This was written by Bo Sanchez and was forwarded to me by one of our former CAS classmates, Janis Cudilla. Thanks for sharing this Janis. :)
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Let me tell you a story. Three construction workers were on top of their half-finished skyscraper. Rrrrring!" the lunch bell sounded, and the three men sat on a steel beam jutting out of the 56th floor with their lunch boxes in hand.
The first guy opens his and groans in exasperation, "Tuyo!" There is not a day that I don't get tuyo for lunch!" He turns to his buddies and announces, "Mark my words. If I still get tuyo tomorrow, I'm going to throw myself from this building."
The second guy opens his lunch box and moans, "Tinapa". Everyday, I get tinapa!" He looks at his friends and declares, "Believe me when I say this. If I get tinapa tomorrow, I'm going to jump and kill myself."
The third guy opens his lunch box and it was his turn to despair. "Galunggong". All I get is galunggong!" I'm telling you, if I still get galunggong tomorrow, I'm going to jump from this building and die."
The next day, the lunch bell rings and all three men are again seated on the 56th floor. The first guy opens his lunch box and starts crying, "Tuyoooooo!" And so he jumps and crashes on the ground.
The second guy opens his lunch box and wails loudly, "Tinapaaaa!" And he also hurls himself off the building and dies.
The third guy opens his lunch box and screams, "Galunggonggggg!" And so he too jumps off the building and splatters on the ground.
Days later, during the funeral of the three men, their three wives embrace and weep together. The first wife cries out, "I didn't know my husband didn't like tuyo anymore! Why didn't he tell me? If only he told me, I would have prepared something else."
The second wife echoes her statement, "Yes! If only I knew, I would have cooked something else, not tinapa!"
The third wife, between sobs, speaks up, "I don't know why my husband killed himself." The two wives look at her curiously.
"Why?"
She went on, "Because ... my husband prepares his own lunch everyday..."
I love this crazy story because it presents a very important truth: all of us prepare our own lunch. If we don't like our jobs, if we don't like the state of our relationships, if! we don't like what's happening to our spiritual lives - we have no one to blame but ourselves. Because God has given us free will. He has given us the power to prepare our own lunch.
If you want to earn more and be free from debt, if you're sick and tired of your bad habits, if we want to put more joy in our marriages, if we want to grow in our relationship with God - then go back to your kitchen and prepare yourself another dish. Because you design your own future. You create your own destiny. Ask yourself what kind of future do you want to have? What kind of life? What kind of eternity?
You decide.
i've Read this story before and yeah it struck me too. Often we blame others for what has happened to us...But in reality, we create our own fate.
Great story, I've never read it before and I totally agree with your thoughts about it.
The decision to be happy is yours.
As a kid, my teacher in a certain class once said that you can't blame others if you made the wrong decisions. O_o
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this isn't my favorite post.. but yeah i agree with the story... you do create your own destiny and you decide for yourself how you would want your life to be...
this post is not a very interesting story for me, it's a sad one and it doesn't go with this blog.
@ leah
why doesn't the article interest you? this article gave me the shivers.
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I have a question: how can man's destiny coexist with God's plan? If we have faith in what God has in store for us, then that would mean that we believe in fate. Fate is leaving our future with the "gods" or supernatural forces. Destiny, on the other hand, involves making choices in order to become what we want in the future. So how can we choose to be what we want to be when God may have different plans for us? This has been bothering me for over a year now... hrmmm...
Because God made our destiny?
God gave us purpose but He never said go be a nurse. We have free will remember?
some decisions have to be based on circumstances and in thought of others.
Funny joke!
But on a serious note, it's true. We cannot blame others for how awful we feel. It's all up to use. We make or break our own destiny. Thanks for sharing!
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