Monday, October 12, 2009
Realisations
Recalling from the story of Jackie Chan's Shinjuku Incident, actually we humans only need some food and a proper shelter to survive. We toil because we have to feed ourselves.
However, as we grow in incomes, we develop new wants - and through habits, they become needs. This is when discontent occur, this is when we forget our most basic aim of doing everything. And this is when we get unduly stressed over 'unimportant' things, and this is when we keep inventing problems once we solved the ones life gave us.
Actually, having a mundane family life, where everyone has a healthy body, living in contentment, that is the most important. Because it is so 'mundane' and seems so 'normal', we often take it for granted, and instead, we focus on what we not have, rather than what we always had.
Go for your dreams, go for your lofty aims. But at the end of the day, even if you don't get them, count your blessings - your family members' 'mundane' health, your loved ones' 'normal' behaviours.
At this age, it seems that they will go for forever. But trust me, they will go one by one, including our own. So let me remind myself to count my blessings - lofty targets, whether I achieve them, is not as important, as long as the 'mundane' stuff hang on as long as possible.
Often, it just takes a little deviation from the 'mundane' to make us realise this. Please, don't wait until that to occur. It's gonna be too late.
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