Answers! Why You Can't Teach Everyone To Fish

In the post that I entitled I "Questions" I told you about my brother's question... And so here is the first post to the series "Answers!"

It finally dawned on me that I will never be able to teach every single human living on this earth how to fish for themselves... Just to make things clear, I want to clarify what I mean by teaching a man how to fish... What I really meant by "learning how to fish" is the person achieving success.. Part of my dream is to see every single Filipino become successful... But the sad truth is you can't teach everyone how to fish! Why is this?!

Because some people are just lazy!

*Some people just don't care about becoming successful! They just want to sleep and wait for the next meal... A few examples of these, are adults still living with their parents, just playing with their consoles (PS2's, Wii's, Xbox's) or waste their time surfing the web and just waiting for their parents voice saying, "food is ready!"... Its a sad truth! These are people who don't have plans for their lives... Or just don't want to do something because they are lazy! Where do you think our grandparent's based the story of "Juan Tamad"?

Because some people are contented with what they are...

*Its not wrong to be content as long as it is placed in a proper context! But if you don't have a job and you don't have a means of getting the money to buy your next meal, being content about your situation is just not right! Some people get so used to living in the slums or being indigent or even being rich that they just don't want to do something to improve themselves or their lifestyles... It is a fact that rich kids suffer from being content in the wrong context too! I know some people who were born into rich families that they just gambled, had vices, cut classes, intentionally wasting their lives and when I asked them why they were doing this to themselves they simply reply with, "My parents are rich I don't need to study.." Sad isn't it?

Because not everyone has what it takes to fish for themselves...

*Yes! Not everyone has what it takes to fish for themselves... Not everyone has the ability to look past what he is doing and see what he could achieve in the future! I believe that not everyone would learn how to fish because not everyone has a dream for themselves... It could easily be seen in the world today that there are entrepreneurs, and there will always be employees... What separates the two, is innovation and a dream! But if you just want to be an employee for the rest of your life, there is nothing wrong with it...

If you see yourself as one of the types of people I mentioned above and you want to change... I believe that you can still change and dream a future for yourself... But a dream is nothing unless you have the determination and motivation to make it happen... Work towards the goals you set!