A sample from the very first book I wrote - Good Life!
Good Start
Introduction
It’s late 11:45 in the evening and you just can’t go to
sleep. You’re thinking about how to make your day tomorrow much better and more
fun than what you’ve experienced today. You’re boosting up with methods and
your mind suddenly flashed back today’s scene.
“Hi friends! What’s for today?” you asked your friends when
you saw each other in school. “Nothing, I have to go home early after class
because my mom wants me to help her cook”, one answered. Then another answered,
“I have to make my report. Sorry but I have to go home too. I still have pages
to study.” Then you had your eye on the last friend then your friend said, “Me?
I have to meet my parents at the mall. We’re gonna have our dinner together.”
“You!!!! You!! And You!!”, you shouted. “You really are not
true friends at all! You always find time with other things than to spend it
with me! I’m so sick of being your friend! Remember this, I’m going to find new
friends!”
Your day got ruined. You don’t know now what to do and where
to go after you’ve shouted your tonsils out in front of your BFFs since grade
school. Then you just said in your mind, “This life is hell, when will I be
happy?”
A happy life is merely different from a good life. A Happy
Life, it has something to do with your own happiness. You can be happy with
your life making decisions for your sake, for you to be happy never considering
other people, standing firm to reach your own goals and be a successful person,
and being the best that you can be for you to be known & famous. A happy
life is all about doing what you want and fulfilling your own desires in life.
Others sometimes complain when life gets tough because they thought living a
happy life is the best option.
Good life is lived
for everybody around you. Making decisions not just for your own but for others
as well, standing firm not for you to be the strongest but for others to take
courage too, being the best that you can be not to gain admiration but to show
others that everything is possible with God’s grace.
“You are the light of the world – like a city on a
hilltop that cannot be hidden. No one lights a lamp and puts it on under a
basket. Instead, a lamp is placed on a stand, where
it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way,
Let your good deeds shine out for all to see, so that everyone will praise your heavenly
Father.”
Matthew 5:14-16
A Good Life opens the possibility that it may not be always
fun, it can sometimes go wrong but you know that things happen because it’s the
best for you and for the people around you. Good is clearly all for the
better.
I find living a good life much meaningful and worth it than
living a happy life. That’s why I wrote this book to share my insights and to
encourage people especially young people to choose a good life than a happy
life, to live life on its peak not just for their selves but also for others.
