Humility as its best

God gave me a nudge last week – twice . I think He was telling me something – BE THANKFUL with what u have. Yeah..for the past few weeks, I’ve been assessing myself- trying to compare my past achievements & failures (personal/financial..life etc). Thinking about it while in the lrt everyday last week. But I learnt something two days in a row. The first day, I was a little bit upset with the things going on with my life – the undone things that I’m supposed to accomplish by now, so I was lecturing myself to be more motivated, discipline etc. As I was waiting for the train, a young couple stood nearby me, with two lovely little girls, one about 2 years old while the other is about 1 year old. Both were laughing and grinning – excited waiting to embark the lrt. I smiled- how nice to be a kid again- carefree life ,nothing matters. But then I saw something about the 2 year old girl that makes me insaf there and then. The 2 year old girl was limping, and her right hand barely can move. She’s half paralyze. And yet..she continued with her life happily. I respect the parents for the way they treated the kid- normal just like the other one. In the train, she sat right next to me. I smiled at her, and she smiled back while eating her twisties that her mom gave her. Eating with her left hand and kicking her left leg happily. When she wanted to disembark the train at KL sentral with her parents, she turned to me and said..bye-bye acik..Cute giler.. Lantak ah dia panggil I mak cik..if she calls me nenek pun I wouldn’t mind at that point of time. But that doesn’t entitled anyone else to call me nenek ahh..Lesson learnt, she less than perfect, but yet she continues with her life happily. Need to be strong in life.

2nd incident:
The second incident, happened right at the very next day. I saw a paralysed man on his wheel chair in the lrt. He was a kerepek seller. At his feet there was a signage saying, “Bantulah org cacat ini, RM1 utk 1 bungkus kerepek”. He did not beg for money, but instead he was smiling to everyone who stepped into the train and wished them good morning. I was nearly in tears. There he is trying to survive selling kerepek, and here I am, grumbling about the things that happened in my life. I have a wonderful famly, good job and great circle of friends but yet I still grumble on certain things which is not perfect in my life. Forget it, not going to elaborate what I grumble about..haha. Anyway, there and then I was thankful for all the good things that happened to me.

Another touching thing happened in the lrt. It seemed that I was not the only who was touched to see the man. I was the third person in the lrt to donate a small sum of money to that man. None of us sampai hati to take any thing from him although he asked us to take the kerepek after donating to him. So, who said Malaysians are hati batu and stingy.? Mind you, the Chinese girl who was next to me also donated some money to him. The story ended when the man disembark at the Masjid Jamek lrt, a young man helped to push his wheel chair out while another mak cik and her family eagerly disembark to buy some kerepek for him. Rezeki di waktu pagi.

So lessons learnt: Always be thankful with what you have. But there is always room for improvement. If u are not in satisfied with how your life goes, always remember, there is always someone in worse condition than u. Always be humble and don’t grumble too much..cepat tua…haha.