Sunday, January 31, 2010

Contentment(got this from an email)

CONTENTMENT

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, work sucks, life sucks, 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 mother chop

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 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 nice, 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 fulfillment 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.


The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they

just make the most of everything that comes along their way.

The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past,you can't
go on well in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches.

Monday, January 18, 2010

a picture is worth a thousand words.xD

nth need to be said much.

finally update.hahahahha

some funny shit that i got from the chive.xD BTW happy new year even though a bit late.lazy write much.xD