Of Legoland...

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.