Finders Keepers? Really now……

08.27.2009

This is about what I really think about the idea of  “Finders Keepers”……………….

To be honest, I never like the term “Finders Keepers.”

When someone is happy for finding something (and deciding to keep it), another person might be looking for it.

But are we really entitle to keep what we found?

Who said so?

Don’t tell me “everyone says so,” because who is that “everyone” to decided the fate of my things?

I often think the person who started this phrase is full of GREED and EXCUSES, this person wanted to keep something that is not his/her when it was found, so came up with the “finders keepers” idea.

But what if, we are the one that lost our important personal belonging?  Like, an iPod, cell phone, favorite drawing book, notebook, wallet, etc……  What do we say then?  Are we the “weeping losers” then?

If we lost something, even in today’s world of “Finders Keepers,” we still wish we can recover what we lost, we still wish that whoever finds it would return it, not keeping it.

Then why do we keep others’ lost items as our own?

I think we shouldn’t keep it even if we found it, period.

For those of you who found my lost cell phones, books, wallets, and many other things, I want to thank you for returning them to me.

YOU ARE HIGHLY APPRECIATED!

I hope one day, our world can achieve the phase as Confucius has mentioned in the “Chapter of Great Harmony,”

“No need to lock up doors at night, for there is no thieves,
Anything valuable dropped on the floor won’t be taken, for everyone is considerate and has integrity.”

I pray for that one day……………….