Contentment...
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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 uninteresting, life is
dull, everything seems
to go wrong.
Read the following story... it may change your views about life.
A friend said despite taking 2 jobs, he brings back barely above 1K per
month, but 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 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 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. -
I think i should really reflect upon myself...Originally posted by Devil1976: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 uninteresting, life is
dull, everything seems
to go wrong.
Read the following story... it may change your views about life.
A friend said despite taking 2 jobs, he brings back barely above 1K per
month, but 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 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 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.
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You find life make things difficult for you, work uninteresting, life is
All the bloody time Devil, and there will be nothing I can do about it, because afterall this is me, it is my life. Soon I will walk into resteraunts and everyone will go silent with fear, because by then my evil aura will become that potent.
dull, everything seems
to go wrong. -
Go wrong ... you want it is way not mean it will be ...Originally posted by men_@_arms:All the bloody time Devil, and there will be nothing I can do about it, because afterall this is me, it is my life. Soon I will walk into resteraunts and everyone will go silent with fear, because by then my evil aura will become that potent. -
If you think that life can go against people, think of yourself going against life? For each can only stand in the path of the others, when it choose to be....Originally posted by men_@_arms:All the bloody time Devil, and there will be nothing I can do about it, because afterall this is me, it is my life. Soon I will walk into resteraunts and everyone will go silent with fear, because by then my evil aura will become that potent.
If my mentality was like yours... I won't have become a Devil.... I would have probably be DEAD by now.... I'm not afraid to die. But doesn't mean that I should be an idiot and just end my life like that...
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I shall consider your words, although they make no sense to me.
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Not surprised at all. Alot of things ain't suppose to make much sense until specific points of your life?Originally posted by men_@_arms:I shall consider your words, although they make no sense to me. -
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