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IF YOU THINK LIFE IS BAD
If you think your life is bad, think again!!!
Have you ever, at any one time, had the feeling that life is
bad, real bad, and you wish you were in another situation?
You find life make things difficult for you, everything seems to
go wrong...
Read the following story... it may change your views about
life:-
After a conversation with one of my friends, he told me despite
taking 2 jobs, he brings back barely above 1K per month, he is happy as
he is. I wonder how he can be as happy as he is considering he has to
skimp his life with the low pay to support a pair of old parents, in-laws,
a wife, 2 daughters and the many bills of a household.
He explained that it was through one incident that he saw in
India that happened a few years ago when he was really feeling low and
touring India after a major setback.
He said that right in front of his very eyes, he saw an Indian
motherchop off her child's right hand with a chopper.
The helplessness in the mother's eyes, the scream of pain from
the innocent 4 year old child haunted him until today.
You may ask why did the mother do so; had the child been
naughty, had the child's hand been infected?? No, it was done for two
simple words - - -TO BEG! The desperate mother deliberately caused
the child to be handicapped so that the child could go out to the streets to
beg.
Taken aback by the scene, he dropped a piece of bread he was
eating half-way. And almost instantly, a flock of 5 or 6 children
swamped towards this small piece of bread which was covered with sand,
robbing bits from one another. The natural reaction of hunger.
Stricken by the happenings, he instructed his guide to drive him
to the nearest bakery. He arrived at two bakeries and bought every
single loaf of bread he found in the bakeries. The owner was dumbfounded but
willingly sold everything. He spent less than $100 to obtain
about 400 loaves of bread (this is less than $0.25 per loaf) and spent another $100
to get daily necessities.
Off he went in the truck full of bread into the streets. As he
distributed the bread and necessities to the children (mostly
handicapped) and a few adults, he received cheers and bows from
these unfortunate.
For the first time in his life he wondered how people can give
up their dignity for a loaf of bread which cost less than $0.25.
He began to tell himself how fortunate he is. How fortunate he
is to be able to have a complete body, have a job, have a family,
have the chance to complain what food is nice and what isn't, have the
chance to be clothed, have the many things that these people in front of
him are deprived of...
Now I begin to think and feel it, too! Was my life really that
bad? Perhaps... no, I should not feel bad at all... What about you?
Maybe the next time you think you are, think about the child who
lost one hand to beg on the streets.
"Contentment is not the fulfilment of what you want, it is the
realization of how much you already have."
When the door of happiness closes, another opens, but often
times we look so long at the closed door that we don't see the one which
has been opened for us.
It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it,
but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing
until it arrives.