a world outside our own

every single day we were busy dealing with our daily lives, working, studying, managing our own households, we are considered very lucky to be here in a country like Malaysia even though it was not some great country but we should be thankful it wasnt one of the worst in the world...

almost everyone here has basic necessity, food, clothes and shelter...worst of all, we always complained that we do not have enough money to spend, so much homework to do, so many exams to cope with, no car to drive, not enough entertainment, no new places to hang out, this place sucks that place sucks, college not good enough, malaysia not good enough, etc....well, those were the words that were always clinging to my mouth...well, not until i saw the documentary that were documenting harsh living enviroment faced by the egyptians...but of course it wasnt the only country that the citizens struggles for their daily life for basic living needs...

throughout the documentary, all i could feel and see was grievances, their strong will to live, their never dying determination to get through each day...each day for them is a whole new battle and some were already out there working so hard to earn a living at such a young age and till the end of their lives...but they never complain about anything that they are coping with each day, instead, they were determined to face any obstacle...and at such a young age, i think they had learned the truth of living...and at such a young age, i think their understanding of what life is all about surpasses those who lives in luxury for a hundred years where it only took them as little as 7 years to find out...

after that documentary, all my desire in my heart were pushed aside...i suddenly felt that theres nothing more i need in my life because i already have what i needed...even to a point, i felt that all our goals in life, ambitions and dreams we had means nothing at all...we wanna be millionaires, have a happy family, live a luxury and happy life...so what?....even that one day we were to obtained everything we wanted, the day we die, we die the way those people died that owned nothing in life...we are basically the same as they were...we came to this world with nothing and we leave this world leaving everything behind...

still, to many of us, possessions is what makes life meaningful to us in its own unique way to each and every one of us...just that sometimes, dont be too stubborn in life...learning to let go sometimes and slowing down sometimes and realising that we actually had what we needed is not a bad thing at all...remember that we are much luckier than millions out there...