Should I Really Believe in Feng Shui?

If I talk about Feng Shui or chinese zodiac (shio), some people may say something like this, “Ah,,,I don’t believe in it! I don’t believe in prophet/ prophecy!” Or, “My religion teaches me better not to believe this kind of thing.”

So, should we believe in Feng Shui?

OK, to answer this, I have to use some Hong Shui information too; but what’s the different of Hong Shui and Feng Shui? Well, I can’t answer it with a specific way.

Generally, Hong Shui is a knowledge about energies and elements in our environment. For example, plants are symbolized as wood, river as water, and so on. It’s also a knowledge about the effects of those power and how to manage those.

Not so different with Feng Shui, generally it’s also about energy, elements, etc but it’s more about how to control those energies. Yes, the effects of the power also can be explained in here.

So, I’m not saying that those are different, but those are connected! For what reason? Of course to be able to give hopes of good prosperities, lucks, etc; generally are to bring a better future, maybe not for those who has a dream as a loser I think.

I have a story, my friend’s experience! Yes, true story I must say, so I don’t make up anything in here; so read carefully if you want to understand:

In her childhood days, her dad got a good job as an office-assistant in a pretty big company in that time. Even though their financial wasn’t really good, but at least they could eat something and has a place to live.

One day, her parents decided to renovated their house, and the structure hasn’t changed until now. Their kitchen is placed beside the bathroom and washroom; and as people entered their house, people can see their kitchen from the front door.

So, what happened next after they renovated their house?

Her dad lose his job because the company thought, he was the culprit of a huge credits in the company budget. They thought he used the money without asking their permissions; and also the problem was, there was no new stuffs in my friend’s house so where were these credits came from? There could be many possibilities, but it was clear that his dad got FIRED!

That wasn’t the only problem, her dad’s bank account received a high amount of bills with huge balance on it. It seemed someone hacked his credit card; and they become stressed up because someone HACKED their credit card and left a HUGE amount of HIGH BILLS!

And the third problem was, they can’t save any money! Until now, they only can earn some money just to eat something; even though if they earn more, but there’s always one or more problems that force them to spend the money. Yes, they CAN’T SAVE ANY! Even her sister cheated her by stealing some of her money that she got from her job.

End of the story, that’s so horrible! You may ask me, “What happened? What’s wrong with it?” But I also have another story.

Before my family bought this house, and before this house is renovated, this house was also structured the same as my friend’s house; the bathroom was beside the kitchen! And in that time, the owner had a financial problem until they made some changes.

They put a partition between the bathroom and the kitchen, so both were separated from each other. To go to one of the side, they had to take a different way.

Oh yes, I almost forgot to tell that their kitchen is far away in the back of the house. It’s no way people can see it from the front door!

What happened next? You should have guessed it!

The financial problem was gone, they were able to earn a lot more money! Even in the end they were able to buy a better house, and sold that house to my family. How prosper were they!

What happened really was?

It’s simple to answer, really! Even you can guess it by yourself if you see it according to Hong Shui.

Let’s see here, what’s the basic element of the kitchen? Simple, it’s fire and the bathroom must be water! Who can take a bath using fire not water, or cook using water not fire??? Well probably if you boil something, but don’t you still use fire to combust it?

Water and fire are opposed from each other, it’s natural! So, kitchen shouldn’t be placed near the bathroom or whatever we do is useless and meaningless. We can’t achieve and prosperity or success if we live in a place like this; but if we don’t want to change it or renovate it, using a little knowledge of Feng Shui we can just separate it with a partition. It’s a lot cheaper and means a lot!

What if people can see our kitchen straightly from the front door? Kitchen can be symbolized as our work and effort, so if people can see us just from the front door; that means the results of our work can be easily stolen/ loosen! Yes, and in the end we can’t save any money! Again to trick this up, we can just use a partition and leave a small path to make people still can go through it to the kitchen; but can’t see it from the front door.

From those examples, do you still don’t believe in Feng Shui? It’s up to you to decide actually, it’s not the matter that I force you to know; but believe it or not many people have both good and bad experience that can be explained only using Feng Shui and Hong Shui terms.

Yes, it may also sounds stupid; “what can we steal from the kitchen?” for example. Well, but it’s not like my hope is 100% in those things, I also pray to the God and have faith in religious things; since I also not an atheism. But still, believe it or not those are true!

Generally they are not prophecy or fortune telling like what palmistry are used for. It’s most like hope bringer or future prediction; but don’t be really controlled by it! You can believe in it, you can love it, you can have faith in it; it’s up to you but don’t be too fanatic!