Advices from past generation

I want to document a few advices that I have read and also been informed by people.  Few core advices from the olden days chinese are :

1.  We must never trust anyone, including your loving wife, your respected husband, (reasons could be infidelities etc), your old serving servant (reasons, unexplainable threat, spies) , sons, daughters  that may appear to look like filial externally,  (more so when you are their soure of income) your siblings, parents and the list goes i.e.  friends, bosses, co-workers, business associates and obviously some further distance away with no relations. eg suppliers, customers,  rivalries, doctrines teachers  and  all others  that I missed out. 

I think this goes without much difficulty because we normally do not disclose all our information to the same person completely. 

2.  We never spent all our money that we earn.  A certain portion has to be save for rainy days.  Because most of the time when we are in hard times, our friends and relatives will tend to be busy and have no time to connect with you for fear of you borrowing money from them.

3.  Never regret or feel sorry for whatever bad events that may occur to you, because whatever has happened has to be happened as it is written in the book of God. 

4.  Gambling is addictives,  either you have won or you lose the game.  Possibly more addicted if one has won. Eventually you will lose more than you won.

5.  Only lend money to people  to the extent you are afford to lose  because chances are that you will never get back your money.  This also applies even if you go through legal proceedings.

6.  Take care of your well being as much as you can through proper diet, proper ethical discpline, proper rest and learning to let go of anger and hatred.  The reasons is that once you are ill and sick, you will be suffering more than when you are poor financially.  Besides medical cost are exorbitant high these days.

7.  Our finite mind is unable to understanding everything by intellectual rationing.  Even scriptures and religions are unable to explain everything rationally.  Therefore most of the time we just got to close one eye or close one ear to our surrounding, less  we  will be feel more disappointed, resentful and upset.

8. Life is meant not to be taken extremely serious.  We do not really knows what will happen say tomorrow, next week   or in the future.

So enjoy it while it lasts.