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I had a gentle knock by a reversing car on fri evening. Shd be alright cos im still alive and kicking and writing this entry now. It can consider hit and run? Cos the driver left drove off without realising the gentle knock on me.
Im offered with a confirmation. Still considering whether i wanna to accept..
Im offered with a confirmation. Still considering whether i wanna to accept..
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荣儿
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:
one guy 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.....
Thanks =)
*hugs*
Cheers`*
荣儿