My little nephew pouted and
complained that his friends have all gone to Legoland and he hasn’t.
Have you ever wondered why we’re
always unhappy, dissatisfied with life?
Like
my nephew, we compare. We compare and we
desire what we don’t have and not see what we already have, not love what we have
and naturally, not love ourselves.
If you don’t already know, the
truth to happiness is right in front of you...yet we are too blind to see. The truth is we are all different. We possess different strengths, abilities, the
material and the non-material. We are
different, but the same. No one is
better than the other or should be judged to be better than others because…in
which case, there’s really no point in comparing.
You know, seeing what we don’t have, force us to live in the past and future,
while appreciating what we have, is being in the present and well, simply
living life.
Now, back to my nephew, so, how do
I explain to a little kid “to appreciate what he has”? I guess…in the simplest
way possible. I told him he has hundreds of Transformers while others may have few
or none. He has a wall-full of car
stickers which others may not have. The
shirt he’s wearing. His cartoon DVDs. His favorite home-made char siew. But more
importantly, he has me, his parents, and his grandma that he can be assured no
one will ever have. He then looked at me
and said, “I know” and never brought up Legoland ever again.
