) to take the worst-case. This sounded simple, but many people are not actually ready for such worst-case scenario, and when the worst-case does really happen they will start to feel regret with their decision and they will start the blaming-game.

Think worst-case and be responsible with our own decision.

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