Question:
At this present stage of your life, have you ever tell yourself that you are already contented to the things that you have in your life?
Why and why not?
Have you ever assessed yourself if you are really contented?
Have you ever saw, felt or heard something that made you realized about some things in life that we have to be contented of?
January 21, 2009, a woman who looks neat and who seems to have enough of everything walk inside the office where I am currently an OJT. The kind woman asked, “Sir baka pwede naman po na makapag-aral ‘yung kasama ko?”, then my boss said, “nasan po ba? Kasama niyo po ba?”. Then the woman called the person she was pertaining to. She went to our office with a young man who has the opposite definition of her. You can easily tell that he doesn’t own a billion dollar bucks, even a thousand bucks, you can easily tell that the guy doesn’t have that enough money to buy for his needs, even to support his studies. Then the woman said, “Mag-uuling lang po kasi sila e, hindi naman sa kanila ‘yung pinagkukuhanan kaya mahirap na din…”… “Okay lang po ba kung 2nd year lang ang natapos? 2nd year lang po kasi natapos niya, wala po kasing pang-aral. Kaya po nagpunta kami dito para maipasok po siya.”. My boss said, “Okay lang po ‘yun, maipasok po sa welding.”, then the woman continued, telling about the young man’s life; on how hard it was to be a so called “Mag-uuling”… - a person who gets charcoal or coal/firewood in able to support their daily needs.
Sometimes, people are not contented to the things that they already have. They are not contented to the things that they thought wasn’t much for them. They want so much, when other person gets less.
Others will get the chance to study in an exclusive school, yet they refused to; yet they didn’t appreciate the effort of their parents to earn money for their tuition fees.
You know what, we really need other people for us to realize some things that we care less, we need others to tell them or to make us appreciate the things that we have in life and that we need someone to explain us the value of things in life.
We have a lot of things to appreciate, it takes more time to think about our material needs, but it only took a couple of second to appreciate what we already have in our lives.
Realize it and learn.
