[George David Lundberg, M.D.]

George David Lundberg, M.D.




“I am Dr. George Lundberg, Editor in Chief of Medscape General Medicine from WebMD, and Co-Chair of the new Physicians and Lawyers for National Drug Policy.” ~ April 20, 2004, National Press Club, Washington, DC. Taken from 'George D. Lundberg Opening Remarks Physicians and Lawyers for National Drug Policy: A Public Health Approach Kick-off Event.'



The most famous and influential person to live in Silverhill, and attend Silverhill School is Dr. George David Lundberg, II. This distinguished pathologist began his career in medicine mopping floors in the City Hospital of Mobile, Alabama in 1951. Now he is known as a “pioneer” of the medical internet. Dr. Lundberg and his Silverhill family have taken part in many “firsts”. Click here to read more about his Silverhill family.

[Louise Johnson married George David Lundberg, Sr. - Click to Enlarge.] Dr. Lundberg's parents, Louise Johnson and George D. Lundberg, Sr. were married on July 25, 1920 at her family home in Silverhill. After their marriage they moved to Foley, Alabama to live for a very short time, then moved back to Silverhill to live the rest of their lives.

Their first and only child, George David Lundberg, II, was born in Pensacola, Florida at Scared Heart Hospital on March 21, 1933.

George David grew up and attended Silverhill School where his mother also taught. It was during these early years that he decided he would like to become a doctor. If he became sick with a childhood illness the family doctor, Henry C. Jordon of Robertsdale, would make a house call. Dr. Jordan was friendly, sympathetic, and easy to talk to, with a professional competence that inspired George David.

He and his family were faithful church members at the Mission Covenant Church in Silverhill. He was very active in church and youth activities. There, George David learned about mission work and the importance in helping others.

Since both of his parents taught music, George David took lessons in violin and piano. He also taught himself to play the clarinet. He enjoyed singing in the church and community choirs, sometimes performing solos.

Many summers the Lundberg family would move to Troy, Alabama where they boarded in private homes while Louise attended college classes full time. A couple of those summers, George David was enrolled into the “Training School” which was experimental educational classes for children. This boost in his schooling was one of the reasons he was able to skip three grades: fifth, eighth, and eleventh.

With all of his studies, George David enjoyed other pastimes. These included fishing in the bays and gulf, swimming, playing softball, baseball, and football.

At Robertsdale High School he proved himself to be an excellent scholar and considering the amount of time his parents required him to study and the fact he was younger than his classmates, he was also a very good athlete. His high school graduation was two months after his fifteenth birthday in 1948.

George David went on to North Park College, the Mission Covenant college in Chicago to study premed. He enjoyed the college's intramural sports and being a part of the North Park Orchestra. He was an outstanding competitor in their ping-pong competitions. He graduated in 1950 with an Associate in Arts degree in premed.

Still having a desire to be a physician, he continued his education in premedical studies at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. It was during his third year of premed that George David was hired by the City Hospital of Mobile to mop floors in the operating rooms between operations and clean everything up before the next patient was wheeled in. He was paid only about $100 a month which was about half of what minimum wage was at that time. After a few weeks he was promoted to orderly, working with nurses, interns, and patients.

When he had finished biochemistry studies in graduate school, he helped to set up a chemistry lab at the Druid City Hospital in Tuscaloosa and was the first chemistry technician to work in that laboratory. There he introduced the first Flame photometer in the western part of Alabama, which helped to advance the care of diabetics in coma.

Even with all of his work and studies, he still found time for intramural sports, and playing in the Alabama Million Dollar Band from 1950-1953. He finished premed, graduating in 1952 at the age of 19 with a Bachelor of Science degree. After several attempts he was admitted into what was then called the Medical College of Alabama in Birmingham in 1953.

George David Lundberg, II, and Nancy Ware Sharp were married on August 18, 1956 in Birmingham, Alabama. (They eventually had three children, George III, Charles, and Carol).

It was also in 1956 that he joined the army. During his four years in medical school he stayed at the top of his class academically, and during his last year was at the first of his class, graduating in 1957. Since he was in the army, he completed his internship at Tripler General Hospital, in Honolulu, Hawaii, 1957-1958, and his pathology residency at Brooke General Hospital, in San Antonio, Texas 1958-1962, and received his Master of Science degree in Pathology from Baylor College of Medicine, in Houston, Texas. The New England Journal of Medicine published his first scientific paper he had ever written, in 1961.

In 1963, Dr. Lundberg had his first experience with a computer, back when one computer was large enough to fill an entire room. From his book, “Severed Trust”, on page 134, he says:

I began working with computers in 1963, when I was stationed at Letterman Hospital in San Francisco as a captain in the U.S. Army and was assigned by my chief to automate the California Tumor Tissue Registry. He told me to put it on a computer, and I asked how I would do that. “Go over to that building,” he said, pointing. “They’ve got a huge machine in there called a computer. Talk to those folks, and they will tell you how to take this information off these cards and put it onto a different set of keypunched cards. You can then feed the keypunched cards into a computer, and it will print out information in an orderly, sorted-out way.”

He was successful in automating the registry. Two years later the Army sent him to the IBM education center in Poughkeepsie, New York to take a one-week course called “Computing for Physicians”. About one hundred other physicians gathered to learn how to use computers. One of their main teachers was Donald Lindberg who was also a pathologist and an expert in computer medicine. Dr. Lindberg would become Dr. Lundberg's lifelong friend, joining him years later on the editorial board at JAMA and even later at Medscape.

With the information he learned at IBM, Dr. Lundberg went to William Beaumont General Hospital in 1965 at El Paso, Texas, as chief of pathology and installed the first computer system into a U.S. military hospital clinical laboratory. In the process, he became the first military pathologist to use computers in a hospital lab. Two years later, while still at Beaumont, he installed the first electronic microscope in a U.S. military hospital lab.

After leaving the army in 1967 as a lieutenant colonel, he was Professor of Pathology and Associate Director of Laboratories at the Los Angeles County/USC Medical Center. During his ten years there, Dr. Lundberg took part in many firsts:

* Founding member of the California Association of Toxicologists;

* Originator of the Critical (Panic) Value system for reporting very abnormal clinical laboratory results in 1972 (now national policy);

* Created the concept of the Patient-Focused Laboratory, organized around Turn Around Times for lab test results;

* Founding member of the California Society for the Treatment of Alcoholism and Other Drug Dependencies in 1973 (later became the California Society of Addiction Medicine).

From 1977 to 1982, Dr. Lundberg was Professor and Chairman in the Department of Pathology at the University of California at Davis.

[George David Lundberg, M.D.] From 1982 to 1999, Dr. Lundberg was at the American Medical Association (AMA) as Editor in Chief, Scientific Information and Multimedia Group with editorial responsibility for its 39 medical journals, American Medical News, and various Internet products. Dr. Lundberg is particularly noted for his skilled editorial leadership of the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), covering some of the most dramatic transformations in American health care. He was widely published in the scientific and lay press with frequent appearances on national television on health care issues. Over his seventeen-year period at AMA, Dr. Lundberg was a part of some more firsts:

* Founder of the AMA's quadrennial International Congress on Peer Review in Biomedical Publications in 1989;

* Founding member of the World Association of Medical Editors at Lake Como, Bellagio, Italy in 1995;

* Founding member of Physician Leadership on National Drug Policy in New York City, 1997;

* Developer at JAMA of the concept of Theme Issues on topics of great medical importance for medical journals, emphasizing such subjects as the prevention of nuclear war, tobacco addiction, alternative medicine, and computers in medicine.

Even though Dr. Lundberg had been working with some form of computers since 1963, it was not until the mid-1990s that he became involved in working with the Internet by helping to create the “medical” Internet. He has been a part of the medical Internet from its first beginnings.

In 1999, Dr. Lundberg became Editor in Chief and Executive Vice President of Medscape and the Founding Editor of Medscape General Medicine the world's first and still only, primary source, peer reviewed, fully electronic general medical journal on the internet. He also became founding Editor in Chief of CBS HealthWatch.com. In 2002, Dr. Lundberg became Editor in Chief Emeritus of Medscape and Special Healthcare Advisor to the Chairman and CEO of WebMD. A frequent lecturer, radio and television guest, and a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, Dr. Lundberg holds academic appointments as a professor at Northwestern and Harvard. In 2000, the Industry Standard dubbed Dr. Lundberg “Online Health Care's Medicine Man”.

In his book, “Severed Trust”, on page 159 he says:

I have learned that there are four reasons for wanting to become a doctor.

First, people who aspire to become doctors want to take care of sick people. They want to be of service, to help people stay well, and to help them get well if they are sick. This is a real motivation for almost everyone who applies to medical school.

Second, people who want to become doctors are good at science. They are good students who have studied mathematics, biology, and other sciences and earned good grades throughout their primary, secondary, and higher education. Otherwise, they couldn’t get into medical school.

Third, people who want to become doctors want to have a good deal of independence. They like being in charge of their own lives; they look forward to opening their own practices and making up their own minds about how best to proceed in caring for patients. They want to govern themselves, to not be intruded upon by others.…

Fourth, people who want to be doctors want to make money.… People who go into medicine often make a lot of money – certainly not as much as captains of business, finance, and industry, but well beyond the average income. Physicians usually can live in nice houses, buy good automobiles, and send their kids to good schools. They can go to the symphony when they want and rarely worry about the cost of a new camera.

During his career, Dr. Lundberg has also worked in tropical medicine in Central America and Forensic Medicine in New York, Sweden and England. He has received honorary degrees in science from the State University of New York, Syracuse; Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia; the University of Alabama at Birmingham; and the Medical College of Ohio, Toledo. His major professional interests are toxicology, violence, communication, physician behavior, and strategic management. Throughout his career Dr. Lundberg has focused on ways to make the American health care system better. His views on the issues and directions for change have been thoughtfully addressed in his book, “Severed Trust - Why American Medicine Has Not Been Fixed”, published in 2001.

Dr. Lundberg has been married to Patricia Lorimer Lundberg, Ph.D., since March 6, 1983. She is the former Patricia Ann Blacklidge, and is presently an English Professor and Dean at Indiana University Northwest.


Written September 2003 by Debbie Owen.

U Thant ,third Secretary General of United Nations

(born Jan. 22, 1909, Pantanaw, Burma [now Myanmar]—died Nov. 25, 1974, New York, N.Y., U.S.) Myanmar educator, civil servant, and third secretary general of the United Nations (1962–71).

"U" is an honorific in Burmese, roughly equal to "mister." "Thant" was his only name. In Burmese he was known as Pantanaw U Thant, in reference to his home town of Pantanaw.

Neutralist by inclination and in practice, he criticized both West and East for actions and attitudes that he considered threatening to world peace.

U Thant was educated at the University of Yangôn (Rangoon) later the Arts and Science University, where he met Thakin Nu (afterward U Nu, who became prime minister of Myanmar in 1948). The death of Thant's father (1928) forced him to leave the university before graduation, and he returned to his hometown as a teacher at the National High School and later (from 1931) as headmaster. In 1942 he was secretary to the educational reorganization committee of the government of Japanese-occupied Burma. From 1943 to 1947 he once more was headmaster at Pantanaw.After World War II Thant was recruited for government service by U Nu and General U Aung San, leader of the Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League. He was appointed press director (1947), director of broadcasting (1948), and secretary of the Ministry of Information (1949). In 1952–53 he was a Myanmar (Burmese) delegate to the UN, becoming his country's permanent UN representative in 1957. He was vice president of the UN General Assembly in 1959.After the death of UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld, the United States and the Soviet Union, failing to agree on a permanent successor, accepted U Thant as a compromise candidate for the acting secretaryship, to which he was elected on Nov. 3, 1961. On Nov. 30, 1962, he was elected permanent secretary general, and he was re-elected for five years on Dec. 2, 1966; he retired at the end of 1971. A devout Buddhist, he sought to apply the principles of detachment and concentration to the solving of international problems.U Thant died in New York City of cancer, and his body was returned to Yangôn for burial. There it became involved in a bizarre tug of war between university students, who seized it on Dec. 5, 1974, and buried it in a hastily built mausoleum in the grounds of the Arts and Science University, and police, who retrieved it by force on December 11, buried it privately, and sealed the tomb in concrete. Subsequent rioting led to the military regime's declaration of martial law in the city and to several deaths.Thant wrote (in Burmese) books on the history of cities, the League of Nations, and Myanmar education, as well as a three-volume history of post-World War II Myanmar (1961). A collection of his public addresses and essays from 1957 to 1963 was published as Toward World Peace (1964), and View from the UN (1978), an account of his years as secretary general, was published posthumously.

Barack Hussein Obamam,jr Biography

President of the United States. Born Barack Hussein Obama on August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii. Obama's mother, Ann Dunham, grew up in Wichita, Kansas, where her father worked on oil rigs during the Depression. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dunham's father, Stanley, enlisted in the service and marched across Europe in Patton's army. Dunham's mother, Madelyn, went to work on a bomber assembly line. After the war, the couple studied on the G.I. Bill, bought a house through the Federal Housing Program and, after several moves, landed in Hawaii.

Obama's father, Barack Obama, Sr., was born of Luo ethnicity in Nyanza Province, Kenya. The elder Obama grew up herding goats in Africa, eventually earning a scholarship that allowed him to leave Kenya and pursue his dreams of college in Hawaii. While studying at the University of Hawaii in Manoa, Obama, Sr. met fellow student, Ann Dunham. They married on February 2, 1961. Barack was born six months later.

Obama's parents separated when he was two years old, later divorcing. Obama, Sr. went on to Harvard to pursue Ph.D. studies, and then returned to Kenya in 1965. In 1966, Dunham married Lolo Soetoro, another East–West Center student from Indonesia. A year later, the family moved to Jakarta, Indonesia, where Obama's half-sister Maya Soetoro Ng was born. Several incidents in Indonesia left Dunham afraid for her son's safety and education so, at the age of 10, Barack was sent back to Hawaii to live with his maternal grandparents. His mother and sister later joined them.

While living with his grandparents, Obama enrolled in the esteemed Punahou Academy, excelling in basketball and graduating with academic honors in 1979. As one of only three black students at the school, Obama became conscious of racism and what it meant to be African-American. He later described how he struggled to reconcile social perceptions of his multiracial heritage with his own sense of self. "I began to notice there was nobody like me in the Sears, Roebuck Christmas catalog...and that Santa was a white man," he said. "I went to the bathroom and stood in front of the mirror with all my senses and limbs seemingly intact, looking the way I had always looked, and wondered if something was wrong with me."

Obama also struggled with the absence of his father, who he saw only once more after his parents divorced, in a brief 1971 visit. "[My father] had left paradise, and nothing that my mother or grandparents told me could obviate that single, unassailable fact," he later reflected. "They couldn't describe what it might have been like had he stayed." Obama, Sr. eventually lost his legs in an automobile accident, also losing his job as a result. In 1982, he died in yet another car accident while traveling in Nairobi. Obama, Jr. was 22 years old when he received the news of his father's passing. "At the time of his death, my father remained a myth to me," Obama said, "both more and less than a man."

After high school, Obama studied at Occidental College in Los Angeles for two years. He then transferred to Columbia University in New York, graduating in 1983 with a degree in political science. After working in the business sector for two years, Obama moved to Chicago in 1985. There, he worked on the South Side as a community organizer for low-income residents in the Roseland and the Altgeld Gardens communities.

It was during this time that Obama, who said he "was not raised in a religious household," joined the Trinity United Church of Christ. He also visited relatives in Kenya, which included an emotional visit to the graves of his biological father and paternal grandfather. "For a long time I sat between the two graves and wept," Obama said. "I saw that my life in America—the black life, the white life, the sense of abandonment I felt as a boy, the frustration and hope I'd witnessed in Chicago—all of it was connected with this small plot of earth an ocean away."

Obama returned from Kenya with a sense of renewal, entering Harvard Law School in 1988. The next year, he met Michelle Robinson, an associate at Sidley & Austin law firm in Chicago. She was assigned to be Obama's adviser during a summer internship at the firm, and soon the couple began dating. In February 1990, Obama was elected the first African-American editor of the Harvard Law Review, and he graduated magna cum laude in 1991.

After law school, Obama returned to Chicago to practice as a civil rights lawyer, joining the firm of Miner, Barnhill & Galland. He also taught at the University of Chicago Law School, and helped organize voter registration drives during Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign. On October 3, 1992, he and Michelle were married. They moved to Kenwood, on Chicago's South Side, and welcomed two daughters: Malia (born 1998) and Sasha (born 2001).

Obama published his autobiography in 1995 Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance. The work received high praise from literary figures such as Toni Morrison and has since been printed in 10 languages, including Chinese, Swedish and Hebrew. The book had a second printing in 2004, and is currently being adapted into a children's version. The 2006 audiobook version of Dreams, which was narrated by Obama, received a Grammy award for Best Spoken Word Album.

Obama's advocacy work led him to run for the Illinois State Senate as a Democrat. He won election in 1996. During these years, Obama worked with both Democrats and Republicans in drafting legislation on ethics, expanded health care services, and early childhood education programs for the poor. He also created a state earned-income tax credit for the working poor. Obama became chairman of the Illinois Senate's Health and Human Services Committee as well, and after a number of inmates on death row were found innocent, he worked with law enforcement officials to require the videotaping of interrogations and confessions in all capital cases.

In 2000, Obama made an unsuccessful Democratic primary run for the U. S. House of Representatives seat held by four-term incumbent candidate Bobby Rush. Undeterred, Obama created a campaign committee in 2002, and began raising funds to run in the 2004 U.S. Senate Race. With the help of political consultant David Axelrod, Obama began assessing his prospects of a Senate win.

Following the 9/11 attacks in 2001, Obama was an early opponent of President George W. Bush's push to war with Iraq. Obama was still a state senator when he spoke against a resolution authorizing the use of force against Iraq during a rally at Chicago's Federal Plaza in October 2002. "I am not opposed to all wars. I'm opposed to dumb wars," he said. "What I am opposed to is the cynical attempt by Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz and other arm-chair, weekend warriors in this Administration to shove their own ideological agendas down our throats, irrespective of the costs in lives lost and in hardships borne." Despite his protests, the war with Iraq began in 2003.

Obama, encouraged by poll numbers, decided to run for the U.S. Senate open seat vacated by Republican Peter Fitzgerald. In the 2004 Democratic primary, he won 52 percent of the vote, defeating multimillionaire businessman Blair Hull and Illinois Comptroller Daniel Hynes. That summer, he was invited to deliver the keynote speech in support of John Kerry at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston. Obama emphasized the importance of unity, and made veiled jabs at the Bush administration and the diversionary use of wedge issues.

After the convention, Obama returned to his U.S. Senate bid in Illinois. His opponent in the general election was supposed to be Republican primary winner Jack Ryan, a wealthy former investment banker. However, Ryan withdrew from the race in June 2004, following public disclosure of unsubstantiated sexual deviancy allegations by Ryan's ex-wife, actress Jeri Ryan.

In August 2004, diplomat and former presidential candidate Alan Keyes accepted the Republican nomination to replace Ryan. In three televised debates, Obama and Keyes expressed opposing views on stem cell research, abortion, gun control, school vouchers and tax cuts. In the November 2004 general election, Obama received 70 percent of the vote to Keyes' 27 percent, the largest electoral victory in Illinois history. With his win, Barack Obama became only the third African-American elected to the U.S. Senate since the Reconstruction.

Sworn into office January 4, 2005, Obama partnered with Republican Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana on a bill that expanded efforts to destroy weapons of mass destruction in Eastern Europe and Russia. Then, with Republican Senator Tom Corburn of Oklahoma, he created a website that tracks all federal spending. Obama also spoke out for victims of Hurricane Katrina; pushed for alternative energy development; and championed improved veterans' benefits.

His second book, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream, was published in October 2006. The work discussed Obama's visions for the future of America, many of which became talking points for his eventual presidential campaign. Shortly after its release, it hit No. 1 on both the New York Times and Amazon.com bestsellers lists.

In February 2007, Obama made headlines when he announced his candidacy for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination. He was locked in a tight battle with former first lady and then-U.S. Senator from New York, Hillary Rodham Clinton. On June 3, 2008, however, Obama became the presumptive nominee for the Democratic party, and Senator Clinton delivered her full support to Obama for the duration of his campaign. On November 4th, 2008, Barack Obama defeated Republican presidential nominee John McCain for the position of U.S. President, 52.9 percent to 45.7 percent. On January 20, 2009, Obama became the 44th president of the United States—and the first African-American to hold this office.

When Obama took office, he inherited a global economic recession; two on-going foreign wars; and the lowest international favorability rating for the United States ever. He campaigned on an ambitious agenda of financial reform, alternative energy, and reinventing education and health care—all while bringing down the national debt. Because these issues were intertwined with the economic well-being of the nation, he believed all would have to be undertaken simultaneously. During his inauguration speech, Obama summarized the situation by saying, "Today I say to you that the challenges we face are real. They are serious and they are many. They will not be met easily or in a short span of time. But know this, America: They will be met."

Between Inauguration Day and April 29, the Obama administration took to the field on many fronts. Obama coaxed Congress to expand health care insurance for children and provide legal protection for women seeking equal pay. A $787 billion stimulus bill was passed to promote short-term economic growth. Housing and credit markets were put on life-support, with a market-based plan to buy U.S. banks' toxic assets. Loans were made to the auto industry, and new regulations were proposed for Wall Street. He also cut taxes for working families, small businesses and first-time home buyers. The president also loosened the ban on embryonic stem cell research and moved ahead with a $3.5 trillion budget plan.

During his first 100 days, President Obama also undertook a complete overhaul of America's foreign policy. He reached out to improve relations with Europe, China, Russia and open dialogue with Iran, Venezuela, and Cuba. He lobbied allies to support a global economic stimulus package. He committed an additional 21,000 troops to Afghanistan and set an August 2010 date for withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. In more dramatic incidents, he took on pirates off the coast of Somalia and prepared the nation for an attack of the Swine Flu. For his efforts, he was awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize by the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

ေပ်ာ့ညံ့သူရဲ႕လမ္းကိုသာ ပိတ္ဆို႔တဲ့ ဆင္းရဲဒုကၡ

"ေမြးဖြားရာ ပတ္ဝန္းက်င္၊ ေနရာေဒသက အရာရာကို ဆံုးျဖတ္ႏိုင္ခြင့္မရွိဘူး။ ဘယ္လိုပတ္ဝန္းက်င္မွာပဲ ေမြးဖြားခဲ့ပါေစ... ဆင္းရဲဒုကၡကို ေက်ာ္လႊားႏိုင္မွ ႀကီးျမတ္တဲ့ ေအာင္ျမင္မႈကိုရမွာျဖစ္တယ္။ သူေဌးသားသမီးတိုင္း ကံေကာင္းတယ္လို႔ မထင္ၾကနဲ႔။ တစ္ခ်ဳိ႕သူေဌးသားေတြက ေငြေၾကးရဲ႕ ေက်းကြၽန္ျဖစ္ၾကရတယ္။ ဥစၥာပစၥည္းေတြရဲ႕ ျဖားေယာင္းမႈကို သူတို႔မတြန္းလွန္ႏိုင္ခဲ့လို႔ ဒုကၡတြင္းနက္ထဲ က်ခဲ့ၾကတယ္။ စည္းစိမ္ခ်မ္းသာမႈနဲ႔ ေပ်ာ္ပါးႀကီးျပင္းလာတဲ့ ကေလးေတြက ဆင္းရဲတြင္းက ႀကီးျပင္းရုန္းထလာၾကတဲ့ ကေလးေတြရဲ႕ ၿပိဳင္ဖက္မျဖစ္ႏိုင္ခဲ့ဘူး။ ဆင္းရဲသားကေလးေတြ အထူးသျဖင့္ ဆင္းရဲလြန္းလို႔ ေက်ာင္းေနဖို႔အခြင့္အေရးေတာင္ မရွိၾကတဲ့ကေလးေတြက အရြယ္ေရာက္ၿပီးေနာက္ ေအာင္ျမင္တဲ့လုပ္ငန္းရွင္ေတြ ျဖစ္လာတယ္။ ....... ဆင္းရဲတဲ့ မိသားစုက ေပါက္ဖြားလာတဲ့ လူငယ္တစ္ဦးမွာ ခ်မ္းသာၾကြယ္ဝတဲ့ အေမြကို ဆက္ခံႏိုင္စြမ္းရွိတယ္"

အေမရိကန္က နာမည္ရွိသူတို႔ရဲ႕ ႀကိဳးစားရုန္းကန္တဲ့သမိုင္းကို ျပန္လွန္ၾကည့္ရင္ ေအာင္ျမင္သူအမ်ားစုက ဆင္းရဲသားမိသားစု ကေလးေတြျဖစ္တယ္။

Andrew Carnegie က ဆင္းရဲသားမိသားစုက ေပါက္ဖြားခဲ့ၿပီး ဖခင္ျဖစ္သူမွာ အထည္ခ်ဳပ္စက္ရံုကျဖစ္တယ္။ Carnegie လုပ္ငန္းစဝင္စ အလုပ္က ဘိြဳင္လာအိုးလုပ္သားျဖစ္တယ္။

Fordက လယ္သမားမိသားစုက ေပါက္ဖြားခဲ့သူျဖစ္တယ္။ ဖခင္က Fordကို လယ္သမားတစ္ဦးျဖစ္ဖို႔ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ခဲ့တယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ တစ္ျပားတစ္ခ်ပ္မွမပါဘဲ ၿမိဳ႕ေပၚတက္ သူအလုပ္ရွာခဲ့တယ္။

HP (Hewlett-Packard Company) ကုမၸဏီကို William Hewlett နဲ႔ David Packard တို႔တည္ေထာင္စက သူတို႔ရဲ႕ရင္းႏွီးျမႇဳပ္ႏွံေငြက ၅၃၈ ေဒၚလာျဖစ္ၿပီး ကုမၸဏီတည္ေနရာက သူတို႔ရဲ႕ကားဂိုေဒါင္မွာျဖစ္တယ္။

အသက္ေမြးဝမ္းေက်ာင္းထဲမွာ သတင္းစာေရာင္းတဲ့အလုပ္က စားသာတဲ့အလုပ္ မဟုတ္ခဲ့ဘူး။ ဒီအလုပ္ကို လူတစ္ခ်ဳိ႕က စားဝတ္ေနေရး ဖူလံုဖို႔ ေမွ်ာ္ကိုးခဲ့တယ္။ အေမရိကန္က လူအမ်ားေလးစားတဲ့ Edisonကလည္း ငယ္စဥ္ကတည္းက သတင္းစာေရာင္းသူျဖစ္ခဲ့တယ္။ (၁ဝ)ႏွစ္ အရြယ္တည္းက Edisonဟာ ဓာတုစမ္းသပ္မႈေတြ ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့တယ္။ တစ္ခါကရထားေပၚမွာ သတင္းစာေရာင္းရင္း စမ္းသပ္မႈတစ္ခုကို သူလုပ္ခဲ့တယ္။ အရွိန္နဲ႔ရထားေကြ႔ခ်ိန္မွာ သူစမ္းသပ္ေနတဲ့ အက္စစ္ေတြဖိတ္က် လႊင့္စင္ၿပီး အနံ႔ဆိုးေတြထြက္ခဲ့တယ္။ လူေတြရဲ႕ ျပစ္တင္ဆဲဆုိတာကို ခံရတဲ့အျပင္ ရထားတဲြေခါင္းေဆာင္ရဲ႕ လက္ဖဝါးဒဏ္နဲ႔အတူ ရထားေပၚက သူေမာင္းခ်ခံခဲ့ရတယ္။

ကြၽန္ေရာင္းဝယ္ေရးစနစ္ကို ေခ်ဖ်က္ခဲ့တဲ့ အေမရိကန္ (၁၆)ဦးေျမာက္ သမၼတလင္ကြန္းဟာ ငယ္စဥ္တည္းက မီးလင္းဖိုရဲ႕အလင္းနဲ႔ စာေတြက်က္မွတ္ခဲ့ရတယ္။ စာအုပ္ေတြဝယ္ယူဖို႔အတြက္ ကီလိုမီတာ(၇ဝ)နီးပါး သူလမ္းေလွ်ာက္ခဲ့ရတယ္။ ဘာအေမြစားအေမြခံမွ သူမရခဲ့သလို ဘယ္လိုကံေကာင္းမႈမ်ဳိးနဲ႔မွ သူမႀကံဳခဲ့ဖူးပါဘူး။ ဒါေပမယ့္ သူေအာင္ျမင္ခဲ့တယ္၊ ေရွ႕ဆက္တဲ့သူ႔လမ္းေတြ ထြန္းေတာက္ခဲ့ရတာက သူရဲ႕မဆုတ္မနစ္ ႀကိဳးစားမႈနဲ႔ ေျဖာင့္မွန္မႈေၾကာင့္ျဖစ္တယ္။

(၁၇)ဦးေျမာက္ အေမရိကန္သမၼတ Andrew Johnson ဟာ ငယ္စဥ္တည္းက အဝတ္ခ်ဳပ္ဆိုင္မွာ အလုပ္လုပ္ခဲ့တယ္။ သူဟာ ေက်ာင္းလဲေကာင္းေကာင္း တက္ခဲ့ဖူးသူမဟုတ္ဘူး။ ဒါေပမယ့္ သစ္သားအိမ္ေလးထဲမွာေနၿပီး စာမသင္ခဲ့ဖူးတဲ့၊ ဘာအေျခအျမစ္မွ မရွိသူတစ္ဦးက အေမရိကန္ ျပည္တြင္းစစ္အေတာအတြင္းမွာ သမၼတျဖစ္လာခဲ့တယ္။ သူရဲ႕ျပည့္စံုတဲ့ အေလ့အက်င့္၊ အေတြ႔အႀကံဳေၾကာင့္ တစ္ေလာကလံုးကို ေအာင္ႏိုင္ခဲ့သူျဖစ္ၿပီး ေက်းကြၽန္ေပါင္း ၄သန္းကို လြတ္ၿငိမ္းခြင့္ေပးခဲ့သူျဖစ္တယ္။

တစ္ခါက ဆင္းရဲသားမိသားစုက ေပါက္ဖြားလာတဲ့ လူငယ္တစ္ဦးရွိခဲ့တယ္။ ဖခင္ေသဆံုးခ်ိန္ အေခါင္းဝယ္စရာ ပိုက္ဆံမရွိခဲ့လို႔ အိမ္နီးခ်င္းေတြက ဝယ္ေပးခဲ့ရတယ္။ ဖခင္ေသဆံုးၿပီးေနာက္ မိခင္က ထီးစက္ရံုမွာ တစ္ေန႔(၁ဝ)နာရီ အလုပ္ဝင္လုပ္ခဲ့ၿပီး အလုပ္ဆင္း အိမ္ျပန္ခ်ိန္မွာေတာင္ လုပ္စရာအလုပ္ေတြ ယူလာတတ္ခဲ့ေသးတယ္။

ဒီလိုအေျခအေနမွာ ႀကီးျပင္းခဲ့တဲ့သူဟာ တစ္ခါက ဘုရားေက်ာင္းမွာက်င္းပတဲ့ ေဟာေျပာပဲြကို တက္ေရာက္နားေထာင္ခဲ့တယ္။ ေဟာေျပာပဲြက စိတ္ဝင္စားစရာေကာင္းတဲ့အတြက္ ေဟာေျပာဆရာလုပ္ဖို႔ သူဆံုးျဖတ္ခဲ့တယ္။ တစ္ခါသာႀကံဳခဲ့တဲ့ အေတြ႔အႀကံဳက ေနာက္တစ္ခ်ိန္မွာ ေအာင္ျမင္ဖို႔ သူ႔အတြက္လမ္းစျဖစ္ခဲ့တယ္။ အသက္ (၃ဝ) မွာ နယူးေယာက္လႊတ္ေတာ္အမတ္အျဖစ္ သူဝင္ေရြးခဲ့တယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ အဲဒီအခ်ိန္မွာ လႊတ္ေတာ္အမတ္တစ္ဦးရဲ႕ တာဝန္နဲ႔ဝတၱရားေတြအတြက္ သူျပင္ဆင္ခ်ိန္မရခဲ့ဘူး။

ပညာအဆင့္အတန္း နိမ့္ပါးခဲ့လို႔ အလုပ္မွာ အခက္ခဲေပါင္းစံု သူႀကံဳခဲ့ရတယ္။ အလုပ္နဲ႔ပတ္သက္တဲ့ စာရြက္၊ အမႈအခင္းေတြကို သူမဖတ္ႏိုင္ခဲ့ဘူး။ တစ္ခ်ဳိ႕စာလံုးေတြကို သူနားမလည္ခဲ့ဘူး။ အဲဒီအတြက္ သူေနာင္တရ စိတ္ညစ္ခဲ့တယ္။ အလုပ္ကထြက္ဖို႔အထိ သူစဥ္းစားခဲ့ေပမယ့္ မိခင္ေၾကာင့္ သူအလုပ္မထြက္ျဖစ္ခဲ့ဘူး။ အခက္အခဲေၾကာင့္ ေနာက္မတြန္႔ဖို႔၊ နိမ့္ပါးတဲ့ ဗဟုသုတေတြအတြက္ စိတ္မေကာင္းမျဖစ္ဖို႔ တစ္ေန႔ကို စာ(၁၆)နာရီဖတ္ၿပီး သူ႔ကိုယ္သူ ႏွစ္သိမ့္သင္ၾကားခဲ့တယ္။

ေက်ာင္းပညာ ေကာင္းေကာင္းမသင္ၾကားခဲ့ရတဲ့ ငယ္ဘဝကို သူေမ့ပစ္ခဲ့တယ္။ (၁ဝ)ႏွစ္လြန္ေျမာက္ၿပီးေနာက္ Smithဟာ နယူးေယာက္ရဲ႕ ႏိုင္ငံေရးနယ္ပယ္မွာ ၾသဇာအာဏာရွိသူျဖစ္လာခဲ့တယ္။ နာမည္ေကာင္း ဆုတံဆိပ္ေတြ မၾကာခဏရရွိသူျဖစ္ခဲ့ၿပီး (၄)ႀကိမ္ဆက္တိုက္ နယူးေယာက္စတိတ္ အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္သူအျဖစ္ ေရြးခ်ယ္ခံခဲ့ရတယ္။ Oxford တကၠသိုလ္၊ Colombia တကၠသိုလ္စတဲ့ တကၠသိုလ္ေပါင္း ေျခာက္ခုက ဘဲြ႔တံဆိပ္ေတြကို ရရွိခဲ့တယ္။ ေအာက္ေျခႏိုင္ငံေရးသမားဘဝကေန တစ္ႏိုင္ငံလံုး ေလးစားအားထားတဲ့ ႏိုင္ငံေရးသမားျဖစ္ေအာင္ သူႀကိဳးစားခဲ့တယ္။

နယူးေယာက္က ျပည္သူလူထု အႀကိဳက္ႏွစ္သက္ဆံုးသူအျဖစ္ နယူးေယာက္တိုင္းမ္မွာ ေဖာ္ျပခံခဲ့ရသူက Adam Smith ပဲျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

ႏွစ္ႀကိမ္ဆက္တိုက္ အေမရိကန္သမၼတအျဖစ္ အေရြးခံခဲ့ရတဲ့ Stephen Grover Cleveland ရဲ႕ ငယ္ဘဝက သာမန္ အေရာင္းဆိုင္ဝန္ထမ္းျဖစ္တယ္။ သူ႔ဝင္ေငြက တစ္ႏွစ္မွာ (၁ဝ)ေဒၚလာဝန္းက်င္သာ ရွိခဲ့တယ္။ ေနာက္ပိုင္း သူ႔ေအာင္ျမင္မႈကို ခဲြျခမ္းစိတ္ျဖာရာမွာ Cleveland က "ဆင္းရဲျခင္းကျဖစ္လာတဲ့ အာသီသေတြဟာ တကယ့္ကိုအင္အားရွိခဲ့တယ္" လို႔ ေျပာခဲ့တယ္။

အထက္ကေျပာခဲ့တဲ့လူေတြရဲ႕ ဘဝအစက ဆင္းရဲျခင္းနဲ႔ပဲ စခဲ့ၾကတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ ကံတရားကို သူတို႔အျပစ္မတင္ခဲ့ဘူး။ ဘဝကို မၿငီးျငဴခဲ့ဘူး။ ဆင္းရဲဒုကၡရဲ႕ ထိုးႏွက္ခ်က္က ေရွ႕ဆက္တိုးမယ့္သူတို႔အတြက္ ခြန္အားေတြျဖစ္ခဲ့တယ္။ ေနာက္ဆံုး လက္ဗလာနဲ႔ စခဲ့တဲ့ဘဝကေန ေအာင္ျမင္မႈအလံကို ပိုင္ပိုင္ႏိုင္ႏိုင္ သူတို႔ ဆုပ္ကိုင္ထားႏိုင္ခဲ့တယ္။

ႀကီးျမတ္တဲ့ သူရဲေကာင္းေတြ၊ ေအာင္ျမင္သူေတြရဲ႕ ဘဝအမ်ားစုက ဆင္းရဲသားဘဝက စခဲ့တယ္။ ကံတရားရဲ႕ ထိုးႏွက္ခ်က္ေအာက္မွာ ႀကံ့ႀကံ့ခံၿပီး ခြန္အားေတြကို သူတို႔စုခဲ့တယ္။

စပိန္စာေရးဆရာ Miguel de Cervantes ေထာင္ထဲမွာ ေရးခဲ့တဲ့ Don Quijote de la Mancha စာအုပ္က နာမည္ေက်ာ္စာအုပ္ျဖစ္ခဲ့တယ္။ အဲဒီတုန္းက ဆင္းရဲလြန္းလို႔ စာေရးဖို႔စကၠဴေတာင္ မဝယ္ႏိုင္ခဲ့ဘဲ သားေရခ်ပ္ေလးေပၚမွာ သူေရးခဲ့တာျဖစ္တယ္။ လူတစ္ခ်ဳိ႕က သူေဌးတစ္ဦးကိုရွာၿပီး သူ႔ကိုကူညီဖို႔ အကူအညီေတာင္းခဲ့ေပမယ့္ သူေဌးက "ဒီလိုလူကို ကူညီဖို႔ ဘုရားသခင္က ကြၽန္ေတာ့္ကိုခြင့္မျပဳခဲ့ဘူး။ သူဆင္းရဲေနမွ ဒီေလာကႀကီး ၾကြယ္ဝမွာျဖစ္တယ္" လို႔ ေျပာခဲ့တယ္။

ဆင္းရဲသားမိသားစု ဒါမွမဟုတ္ ခ်မ္းသာတဲ့မိသားစုက ေပါက္ဖြားလာသူ လူငယ္တစ္ေယာက္မွာ ခိုင္ၿမဲတဲ့ ရည္ရြယ္ခ်က္ပန္းတိုင္ တစ္ခုရွိမယ္ဆိုရင္ ဘယ္လိုအခက္အခဲ၊ ဘယ္လိုလူပုဂၢိဳလ္ကမွ ေရွ႕ဆက္မယ့္ သူ႔ေျခလွမ္းကို မတားႏိုင္ခဲ့ပါဘူး။

ဆင္းရဲဒုကၡက ေပ်ာ့ညံ့သူရဲ႕လမ္းကိုသာ ပိတ္ဆို႔ႏိုင္ခဲ့တယ္။ မိမိကိုယ္ကိုယ္ယံုၾကည္သူ၊ သတၱိရွိသူ၊ ဇဲြရွိသူေတြအတြက္ ဆင္းရဲဒုကၡက သူတို႔ရဲ႕အစြမ္းအစကို ပိုေတာက္ေျပာင္ေစတယ္၊ ဘဝမီးအိမ္ကုိ ထြန္းညႇိေပးတယ္၊ ေရွ႕တိုးမယ့္ ဆံုးျဖတ္ခ်က္နဲ႔ ဇဲြလံု႔လကို ေမာင္းေပးတဲ့ ႏွင္တံျဖစ္ခဲ့တယ္။

Orison Swett Marden က "ဆင္းရဲဒုကၡက အားကစားေလ့က်င့္ခန္းက ကိရိယာေတြနဲ႔တူတယ္။ ကြၽန္ေတာ္တို႔ကို သန္မာေအာင္ ေလ့က်င့္ေပးတယ္။ ဒါေၾကာင့္ဆင္းရဲျခင္းက ကြၽန္ေတာ္တို႔ တာထြက္ေကာင္းေအာင္ ႀကိဳးစားေလ့က်င့္ေပးတဲ့ အေကာင္းဆံုးကိရိယာျဖစ္တယ္" လို႔ ေျပာခဲ့တယ္။

"အခက္အခဲၾကားက လြတ္ေအာင္ ကြၽန္ေတာ္တို႔ ႀကိဳးစားရုန္းကန္တာက ဆင္းရဲျခင္းရဲ႕လြတ္လမ္းျဖစ္သလို ေအာင္ျမင္သူျဖစ္ဖို႔ အေျခခံနည္းတစ္ခုျဖစ္တယ္"

"တကယ္သတိၱရွိသူက ပတ္ဝန္းက်င္ရဲ႕ ထိုးႏွက္မႈခံရေလ ႀကိဳးစားရုန္းကန္ေလျဖစ္တယ္။ အခက္အခဲကို ရင္ဆိုင္ႏိုင္သူ၊ အတားအဆီးကို ေလွာင္ရယ္ႏိုင္သူျဖစ္တယ္။ ဆင္းရဲဒုကၡရဲ႕ ထိုးႏွက္တာခံရေလ သူ႔စိတ္ဆႏၵ၊ အရည္အခ်င္း၊ အင္အားနဲ႔ ဆံုးျဖတ္ခ်က္ေတြ ခိုင္မာေလျဖစ္တယ္။ ဒီလိုလူမ်ဳိးအတြက္ ေရွ႕ဆက္မယ့္ သူ႔ေျခလွမ္းကို ဘယ္လိုကံၾကမၼာ၊ ဘယ္လိုအခက္အခဲကမွ တားဆီးထားႏိုင္မွာ မဟုတ္ပါဘူး"

မူရင္း... The secret of success inspiring ( D-Man ျပဳစုတဲ့ ဝယ္ခဲ့တဲ့စာအုပ္ထဲက ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ခုတစ္ေလာ ဒီစာအုပ္ကိုပဲ ဖတ္ျဖစ္ေနတယ္)

ႏိုင္းႏိုင္းစေန ဘာသာျပန္သည္။

အခက္အခဲေတြက ကိုယ့္ကိုပိုသန္မာႀကံ့ခိုင္ေအာင္.......

တစ္ခါက တယ္လီဖုန္းအင္တာဗ်ဴးမွာ သတင္းေထာက္တစ္ဦးက ကြၽန္ေတာ္ကို ဒီလိုေမးခြန္းတစ္ခု ေမးခဲ့တယ္။

"ဂ်က္လီ... ခင္ဗ်ား ေတာက္ေလွ်ာက္ အဆင္ေျပေအာင္ျမင္လာတဲ့ႏွစ္ေတြ မနည္းေတာ့ဘူး။ ဒီလိုအင္အားေတြရွိေအာင္ ခင္ဗ်ားဘယ္လို စြမ္းေဆာင္ခဲ့သလဲ?"

ၾကည့္ရတာ ဒီသတင္းေထာက္က ကြၽန္ေတာ္ကိုမဗ်ဴးခင္ ေသခ်ာေလ့လာျပင္ဆင္ထားပံုမရဘူး။ ကြၽန္ေတာ္က ေတာက္ေလွ်ာက္အဆင္ေျပလာတာ မဟုတ္ဘူး။ ကြၽန္ေတာ္သူငယ္ခ်င္းေတြက ကြၽန္ေတာ္ကို "အခါတစ္ရာေသၿပီး ျပန္ရွင္တဲ့လူ" လို႔ေတာင္ တင္စားၾကတယ္။

ကြၽန္ေတာ္ငယ္ငယ္ေလးကတည္းက အေဖဆံုးသြားခဲ့တယ္။ အိမ္ကစီးပြါးေရးေတာ္ေတာ္ အဆင္မေျပခဲ့လို႔ သိုင္းသင္တန္းေက်ာင္းထဲ ကြၽန္ေတာ္ဝင္ေရာက္ခဲ့ရတယ္။ အဲဒီကရတဲ့ ေထာက္ပံ့ေၾကးအနည္းငယ္နဲ႔ အိမ္ကို ျပန္ေထာက္ပံ့ခဲ့ရတယ္။ (၁၁)ႏွစ္အရြယ္ကစၿပီး တစ္ႏိုင္ငံလံုးရဲ႕သိုင္းၿပိဳင္ပဲြမွာ ကြၽန္ေတာ္(၅)ႏွစ္ဆက္တိုက္ ပထမဆုရခဲ့တယ္။ (၁၈)ႏွစ္မွာ "ေရွာင္လင္"ကားနဲ႔ ကြၽန္ေတာ္နာမည္စရလာခဲ့တယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ ေနာက္တစ္ႏွစ္မွာ ျမင္းေပၚကျပဳတ္က်လို႔ ကြၽန္ေတာ္ေပါင္က်ဳိးၿပီး ဒုကၡိတျဖစ္လုလုျဖစ္ခဲ့ရတယ္။ အခ်ိန္ယူၿပီးေစာင့္ေနတဲ့ "Once Upon a Time" ဆိုတဲ့ဇာတ္ကား ေရာင္းခ်ခါနီးမွာ ကြၽန္ေတာ္ရဲ႕ထုတ္ေဝသူ အသတ္ခံရျပန္တယ္။ ကြၽန္ေတာ့္ဘဝအရာရာက သုညျပန္ေရာက္သြားခဲ့တယ္။"

"(၂ဝဝ၄)ခုႏွစ္ ဆူနာမီတုန္းက အသက္ေဘးကေန ကြၽန္ေတာ္သီသီေလးလြတ္ခဲ့တယ္။ လိႈင္းလံုးႀကီးေတြ ကြၽန္ေတာ္ေရွ႕မွာ ကြၽန္ေတာ့္ကိုဝါးၿမိဳမတတ္ပါပဲ။ အဲဒီလိုႀကံဳရတဲ့ ခံစားခ်က္နဲ႔ ေၾကာက္ရြံ႔မႈမ်ဳိး လူဘယ္ႏွေယာက္မ်ား ခံစားဖူးမလဲ?"

"ဒီလိုေမးခြန္းမ်ဳိးေမးတဲ့ သတင္းေထာက္ကို ကြၽန္ေတာ္နားလည္ပါတယ္။ သူက ရုပ္ရွင္ထဲက ကြၽန္ေတာ့္ကိုပဲ သိခဲ့ပံုရတယ္။ ကြၽန္ေတာ္က ရုပ္ရွင္ေတြထဲကလို သန္မာႀကံ့ခိုင္တဲ့ေယာက္်ားလို႔ ထင္ခဲ့ပံုရတယ္။ တစ္ကိုယ္လံုး ၾကြက္သားေတြအျပည့္နဲ႔ အင္အားထြားႀကိဳင္းတယ္လို႔လည္း ထင္ခဲ့တယ္ထင္ပါတယ္။ တကယ္ေတာ့ ကြၽန္ေတာ္လည္း သူလိုကိုယ္လို ေသြးသားနဲ႔တည္ေဆာက္ထားတဲ့ သာမန္လူတစ္ေယာက္ပါပဲ။ ၿပီးေတာ့ တစ္ျခားလူေတြထက္ ကြၽန္ေတာ္ပိုေပ်ာ့ညံ့ေသးတယ္။ တစ္ေလာက ကြၽန္ေတာ္ဘုန္းႀကီးဝတ္ေတာထြက္ဖို႔ ႀကိဳးစားခဲ့ေသးတယ္"

"ဒါေပမယ့္ ေရွာင္လင္ဘုန္းႀကီးေက်ာင္း ဆရာေတာ္ေတြက ကြၽန္ေတာ္ကို ဒီလိုလုပ္ခြင့္မေပးဘူး။ ဘုန္းႀကီးဝတ္ ေတာထြက္တိုင္း ျပႆနာေတြကို ေျဖရွင္းလို႔မရႏိုင္ဘူး။ ေနာက္ေတာ့ ဒီထက္တိုးတက္ေအာင္ျမင္ဖို႔ ေဟာ္လိဝွဒ္ကို ကြၽန္ေတာ္ေရာက္လာခဲ့တယ္။ ဆရာေတာ္ကကြၽန္ေတာ္ကို စကားတစ္ခြန္း လက္ေဆာင္ပါးလိုက္တယ္။ အဲဒီစကားက "အခက္အခဲ၊ ျပႆနာေတြက မိမိခြန္အားကို ပိုႀကီးမားသန္မာေအာင္ ကူညီေပးေနပါတယ္" တဲ့"
"အဲဒီစကားက ဘာဆုေပးတဲ့စကားနဲ႔မွ မတူခဲ့ဘူး။ ေဟာ္လိဝွဒ္ေရာက္ၿပီး ဘာတစ္ခုမွ ကြၽန္ေတာ္အဆင္မေျပခဲ့ဘူး။ ထိုင္ဝမ္သူေဌးက ေငြေၾကးေတြကုန္က်ခံၿပီး ကြၽန္ေတာ့္ကို ေၾကာ္ညာေပးခဲ့တယ္။ အခြင့္အေရးေတြ ေပးခဲ့တယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ မာန္တက္ေနတဲ့ေဟာ္လိဝွဒ္က ကြၽန္ေတာ့္လို အရပ္(၁၇ဝ)စင္တီမီတာေတာင္မရွိတဲ့ လူမ်ဳိးျခားကို လက္မခံခဲ့ဘူး။ ကြၽန္ေတာ္သည္းခံခဲ့တယ္။ ဒါရိုက္တာတစ္ဦးက ဇာတ္ညႊန္းစာအုပ္ကို ကြၽန္ေတာ္မ်က္ႏွာတည့္တည့္ ပစ္ထည့္ၿပီး "မင္းက အဂၤလိပ္စာမတတ္လို႔ ဇာတ္ညြန္းမၾကည့္တာလား"လို႔ ေအးစက္စက္ေျပာတဲ့အထိ ကြၽန္ေတာ္ေစာင့္ဆိုင္းခဲ့တယ္။"

"အဲဒီညမွာ ဆရာေတာ္ဆီ ကြၽန္ေတာ္ဖုန္းဆက္ခဲ့တယ္။ ဆရာေတာ္က တည္ၿငိမ္တဲ့အသံနဲ႔ "ဒီႏွစ္ေတြ တကာေတာ္ေတာ္ ပင္ပန္းခဲ့ရၿပီဆိုတာ သိတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ တကာ ေသခ်ာစဥ္းစားၾကည့္။ အခုလက္ရွိမွာ တကာ ပိုသန္မာႀကံ့ခိုင္တာလား? ဒါမွမဟုတ္ အရင္က ပိုသန္မာႀကံ့ခိုင္တာလား?" ဆရာေတာ္အေမးေၾကာင့္ ကြၽန္ေတာ္ခဏေတြေဝသြားတယ္။ ဒီႏွစ္ေတြမွာ ႀကံဳရတဲ့အခက္အခဲေတြက ဟိုးအရင္ႀကံဳခဲ့ရတဲ့ အခက္အခဲေတြနဲ႔စာရင္ ဘာမွမႏိႈင္းသာခဲ့ဘူး။ အရင္ႀကံဳခဲ့ရတဲ့ အခက္အခဲေတြက ကိုယ့္ကိုထြက္ေျပးဖို႔ လြတ္လမ္းေတာင္ မေပးခဲ့ဘူး။ ခုေတာ့ တကယ္ပဲ အခက္အခဲေတြက ကြၽန္ေတာ့္ကို သန္မာေစခဲ့ၿပီ။ ခႏၶာကိုယ္ မသန္မာေသးသည့္တိုင္ ခံႏိုင္ရည္စြမ္းကိုေတာ့ သန္မာသထက္ သန္မာေအာင္ ကြၽန္ေတာ္လုပ္ႏိုင္ခဲ့ပါၿပီ"

အဲဒီကစ အခက္အခဲ၊ ျပႆနာေတြကို ကြၽန္ေတာ္ေၾကာက္မေနေတာ့ဘူး။ ဘာပဲျဖစ္ျဖစ္ "လာစမ္းပါ (welcome)"ဆိုတဲ့ စိတ္ဓာတ္မ်ဳိးကြၽန္ေတာ္ေမြးခဲ့တယ္။ သူငယ္ခ်င္းမိတ္ေဆြေတြက ကြၽန္ေတာ္ကို ရူးသြပ္သူလို႔ဆိုတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ ဒါဟာ အခက္အခဲေတြၾကားမွာ ေလ့က်င့္သင္ယူေနတယ္ဆိုတာ ကြၽန္ေတာ္သိတယ္။

"Hero" ဇာတ္ကားကိုရိုက္တုန္းက မင္းသမီး "Zhang Ziyi" က အေဝဖန္ခံရဆံုးျဖစ္တယ္။ လူတခ်ဳိ႕ရဲ႕ အပယ္ကို ခံခဲ့ရသူျဖစ္တယ္။ သူ႔ကိုၾကည့္ရင္း ဟိုးတစ္ခ်ိန္က ကိုယ့္အျဖစ္ကို ကြၽန္ေတာ္ျပန္ျမင္ေယာင္ခဲ့မိတယ္။ အဲဒီတုန္းက ကြၽန္ေတာ္တဇြတ္ထိုးဆန္တယ္။ စိတ္ထဲက ခံစားခ်က္ကို မ်က္ႏွာေပၚ တင္ျပတတ္တယ္။ ဒါနဲ႔ သူ႔ကို ကြၽန္ေတာ့္ရဲ႕အေတြ႔အႀကံဳေတြ ေျပာျပတယ္။ ေနာက္ေတာ့ တေျဖးေျဖး ကြၽန္ေတာ့္စကားထဲကေန သူေျပာင္းလဲခဲ့ၿပီး သန္မာႀကံ့ခိုင္တဲ့ မင္းသမီးတစ္လက္ျဖစ္လာခဲ့တယ္။

ဒီႏွစ္အေတာအတြင္းမွာ သိုင္းပညာနဲ႔ပတ္သက္တဲ့ စိတ္ကူးတစ္ခု ကြၽန္ေတာ့္မွာရွိတယ္။ အဲဒီစိတ္ကူးကို ပရိသတ္ေတြနဲ႔ ကြၽန္ေတာ္မွ်ေဝခ်င္တယ္။ ဒါေၾကာင့္ လူရွာၿပီး ကြၽန္ေတာ္ဇာတ္ညြန္းေရးေစခဲ့တယ္။ ရုပ္ရွင္ဇာတ္ကားကို "Tibetan Monk in New York" လို႔ ေပးခဲ့တယ္။ ဇာတ္ကားနာမည္ကို ထုတ္ေဝသူေတာ္ေတာ္မ်ားမ်ားက စိတ္ဝင္စားၾကတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ ဇာတ္ညႊန္းၾကည့္ၿပီး သူတို႔ မရိုက္ရဲၾကဘူး။ တိုက္ခိုက္ခန္းေတြ နည္းလို႔ တြက္ေခ်ကိုက္မွာမဟုတ္ဘူးလို႔ ေျပာၾကတယ္။ ထုတ္ေဝသူမရွိလို႔ ည ည ကြၽန္ေတာ္အိပ္မေပ်ာ္ခဲ့ဘူး။ ေနာက္ဆံုး မတတ္ႏိုင္တဲ့အဆံုး ကိုယ္တိုင္ေငြထုတ္ၿပီးရိုက္ဖို႔ ျပင္သစ္က ဒါရိုက္တာ Luc Bessonကို ကြၽန္ေတာ္သြားရွာခဲ့တယ္။ ရိုက္ၿပီးတဲ့ေနာက္ ဇာတ္ကားကို ကြၽန္ေတာ္ၾကည့္တယ္။ ေရွ႕ပိုင္း မိနစ္(၉ဝ)က သပ္ရပ္ေခ်ာေမြ႔ေနေပမယ့္ ေနာက္ပိုင္းမိနစ္(၃ဝ)က ထံုးစံအတိုင္း တိုက္ခိုက္ခန္းေတြပဲျဖစ္တယ္။ ေနာက္ပိုင္းကို ျပန္ျပင္ရုိက္မယ္လို႔ ကြၽန္ေတာ္ေျပာေတာ့ လူေတြက ကြၽန္ေတာ္ကိုရူးၿပီလို႔ ေျပာၾကတယ္။ ေနာက္ပိုင္းကိုျပင္ရင္ ကိုယ့္ကိုယ္ကို သတ္ေသတာနဲ႔ အတူတူပဲလို႔ေျပာတယ္။ ဒါရိုက္တာ Luc Besson လည္း ကြၽန္ေတာ့္ကို တအံ့တၾသေမးတယ္။ "ပရိသတ္ေတြကို ခင္ဗ်ားစိတ္ဆိုးေစခ်င္တာလား?"တဲ့။ ကြၽန္ေတာ္က "တစ္ေခါက္ေလာက္ေတာ့ စမ္းၾကည့္လိုက္မယ္ေလ" လို႔ပဲ ေျဖခဲ့တယ္။

တကယ္တမ္းက်ေတာ့ ရံုမတင္ခင္ကတည္းက အဲဒီဇာတ္ကားကို ရုပ္ရွင္ပညာရွင္တခ်ဳိ႕နဲ႔ သတင္းသမားတခ်ဳိ႕က သတိထားႏွင့္ၿပီးသားပါ။ ေနာက္ေတာ့ "Fearless"ဇာတ္ကား ဆက္တိုက္ထြက္လာေတာ့မွ လူေတြက "ေအာ္.. တကယ္ေတာ့ ဂ်က္လီက တိုက္ခိုက္တဲ့စက္ရုပ္ မဟုတ္ဘူး" ဆိုတာကို တေျဖးေျဖး နားလည္လာၾကတယ္။ တရုတ္သိုင္းပညာထဲမွာ တိုက္ဖုိ႔ခိုက္ဖို႔အျပင္ နက္႐ႈိင္းေျပာင္ေျမာက္တဲ့ အႏုပညာလည္း ရွိေသးပါလားဆိုတာ လူေတြသိခဲ့ၾကတယ္။

ကြၽန္ေတာ္ရဲ႕ ဦးတည္ခ်က္က ဒါပါပဲ။ ရင္ထဲက ခံစားခ်က္ကိုလည္း ခ်ျပခ်င္တယ္၊ လက္မွတ္လည္း အေရာင္းျမႇင့္ရမယ္ဆိုတဲ့ကိစၥက ေတာ္ေတာ္ေလး ခက္ခဲပါတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ ကြၽန္ေတာ္သိတယ္။ အခက္အခဲဆိုတာ အခ်ိန္တန္ရင္ၿပီးသြားတာပဲ။ အဲဒီအခက္အခဲကို ျဖတ္ေက်ာ္ဖူးတဲ့လူမွ သူေလွ်ာက္ရာလမ္းတစ္ေလွ်ာက္ ပိုသန္မာအင္အားႀကီးၿပီး အေကာင္းကိုပိုျမင္တတ္မယ္ဆိုတာ ကြၽန္ေတာ္ယံုၾကည္ပါတယ္။