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jasonlulu_2000
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 Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 4:08 pm Post subject: search through again |
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Once it was in the middle of a personal development workshop. One of the people present stood up and began giving out diamond rings to each of the one hundred people in the room.
He was a rich jeweler, he said, and he had made these expensive rings as gifts to open people's eyes to the abundance of life.
On his fifth birthday, the man explained, his uncle had taken him to a candy store and told him that he could take whatever he wanted and as much as he wanted. Certainly he was very pleased and decided to choose the things he liked best.
The whole store was open to him. He had looked at the jars and plates and he hadn't known where to start. At last, he filled a bag with all his favoirte candies. He didn't take everything , but that feeling of being able to have whatever he wanted seemed to make him very excited.
Since then , he said, he had been able to notice the abundance of life. He saw the world as full of opportunities. riches and beauty---all you had to do was, take your pick and fill your bag.
The sad truth is that most of us grow up with opposite feeling---We develop a poverty mentality.
We always believe that there simply isn't enough. We think we have to compete----, fight and struggle, so that we can get what we need and want. If we can't reach out our hands to get, someone else will be searching through our pockets. The result of that mentality is that we all have to go hungry.
Get a taste of abundance and try to have a great life!
what does the underlined sentence mean?
Thanks again
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dragn
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| Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 10:18 am Post subject: |
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| ...If we can't reach out our hands to get, someone else will be searching through our pockets. The result of that mentality is that we all have to go hungry... |
To be honest, it really doesn't make sense to me in the given context. However, if it read:
"If we reach out our hands to get, someone else will be searching through our pockets."
...this would make absolutely perfect sense to me. This would be like saying we are afraid to reach out to get what we really want because we feel that if we do, we will lose what we have or it will be taken from us. So, we spend our lives worrying about guarding what little we have instead of "thinking big" and reaching out to get what we truly want, which is precisely the writer's point.
This piece may have been written by a native speaker, but to be honest the writing doesn't really suggest an exceptionally high degree of skill on the part of the writer (assuming you copied it accurately). So, I am forced to at least consider the possibility that the writer simply got it wrong.
It happens.
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jasonlulu_2000
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| Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 7:23 pm Post subject: thank you |
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| I think you are absolutely right. Thank you. |
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