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       Be Content About Your Life
   DIR By: Admin
       Date: June 12, 2013, 11:04 pm
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       Wonder if any of you ever had the feeling that life is bad, real
       bad,…and you wish you were in another situation. Do you find
       that life seems to make things difficult for you, work sucks,
       life sucks, everything seems to go wrong….
       It was not until yesterday that I totally changed my views about
       life; after a conversation with one of my friends.
       He told me despite taking 2 jobs, and bringing back barely above
       1K per month, he is happy as he is. I wonder how he can be as
       happy as he is now, considering that he has to skimp his life
       with the low pay to support a pair of old-age parents, in-laws,
       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
       was touring India after a major setback. He said that right in
       front of his very eyes, he saw an Indian mother chopped off her
       child’s right hand with a chopper. The helplessness in the
       mother’s eyes, the scream of the pain from the innocent 4 years
       old child haunted him until today. You may ask why did the
       mother do so, has the child been naughty, was the child’s hand
       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 can go out to the streets to beg. I cannot accept how
       this could happen, but it really did, just in another part of
       the world which I don’t see.
       Taken aback by the scene, he dropped a small piece of bread he
       was eating half-way. And almost instantly, flock of 5 or 6
       children swamp towards this small piece of bread which was then
       covered with sand, robbing of bits from one another. The natural
       reaction of hunger. Striken 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 is dumbfolded , but willing sold everything. He spent
       less than $100 to obtain about 400 loaf of bread (this is less
       than $0.25/per loaf) and spend 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
       life he wonder how people can give up their dignity for a loaf
       of bread which cost less than $0.25. He began to ask himself how
       fortunate he is as a Singaporean. How fortunate he to be able to
       have a complete body, have a job, have a family, have the chance
       to complain what food is nice what isn’t, 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,… it should not be 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.
       Story By Wendy Tan
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