Don't take life for granted

This quote is really something to think about.
People today always take life for granted. Besides not appreciating life, we always complain about the imperfections in our everyday lives. Minor argument with boyfriend, lost of handphone, late for classes etc are something so trivial and yet they are being treated seriously, in a bad way. We always complain and think how bad our lives are; we also used to comparing our lives to people in better condition. Having a property of three billion is not enough because your friend had inherited three hundred billion from his father? Having more than two meals a day with vegetables only is terrible because others have five meals of meat daily?

Why not we look at another side and compare our moderate lives with those beggars on the street, homeless men under the bridge and abandoned old parents in the old folks' home? Remember, no matter how many trillion people are having better lives than you do, there are many more who are suffering from drought, hunger, diseasesa, poverty, illiteracy, natural disasters and others. How lucky you are comparing with these unfortunates?! After all, we do not know how much successful and rich people had gone throught before achieving what they are having now. Wealth does not grow on trees, people work for it. If we are so envious of these successful people, why not we stop blaming every little problem in life and strive toward our goal instead?

'It's really nice to wake up in the morning realizing that God has given you another day to live'. Even the fact that you are still surviving is something to be thankful of. Don't take life for granted, be grateful. Today is the tomorrow someone on the sick bay wishes for......... but never arrives.