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THE NOBLE MINDED MEN ARE CALM AND STEADY

LITTLE PEOPLE ARE FOREVER FUSSING AND FRETTING.

-Confucius 

A well cultivated is always calm and steady at all times. No matter good times and in bad times in our lives we should always be calm and steady as a well cultured man. A well cultured man is calm and steady on dealing with issues and problems.

Little people are trembling and fussing when they meet issues and dramas in their lives. They remained restless and unease. They started to use foul words and crude actions to express their fretting.

The best example for this is the difference between a well cultured student and a student who has the actions and words of a barbarian. For a normal student in the Philippines, if they are agitated and faced with some kind of trauma in their lives, they are easily frustrated and starts exchanging words. They n longer think and thus started using foul words. They are restless.

But for a person who are agitated and irritated at the time, he remains timid yet he does something to make things better instead of just putting words and no actions. He is calm and steady thus having focus on making things better by doing something productive, having a proper mind on decision making, and control over the situation.

This is also applied in peaceful and normal situations.