Friday, December 19, 2008

the journey up the hill

life is about improvements.
they say "i complain that i have no shoes, until i see someone with no feet"
moral of the story? to be grateful for what you have.
positive thoughts positive thoughts positive thoughts.
look at what i have and not what i dont have!
and be grateful for having a few pairs of shoes plus feet than i can walk and jump around.

i am grateful. i really am.
grateful that im alive when jo ann has been telling me so many people died in limkokwing.
grateful that i once had such a great time when others doesnt even experiece things like this befre.
grateful i have food water and shelter.
grateful that i hav such loving and cool parents.
grateful that i have stick skinny figure when others get bulimia and anorexia trying to slim down when they actually wanna be skinnier than me.
grateful that even if i hav to wear thick glasses, at least im not blind.
grateful for having so many friends around me giving me support and company that mean so much to me.
grateful for alot alot of things.

but somehow, a part in me says a slightly different story.

if a guy is born without legs. and gotten a leg implant donated to him or something when he's 20.he got a new leg.
on the other hand, another guy got involved in an accident and lost a leg at age 20 too. he got 1 leg left on him.

both have 1 leg. who would you rather be?

the one who should be happy and grateful that at least he get to walk and jump for the first 20 years of his life? instead of mourning on how to survive the rest of his life with only 1 leg left.
or the one that should be happy and grateful to receive a new leg? instead of mourning on how unfair god is to him when everybody is born with legs except him.

for me i'd rather be the one born without legs and gained a leg instead of losing one. cause life is about improvements. sometimes you cant control the future. you cant control what is going to happen next. but the least you can do is to control your own life. cause its your life, you live it your way.

i am my own competition. if i am capable of getting myself a new car, and its a myvi. i dont care if i live in a world where everybody else around me drives a Mercedes or a BMW. what i know is, the next car that i'm going to get is not a kancil. it need not be a BMW, but it will be something better than a myvi.
or should i look at poeple with motocycles and be grateful for having te chance to own a car at all?

its not about being better than the people around me. its about being better than who i was back then.

sooooooooooo many people around me said i've changed. close friends i had since secondary. im not the me back then compared to the me right now. i do hope i've changed for the better, being a better person than the trash i was back then. somehow i realized i've gotten weaker.

i dont mind if i get a C for my grades. cause i wont feel the least grateful at all that i did not fail. with that i will always be stuck with a C grade feeling happy everyday cause i did not fail. no improvements at all. i am my own competition and i wont bother competing myself with the others. i will make sure the next grade i get would be better than a C. either remain a C, or getting a C+ is an improvement. and make sure i get a B and an A in time.

i dont care if my girlfriends get rich ass boyfriends that showers them with handphones, cars , prada and expensive food every meal.
i dont care if they have some guy who treats them like princesses.
i dont care if i dont earn alot of money compared to the people around me.
i dont care if im born with high cholesterol when everybody around me gets to eat everything they want, anything they want at their own will. (tho my hormones makes me depress at times)
i dont care if they have a great job and a great life.
i dont care if this friend gets really famous on tv and advertisements.
i dont care if the people around me are born with the perfect figure, pretty face, great personality likable to every bug around them. i wanna look back to a picture of me 4 years ago and say to myself, wow i've gotten so much prettier compared to the me back then, dark, skinny with short hair and braces.
i dont care even if some friend has better fashion sense than i do.

cause if i keep comparing, it will never end. how could anybody be happy? that includes comparing myself with the people worse than me. not that i dont care if a girlfriend lost her dad. i will help her in many ways that i can to improve her life in other ways, like giving her company, going to the movies with her, a place where she use to go with her dad, or something like that. but i wont be comparing.
the only thing that i'll be comparing, is to compare me to myself. all i care is improvements on myself and my life. i want to move further up a notch to who i am, what i am and where i am right now.

i dont mind not being the 100% as long as the percentage is the same or slightly higher, than the percentage the day before. and i will not allow myself to fall down the hill. i'll either remain on that spot till i regain my strenght and continue my journey up. a journey up the hill where the tip is where i rest in peace, knowing that i have became a better person than the person i was the day before.

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