To my children
What is the best way to live a good life? I often think it is a good life if no one gossips about me and blames me for something.
An author, Robert Holcomb, once said that we all learned what we needed to know when we were 5-6 years old.
Share what you have. A child who has a bag of cookies gladly shares them with the friends and family. Seeing the other person enjoying the cookies, the child will keep feeding the person not worrying his/her bag is getting lighter. A child with many siblings are more used to share. They know they will get as much as they give.
Millionaire Warren Buffett advised President Obama to collect more taxes from the rich. Recently, President Trump announced major tax reduction plan. Many rich people are against it even though they are the one who will benefit from it. Taxation is a way to redistribute the wealth. To pay more taxes is to share with the neighbors. It is a good thing!
Obey the rules and play fairly. Children enjoy the game itself and they care less about the winning. In Southern California, you can easily find kids playing baseball and/or soccer at the parks. Those who yell and shout are usually the adults. Those who argue with and protest the referees and umpiresare usually the parents.
Those with power and money do not need to serve the military. Those who take bribes and cheat with the taxes are reappearing in power. It should not happen in the fair society.
Don’t hit others. If you hurt someone, apologize. Once a son of Korean conglomerate was beaten at the bar. The father hired gangsters, brought the one who beat his son, and beat him up himself while the gangsters were holding him. Sad story, isn’t it?
Unverified gossips are all over the place. These gossips can damage innocent people. If you hurt and/or damage someone, you should apologize and pay for the damages.
Put the things where they belong. If you took it, you put it back. You ask a toddler who still wears diapers to take his dirty diapers to the trach can, he would do so. In kindergarten, kids learn to put the toys back after they play with them.
Those who were in power and political positions should put things in order before they quit. Too many of them have no responsibilities. Once a problem breaks out, they simply quit, disappear. When they fail in business and/or love, they hang themselves. How coward they are!
Don’t take someone else’spossessions. Crime and adulteries come from the greed. When a person decides to take someone else’s home, savings, position, and love, we see a problem.
Since we have forgotten what we learned in kindergarten, the life has become hard. After wasting fifty years of my life, I start to understand little secret of life. Hope it is not too late.