Pain Truth 3

COUPLE months ago, one of my fellow colleague's wife came here to visit him & find a job. Being a young childless couple, it's obvious they want to live together here. So they tried their best with the prospect of landing a suitable job. She is a holder of account degree and have considerable working experience. So she might have a good chance to get a job here as accountants are second most presence here after engineering educated migrant workers from my native land. I also wish him to get good luck.

But the problem started when his wife refused to apply job on certain days. I was fully surprised to hear from these bitter experience from my first. Once my friend told me that incident, I was totally upsetting and advised him to convince her change attitude. Why? She consulted with an astrologer before she came here. She was told by the stupid astrologer that not to apply job on sudden days. Those days include Mon, Wed & Thursday. What a shift is it? There are only five working days and she is asked not to apply job on 3 days a week. The problem existing in both sides, not only at astrologer but herself.

Being an educated person, why she is following unrealistic instruction? She should have understood that she can get a job when she apply job. Who will come and give her a job without applying? By doing so, she applied less possible jobs that lead her get very limited job interview. If I am not wrong she got only two interview within a span of allowable 2 months time. So who is going to take responsible for her unsuccessful mission? She's desperate to work and live together with her husband. But unfortunately she will have to go back Myanmar tomorrow and it won't be easy for her to get another chance in near future.

Now she failed to succeed her ambition and needs to go back home. She even told her husband that he had got current job due to her astrologer. What a hilarious joke? How an astrology help a person here to get a job? He may ask her to do some good things so that her husband's luck can be increased. In fact, her husband was struggling to get this job. He also failed to get his job within first two months and he was needed to leave island state to get another one month extension. She knew the story but she believe it is because of her astrologer's power.

Time goes by, she started to feel hot and switch to religious way by going monastery to seek a good way. She was told to sweep the temple compound every day in order to raise her luck by a monk. Since then she goes every day with the expect of getting an interview. But this too not working. In here, what I wonder is why our job seeker are over reliance on unseen power to get a job? It's not realistic here. A chance is born by only way that is hard working. Not by a magician or a God. They may approach whatever they believe in, but it must be due to sentimental reason. Meanwhile they must try their best by doing all possible ways. Come to find work and wait for a proper day is completely stupid act. I am so sad to learn this story as she is educated woman. Why our educated person become like that? For sure, there have been something wrong with our community.

May our people able to think of things on what's right and what's wrong without believing in something blindly. Being Buddhist, we are taught by our Lord of Buddha as follow:-

Dear my followers: please do not believe easily because of the following circumstances:-

1) it's traditional / conventionally accepted
2) it's told by teacher
3) it's told by religious
4) it's told by friends
5) it's told by relatives
6) it's told by monks
7) it's told by even myself (Lord of Buddha)
8)........
9).......
10).....

I don't remember all detail but it look like those above. What a good religious foundation have we got? Our Buddha never taught us to believe all the ways in even what he has told. in life. He strongly encourage his followers to test his discovery and realize ourselves through own research/experience. But sadly, nowadays most of people become poor and hard to get quality education that lead their brain unable to think of truth things in their daily lives. The more they are greedy the more they are going to be blind. It's unavoidable. But such kind environment is really happening in my mother land due to declination of public standard and lack of quality lives.

Hopefully our newest government can fix this kind of problem as soon as possible so that we can prevent younger generation from becoming burden for the state.