A landowner going out at daybreak to hire workers for his vineyard. He made an agreement with the workers for one denarius a day and sent them to his vineyard. Going out at about the third hour he saw others standing idle in the market place and said to them, "You go to my vineyard too and I will give you a fair wage." So they went. At about the sixth hour and again at about the ninth hour, he went out and did the same. Then at about the eleventh hour he went out and found more men standing around, and he said to them, "Why have you been standing here idle all day?" "Because no one has hired us," they answered. He said to them, "You go into my vineyard too." In the evening, the owner of the vineyard said to his bailiff, "Call the workers and pay them their wages, starting with the last arrivals and ending with the first." So those who were hired at about the eleventh hour came forward and received one denarius each. When the first came, they expected to get more, but they too received one denarius each. They took it, but grumbled at the landowner saying, "The men who came last have done only one hour, and you have treated them the same as us, though we have done a heavy day's work in all the heat." He answered one of them and said, "My friend, I am not being unjust to you; did we not agree on one denarius? Take your earnings and go. I choose to pay the last comer as much as I pay you. Have I no right to do what I like with my own? Why should you be envious because I am generous?" Thus the last will be first, and the first, last.'
From this passage, it seems that everything is so unfair. Why the people who work the hardest get the same wage with the person who works less? This is the situation we always face in our life. We work so hard and yet our boss doesn’t favor us. What can we do is to change our point of view.
Let’s talk about the 1st person who gets the work. He had been called to work since early morning, which means he doesn’t have to worry about the rest of the day. But, for the last person to be called. He had waited for the whole day looking for job, and had suffered, worried for not getting job to support his family. Only finally get a job at the nearly end of the day.
Both of them got their own story, and it can’t be compared.
Sometimes we can’t get what we expect in our life, because it’s still not in the right time. Everyone got their own role in the world. It’s just matter that whether you got your role earlier or later. But each of every role weights the same.
It’s useless to envy and have grudge with other people just because that they are better than you in some way. But to accept who you are, live your life to the fullest and hope for the best to come.
This will always be the best EQ to survive in this fast pace, temptation world.
