the wisdom of Winnie the Pooh and Mahatma Ghandi

as a child, i had a collection of videotapes my father would buy me during his trips to bangkok. you see, we were living in myanmar that time and there weren't new videos of cartoons that i liked to watch. so i collected them all. papa introduced me to Casper, Tom and Jerry, the Warner Bros. cartoons, and Disney cartoons. everyday after school after taking my nap (mama said it would make me grow faster with a glass of milk in the evening), i'd ask ate to pop the Winnie and Friends tape for me into the VCR player. i'd sit on the floor with my head tilted to the t.v. screen and giggle at the sight of Winnie and his friends.

while browsing quotations from a website, i came across quotes from Pooh bear.

From Pooh Bear:

“A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.”

“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”

“Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.”

“Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is go where they can find you.”

“You can't always sit in your corner of the forest and wait for people to come to you... you have to go to them sometimes.”



my childhood will always be a place in my heart which will be a source of happiness. no matter what mood i am in, when i look back and recall growing up as a child i think i did almost everything. and life was really happy. it was what others would call a "happy and shiny place". that was my world when i was a child-- lots of playing, laughter, cartoons, candies, traveling, seeing the world, meeting new people, spending time with family, sharing memories with friends... it was the best. i wouldn't trade it for anything.

winnie the pooh was a huge part of it too. i wouldn't adore animals and plush stuffed toys as i do now without winnie the pooh. :)


while surfing the quotations website, i also stumbled across Ghandi's. i remember coming across the quote "Be the change you wish to see in the world." i realized that you can't just stand back and watch the world crumble and then complain about this or that. you should take action too. i am taking baby steps. i don't believe i can make that big of a difference in the world nor do i believe that with just one little helpless girl like me, there will be no more suffering in the world. of course there will be. but i do believe that with one little girl like me, there will be one less soul in pain. it's like the starfish story. do you know that? well, you should.

i am taking baby steps. my only wish is for the world to conspire to make my good intentions come true. and i don't want people expecting a lot from me. i'm taking one day at a time.


From Ghandi:

“In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all”

“An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.”

“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”

“Where there is love there is life.”