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一年有春夏秋冬四季节，不同的季节有着不同的生活放式，生活习惯，当然也少不了不同的生活阅历。

虽然在我国常年都是炎热多雨，但这并不代表我们大马公民一年的生活都是单调及平淡无奇。

迈入了金牛年，大街小巷都听得到“‘牛’转‘钱’坤”；当然，没有人会为此而觉得奇怪，回顾刚刚进入史记的鼠年，仿佛不止马来西亚国内发生了许许多多的不如意事及突发事件，就连世界各个角落都有着不同角度的悲剧。

美国次贷及地产泡沫的爆破掀开了千禧年的首个金融风暴，这一次的金融海啸更不止局限在美国当地而已，基于美国扮演的角色，这一个危机很快的就像病毒般的蔓延至其他国家，可以说是无一幸免。这一个危机导致许多巨人企业纷纷倒闭，在近几年来被誉为将猛涨的房屋价钱更是走向另一个方向的趋势，投资者的资金被锁在房屋；裁员风暴也因此而卷起，因美国的国内市场庞大无比，裁员风暴直接导致消化能力剧烈衰退，那么这现象就导致制造业面对了前所未有的挑战，市场消失了，业者也得下降生产，利润变成微利，业者也得裁员，这就变成了一个连锁反应，蔓延至亚洲的国家，如中国，印度等近几年刚刚崛起的经济体系的前景也受到了威胁。我们因此而步入了‘现金等于权威(Cash Is King)’的年代。人们把钱留在身边，消费前都会更加地考虑了，所以各国政府及中央银行几乎每天都在寻找对策，这造就了财富雄厚的国家不断的注入资金进市场企图刺激经济成长，中央银行更是不断的调低利率，这年代的贷款变成了更加地容易，而且也因为利息的下调而变成所谓的‘ Cheap Money’；矛盾点却是，因为借贷利息的下降，银行的利润也下滑，所以这引致了银行的定期利息也跟着下降（不然银行赚什么呢？）

美国的金融风暴成为了焦点，同时美国的政治局势也成为了热门话题。刚刚在几天前宣誓就任的第四十四位美国总统与排在他之前的领导者不同的地方出了需要处理好美国的问题以便让这世界第一大国家重新回到龙头位置外，他更是象征着思维大改革的领导人－第一位非白皮肤的总统来领导美国，相信在上个世纪，或几十年前，甚至是几年前都没有人会去想象，但是今天它的却是发生了啊！带着‘改变及希望’的口号，奥巴马总统需要做出一项伟大的改革，万事艰辛，始于第一步；如果你觉得你面对的挑战是很困难而不敢前进，朋友，你认为他的使命就微小容易吗？

在我们即将踏入金牛年的时候，战乱又在侵袭人类的国土了！以色列所展开的恶意攻势，夺取了许多小孩的未来，血腥的战争让我们明白了武力及暴力绝对不会是解决问题的好方案。为世界的未来尽一份绵力，我们因该一起推动和平的口号！

除了人为的灾祸，中国四川的天灾及后来在我国频频发生的土崩事件更是让我们觉得生命是非常的脆弱的。这一些天灾让‘环保及保卫地球’的口号与思想剧升，‘绿化’及节省能源已经成为了人们关注的重要事件之一了，希望我们的环境与我们的发展是有一个平衡点的，第一步，因该是由每一个公民开始主动的控制自己的行为，除了不要随意丢垃圾，看到垃圾拾起来肯定是一个重要的第一步，爱护你的家，就得确保地球也是先受爱护。

进入人人口中的‘新的一年，新的希望’了，但是这类型的话语，有哪一年是没有人说的呢？为什么大部分的人都无法达到该年的目标或梦想而是习惯了希望新的一年会带来新的开始，而到最后又在重复的做出同样的‘希望’的呢？

我说，那是因为大部分的人都只是在想，而没有行动来支持所想的。就算有一部分人是由拿出行动来支配思想，但是却是少了不可或缺的坚持。

祝愿大家，在今天开始，对任何目标都拥有那一刻坚持的心，以便可以读过一个美满又充实的２００９年！

最后，

新年快乐，祝大家万事如意！

梁浩詺　字

备注：本人名字已改，由梁健铭，改至梁浩詺。

There was a young and enthusiastic man who was in his early twenty. One marvellous day, this young man told himself with a firm voice that he wanted to change the whole world, to dimisnish poverty, to create eternal happiness, to wipe away war for goods, and etc.

In order to change the world, he decided that he should travel around the world to instill good values into people around the wolrd, so on he went.

After a long yet tiring journey around the globe which took him around 10 years, he still could not see the desired outcome. War still raging, poverty and robbery were still on the rise, the picture was similar to that of 10 years ago.

“i could not have change the world by my own strength’. He told himself, immersed in disappoinment.
Suddenly, he found hope again. “wait, but i maybe can change my country”

So on he set out again, this time, with the same objective, he aimed to change the situation in his country.

‘Again, a good 10 years had past and everything was more or less the same. This time, he said to himself that even his country, he could not have hold the power to change the situation on his own. Despair, he lost his confident.

But again, he found his spirit when he began to think that maybe he could change the situation starting from his village. So he returned to his native village with the objective held firmly in his mind. Again, a good 10 years had past and he realized that all his efforts and hardwork had not produced any significant changes.

This time, he was again filled with massive disappoinment, engulged by darkness, lost his faith with life. He thought of leaving this world silently by putting a knife on his Aorta area. Before he gathered enough courages to do that, he had his enlightenment that changed the rest of his life.

“i have dedicated my whole life, 10 years i want to change the world, 10 years i want to change my country, for 10 years of invaluable times i wanted to change my village, yet after this 30 years, i have changed nothing. But what if, i started from today, by changing my own self?” His self-dialouge was quite heavy and he engaged quite long with his sub-conscious mind on this issue.

“Yeah, if i start by changing myself, maybe everything will appear in a new light”
So there he started off again. He began to change his perspective and value in life, to see things differently, to feel things and people around him from different angle, and from now on, everything began to make sense, to become great for him, he found his purpose in life.

This is a story which intended to teach the reader, whatever that we get involved with, we may find it easy to acknowledge every obstacles and circumstances to the mistakes of other parties, we find that blaming other parties for the failure of some efforts is the solution or factor to the failure, then we begin to think that if that someone had change, or that someone did not do this did not do that, things would then be so much different. But we seldom look at ourselves and reassess ourselves, it was us who needed the attention when we realized that something gotta change.

Einstein put in a very make-sense way. ” the problem that we are facing cannot be solved at the same level of thinking when we create the problem”. If we want to find a solution to a problem, we have to lift our mental quality to a higher level, to look at the problem from a higher level, but not at the same level that we create the problem to burden our mind. Imagination, is what we need best in the very end.