When I come across a good essay in reading newspapers, I am often inclined to cut and keep it. But just as I am about to do so I find the article on the opposite side is as much interesting. It may be a discussion of the way to keep in good health, or advice about how to behave and conduct oneself in society. If I cut the front essay, the opposite one is bound to suffer damage, leaving out half of it or keeping the text without the subject. As a result, the scissors would stay before they start, or halfway done when I find out the regretful consequence that inevitably causes my repentance.
Sometimes two things are to be done at the same time, both deserving your attention. You can only take up one of them guild wars gold, the other has to wait or be given up. But you know the future is unpredictable-the changed situation may not allow you to do what is left behind. Thus you are caught in a fix and feel sad？ How come that nice opportunities and brilliant ideas should gather around all at once？ It may happen that guild wars gold your life changes dramatically on your preference of one alternative to the other.
In fact that is what life is like: we are often faced with the two opposite aspects of a thing which are both desirable like newspaper cutting. It often occurs that our attention is drawn to one thing only after we are engaged in another. The former may be more important than the latter and guild wars gold give rise to a divided mind. I still remember a philosopher's remarks, "When one door shuts, another opens in life." So a casual or passive choice may not be a bad one.
Whatever we do in our lifetime, wherever life's storm tosses us, there must be something we can achieve, some shore we can land, that opens up new vistas to us. Don't forget God always keeps an alternative door open for every one. While the front door is closed, there must be another open for you.
A young man, a student in one of our universities, was one day taking a walk with a professor, who was commonly called the students' friend, for his kindness to those who waited on his instructions.
As they went along, they saw lying in the path a pair of old shoes, which they supposed to belong to a poor man who was employed in a field close by, and who had nearly finished his day's work.
The student turned to the professor, saying, "Let us play the man a trick: we will hide his shoes, and conceal ourselves behind those bushes, and wait to see his perplexity1 when he cannot find them."
"My young friend," answered the professor,"we should never amuse2 ourselves at the expense of the poor. But you are rich, and may give yourself a much greater pleasure by means of the poor man. Put a coin into each shoe, and then we will hide ourselves and watch how the guild wars ecto discovery affects him."
The student did so, and they both placed themselves behind the bushes close by.
The poor man soon finished his work, and came across the field to the path where he had left his coat and shoes. While putting on his coat he slipped his foot into one of his shoes; but feeling something hard, he stooped down3 to feel what it was, and found the coin.
Astonishment4 and wonder were seen upon his countenance. He gazed upon5 the coin, turned it round, and guild wars ecto looked at it again and again. He then looked around him on all sides, but no person was to be seen. He now put the money into his pocket, and proceeded to put on the other shoe; but his surprise was doubled on finding the other coin.
His feelings overcame him; he fell upon his knees, looked up to heaven and uttered aloud a fervent6 thanksgiving, in which he spoke of gw gold his wife, sick and helpless, and his children without bread, whom the timely bounty7, from some unknown hand, would save from perishing.
The student stood there deeply affected, and his eyes filled with tears. "Now," said the professor, "are you not much better pleased than if you had played your intended trick？"
The youth replied, "You have taught me a lesson gw ecto which I will never forget. I feel now the truth of those words, which I never understood before:‘It is more blessed8 to give than to receive.'"