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Life is never a bed of roses. There are ups and downs in life that we have to go thru’. So when you come across this stage, where you will see nothing seems to turn out right, you are not the only one. There are others who are worst.
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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 sucks, life sucks, everything seems to
go wrong... Read the following story... it may change
your views about life:
　
After a conversation with one of my friends, he told
me 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
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.