My Sedentary Lifestyle.

1. Do not confuse the process with the people.

Sometimes we tend to sacrifice the person just because we want to stick to the process even though we know that something is wrong with the process. The person is, many time, more important with the process. One good example of this is when we dined at a fastfood in Cebu. There were six of us trying to fit ourselves in a table for four people. We don't have much of a choice, the store only caters for groups of four and we need to be together since it was our working lunch. After taking our orders, we sat the down and talk about what we are about to do. When our food was served, a crew of that fastfood has the stomach to tell us to remove the extra chairs we had because it will block the aisle. I look around and nobody was there except our group; We are the only customer of the store at that time. So I reprimanded him and told him where will he put the group in such a way that we will not block the aisle. He did not responded instead he grab the chair and asked us to move. WOW!!! So I went in under his skin and give him a piece of my mind. What I thought at that moment is that after ordering food from them and paying for the place, he has now the stomach to correct us without even giving us an alternative solution to our problems. He confused the rightness of the procedure with the customer. He forgot that the customer is always right.

2. Don't confuse people with tools.

Never refer to one person as a tool. Because he is not a tool, he is a being. I hate it when some people refer to somebody as a tool. I feel that it is such a disrespect to the God who created that person. I have an example about this but I will not write it.

3. Exercise the power of choice.

This is a very relative statement. If you are a dictator then you don't give a damn about choice. What you probably want is for people to obey you whether or not they want to. Choice is a power given to us by God. Like all powers it can be used and abused. In any institution where freedom of choice is advocated, people there is has no right whatsoever to dictate choices of other people, esp if the choice is between two good things. Dictators don't belong to a these kind of institution. They just don't mix. Rebellion is not even needed to overthrow dictators because the system will overthrow the dictator itself. Free choice and forced choice just don't mix.