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Contentment
Sunday, July 15, 2007 @1:40 AM


found this meaningful sent by my fren thru email..

> >CONTENTMENT
> >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 will definitely 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 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.
> >
> >Please send this message to those people who mean something to you, to
> >those who have touched your life in one way or another, to those who
> >make you smile when you really need it, to those that make you see the
> >brighter side of things when you are really down, to those who you want
> >to let them know that you appreciate their friendship.
> >

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