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Tuesday, 2 January 2007

to Give by Receive

Do you know that you could do a good deed to someone by receiving his gift?

My uncle passed away recently. Will he goes to heaven? A blast of the past came into my mind.

He said that his death is near, so he wants to give me most (if not all) of his antique stamps, coins, bills, and antique phone cards. He treasured it so much since it took a tremendous patience, labors, time, and money to collect, and arrange them into a collections that could tell stories behind all of them.

I rejected his offer since I have no interest in such a hobby, and on keeping them. Moreover, it certainly will took at the very least, a bit effort to keep them properly. As he insist, I accept a few of them.

Do you know that the greatest gift is when someone give all of his own. If I receive all his gift, that means he made a tremendous good deed. Perhaps that deed will affect to where he will go, the heaven, or the hell.
It takes two hands to clap your hands
I am not encouraging you to always put your self in the receiving end. I am truly advocate of giving, especially to give the gift that giving and pay forward, but sometimes we should be satisfied just to receive.