The Most Important Quality in a Person
Of all the good qualities in a person, I think cherishing everything around us is the most important quality.
A good case in point is, John, a famous musician, took his priceless zither and played it in the crowded subway station. However, during the one-hour play, only six or seven people were truly appreciating the charming music. However, in normal days, when John is about to hold a concert, one ticket can be sold at more than 100 dollars and it is extremely hard to buy a ticket even at such a high price. Therefore, later, many passers-by in the station that day felt deeply regretful for not recognizing the famous musician and missing such a valuable but cheap music feast.
It is no use crying over spilt milk. We have missed a lot of precious things in our life without knowing to cherish them. Actually, I also missed something precious before. The reason why we would have missed those precious things is less than simple: we had thought that we could still own them tomorrow.
The truth is, there’s no better time to be happy than right now. Your life will always be filled with challenges. Stop waiting until spring, until summer, until fall, until winter, until you die, until you are born again to decide that there is no better time than right now to be happy.
There was a famous monk saying that in many people’s lives, they have only
done two things: waiting and regretting. The result is that they were always too late to cherish what they had before they lost it. However, when we reach the condition we have expected, we could no longer do realize our wish any more, because we have lost it by then.
Cherishing everything around us is such an important quality in a person that we cannot ignore. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it's called \"the present\".
That’s all. Thank you!
