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Hard
and Easy
I recently read the article “Right and Wrong – Good and Bad” written by Bac Han, a Khai Minh alumni of 1969/1972 class and I totally agree with him. It is not an absolute, but rather a relative, concept and it is up to us how to interpret it. In addition to Right and Wrong, Good and Bad, I like to add Hard and Easy. I remember when I graduated from the 8th grade; we passed around the souvenir book for our classmates to write something. One of the comments stood out and I still remember it now: “Do we really have hard or easy task? If we do it, hard task will be easy; if we don’t do it, easy task will be hard.” That happened in 1974 and it is proven to be a good advice to me whenever I struggle in life. I always ask myself that question and I find a way to make a hard task to become easy task for me. When I first came here, I thought I could never drive a car in this country. There are too many cars on the street and the freeways look scary. Not surprisingly, I was a loyal bus rider for 6 full years until I got behind the wheel for the first time in 1986. Driving was a hard task for me from 1980 to 1986 because I didn’t do it. When I actually do it, driving is suddenly not hard any more. When I first attended UCLA in 1982, I literally got lost in a huge campus. I relied on the campus map to move around during my first week of attending UCLA. Every thing was so hard for me. The school work, the system, the courses were huge obstacles for me to overcome. Again, I asked myself that question and I determined to make a hard task to be easy. I was one of the first in my group to graduate in exactly 4 years. I graduated in the summer of 1986 when some of my friends still had one or two quarters to go. I believe most of us have our goal when we come to this country. We all took the biggest risk of risking our own life to come here, so it is logical to set a goal to make our journey worth. My goal is to be free physically and financially. I got my physical freedom when my boat arrived at Hong Kong in May of 1979. I knew it was just a matter of time before I could get to my final destination: The USA. To achieve my goal of financial freedom, I actively pursued a college degree. I believe a college degree will eventually set the base for my financial freedom. My first job was an in-house appraiser at a bank. The job gave me a comfortable life but I did not believe it will give me the financial freedom that I sought. I tried the stock market in mid 90’s. It is easy to make money but it is also easy to lose money in the stock market. The hard task is to make AND keep money trading the market. To accomplish that hard task, I need to educate myself and develop an effective trading strategy. It was undoubtedly a hard task for me. Again, I asked myself the question and I determine to make it an easy task. Do we really have hard or easy task? If we do it, hard task will be easy; if we don’t do it, easy task will be hard. Written by Dennis Phan |
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