Today and also yesterday I had some very nice and interesting conversations with several people visiting the party that was being held at our house. So especially this morning I felt very inspired with all kinds of subjects we discussed, especially related to this site, to success, to inspiration for success. And yes, I think I wrote a nice post earlier today on my dutch site, my dutch blog. But right now I don’t know what to write anymore. Yes, I remember the subject that the only law a human should obey is ‘though shall not steal’. As almost anything can be related to that, like if you take some of the Ten Commandments like you should not kill someone, you could say you should not steal his life. Or about cheating in relationship you could say you should not steal someones wife. And I always admired the Ten Commandments, as, no matter if you are Christian or not, I think most people would agree that those ten commandments cover virtually everything or maybe even really everything about how we should live our life, treat each other. In my opinion all other laws go back to those principles, somehow. But today I was really amazed, stunned, that you could basically even put that into one law: “Though shall not steal”.
Another subject we discussed was ‘success‘, one of the major subjects of this site, of even my project Inspiration for Success. As I already long time ago, just after starting with this site, with the page about success, I already found that success is something that is personal. And related to that, being Dutch and living in The Philippines, I am still wondering if people are really different than in more Western cultures. As mostly when I ask people here what they want in life, especially younger people, they answer something like ‘I want to take care of my family’, mostly meaning providing money for the family. And even when I try to ask further, something like, ‘but if you leave your family out of the equation’ or ‘if you leave money out of the equation’ I still don’t get answers I would get from people from other cultures. Often I just don’t get an answer at all, so today, when discussing this issue, I was thinking that the question of ‘what do you want in life’ is just the right question here, in Philippine culture.
And for a long time I already have in mind to do a study about success, about when people would consider them successful, especially younger Filipino’s and people from lower classes. So maybe I should push through with that, find a way to get that done. As that question is really important to me, especially as that answer might give me some more clues on how to build the site, how to inspire people for success.
But right now I think I did pretty well writing the above, if you look at how I started this post. So maybe I should just stop now and let those things rest in my mind, as I am sure the discussion of this afternoon will inspire me for more, for better.