Money, is not a form of happiness, or may I say, the only
key that leads to happiness. It has always been a debate between love and
money. Which from between them should be made as a priority?
Technically, even to make it to a logical term, it’s
incredibly impossible to survive in this era of revolution where money is
important for financial issues be it house rentals, food and beverages or as
simple as a ticket to the opera –if you are broke. Or willingly to say to
yourself you do not need money to be happy.
Nothing serious about this, but for the past 2 months of
summer break, it’s mind breaking to be seeing things differently about the
society that we live today. It’s heart-breaking, amusing and leaves you with
full gratitude of what you have as a person full.
To be honest, I always believed that the older you get, the
more fair life becomes to you because all the hardworking efforts are finally
payed back. The hardships we face, for sure, it’ll somehow lead to a happy
ending in the end. But I was wrong at some point. No, not everyone has a happy
ending.
And when I say happy ending, it means specifically both
balance of love and money. No lack between either both of them at all.
And by the time I finish writing this, my goal is to make us
all realize that there’s nothing to feel lack of for what we have and most
importantly,
Is the reason why we should keep our happiness moderate.
Especially for us teenagers who has parents to financially
support us, does not have physical problems, has the brain to think
differentiating between the right and wrong plus is still young ready to face
the world we live today.
I know it’s sentimental to be bringing such things to the
case, but don’t you ever wonder why is it you that gets everything at such a
young age when there’s older people who spent years to even have that –and
maybe they didn’t at all.
What do you feel when you’re taking out your phone from your
handbag and noticed an old man with rugged dirty clothes looking at you? What
do you feel when you walk across the streets to see people your age singing to
get money to only get the amount you have in your wallet? What do you feel when
you’re driving comfortably in a car fully air-conditioned to see a father
carrying his wife and 2 kids behind his back on his motorcycle?
That old man staring at you when you were taking out your
phone was with his family. But he was completely focused you can see him
pitying himself on how he had spent years living to only have a much cheaper
phone than yours. Those people who were singing on the streets to get money
didn’t hesitate to see people passing back and forth without giving a single
cent. The father carrying his family on the motorcycle tried his best to take
the ride slow so his wife would be able to hold their children firmly between
them.
You see, money is not the key to happiness, but with money
this means the world tends to separate between the wealthy and poor to an
extent it’s simply unfair even to myself who thinks as people age, they deserve
every happiness they should get. Face the fact. Without money life is hard and
the reality we live in today proves it all.
If you can be able to access this entry then no doubt, that
you should appreciate what you have.
I always have been told to not trust strangers to a point of
not making a single eye contact to them at all because like they say, this
country is full of bad people. People look down on beggars who sells tissues
patiently approaching each table in hope to be given money. Foreigners from
Bangladesh, China, Indonesia, Myanmar, Philippines or Thailand who come to
Malaysia to work are often being blamed for what causes violence be it rape,
snatching, robbery or murder.
You know, lending some extra money to those who deserve it
more than anyone else is the best possible feeling or achievement you can get.
If you can’t then at least change your perspective of what society threatens
you to avoid.
Let me tell you one thing for sure. A lot of people who are
usually categorized as ‘dangerous-people’ are actually great and patient
individuals you can ever see real life.
Starting with the beggars who come to your table in a
restaurant selling some stuff from tissues, to the all kinds of food. Can you
actually imagine them all day long doing the same routine of asking for money
with the things they sell without shame? To only receive shook heads and such
little money?
True, once it becomes a routine they don’t feel shy at all but if
we say these people are finding alternatives to get faster money and do not
deserve your sympathy, even the laziest people would not become a beggar. It’s
all a waste of energy, might as well be robbing or snatching someone’s handbag
etc. But they didn’t, didn’t they?
How about those Bangladesh people building concretes and
concretes of almost every building in our city? Even if you’re a body builder,
tell me if you can even beat those workers on construction management? They are
those people who had made contribution for our country be it through their
inspiration of having a better family finance as well as having us upgraded. Or
more exciting, who on earth drives a 3 tan lorry in the middle of the city and
is able to break without hitting any other car when the momentum itself is hard
to control?
Well, FYI, that uneducated individual who people have been
looking down upon is the driver of the vehicle you will never even be able to
ace in driving without accidents. *flips hair from the truck*
No joke, don’t we all ever wonder how possible it was for
all these people to work this hard and yet receive blames and faults to what
that might had caused the violence in today’s news?
As a girl, yeah, the warnings of being cautious of wherever
I tend to socialize with strangers is the first thing to be briefed for nearly
hundreds of times by my parents. We all get it, don’t talk to strangers.
You see, sometimes, try, to once in a while not take that
perception of negativity to every worker you meet. Not all humans have dirty
hearts to hurt you. It’s never wrong to lend people your beautiful smile even
when you don’t know them –but of course only to those who you are sure they
aren’t thinking you’re flirting or anything like wait no, not that kind of
thing.
I remembered staring at the car washers on how clean they
tend to wipe every inch of my car –I understand that as a female driver usually
people hardly anticipate that you really have your eyes focused on what they do
to your car. Busy trying to look at behind the wheeler and rear ends of the
doors, one of them passed on a newspaper for me to read –probably thinking I
was bored waiting. I laughed right the second but you know the thing is, don’t
you ever admire how hard they work under the hot sun for 15 minutes to only get
7 MYR?
They’re not young as you are, but the energy they have is so
much they could probably attend 4 lectures straight in a row without sleeping.
Every bend of body to polish the tyres, every second of heat they had to bear,
every sweat washed away by the high flow water from the pipe to your car, for
just a small amount of money?
I know it was never wrong to give extra credits. The thing
is, never did they want you to pay more even when it’s clear they were exhausted
after washing several cars straight.
My point is, if you look physically, they look like
kidnappers. Honestly, they do. I admit I felt creeped out sometimes. But always
be smart and initiate whatever their acts were. It’s more to a gentle gesture
of tiredness and serenity. Better, when they ask how your day was etc –not detail
questions in particular.
Don’t you ever wonder why people always complain that our
country is never much of a friendly one where workers would greet you at the
fuel station like America etc? And that same person is annoyed with foreigner workers
smiling and very reluctantly to fill in the petrol for you? He’s just asking you for a tip, uh.
Well, firstly, let’s not be judgemental of simply as if knowing what the
intentions of workers doing favours for you.
Like I said, people who are working hard out there, on works
that may never give out a great income but is enough for themselves to feed and
dress, it takes a lot of patience and hard work to be that person. You think it’s
that easy?
To leave your country, your family, your home, working on
outdoor stuff bearing with so many difficulties, filling the jobs our own
citizens refuse to work due to embarrassment? To work so hard and gain so
little we all could understand they will utter to themselves if doing all this
for another country is even worth it. To be looked down upon us, who are
ignorant of appreciating them. To be looked down as if what they do is the
lowest stage of humanity.
To be looked down as if they didn’t deserve the happily ever
after ending at all.
We do not play the role of God, to determine if either
whatever the situation is hard in gaining incomes for life survival is the
level of happiness you can get. But unlike Islam, sometimes we have to
understand that other religion believers just have themselves focused on this
dunia’ alone therefore, money, is indeed a priority.
And no matter how hard it is to achieve so, they will do it
anyway. This, my dear readers, is responsibility.
Just try for once, look at them with a smile, wondering how
their efforts for money has made them the superheroes of themselves and others.
Back again, you, have everything you need. You don’t need to
be that wealthy or anything in exceed, but if you have loved ones, if you have
a room to sleep, clothes to wear and the right mind, doesn’t this world
sometimes leaves you drowning in your thoughts on how people out there who have
spent nearly all their lives to attain something you already have?
Not much of a happy comfortable life for some individuals
but that does not necessarily mean they are not in a blessed state. You don’t
need to have a soft heart to feel free lending some extra cash or stuff to
people who are desperate, you just need to change how you see things, and then
it will change you.
Since me or perhaps most of you readers are still young and
unestablished with the adult life where incomes come straighltly from our
parents, the least you can do is to keep your happiness moderate. Always, keep
it moderate.
Every time you feel like wanting to show off how happy you
are with your life and wealth, remember, not every has a good heart to not be
envy of you. Plus, it’s actually normal to have envious people casting black
magic upon those who tend to show how happy they are to public. Trust me, I
know. Be it due to receiving lots of love or money, they will never rest till
have their revenge on you.
Who says wealthy people are the worst individuals you can
meet? I used to hear that when I was small, but on this era, that statement is
invalid. Never once did they miss subuh’ prayer at the mosque getting there
with their BMWs, Audi etc. Never did they miss any particular donation in need
especially in terms of Palestine. Never did they talk to each other like they
own everything in the world of their possessions. Socializing with everyone
while clinging with their Burberry handbag, never did they have the urge to
tell everyone how expensive it was. These people go around the world once in a
month but never let everyone know –even through social media.
Despite for what they have, they were so humble, kind and
open-hearted to whoever they meet –and that, is the quality worth fighting for.
A lot of filthy rich people never let themselves expose to the society in terms
of wealth. They acknowledge what they have, silently donates and keeps
themselves busy with Arabic learning classes on the weekends. Honestly, these
people are the ones that triggers my jealousy on a particular aspect.
Now that I told you, remember to keep our happiness
moderate. Always keep in mind of all the hardships people go through to be in
the level of comfort you are in today, understand that not everyone likes the
idea of seeing you happy as you go through life, be smart to differ the bad and
good strangers you meet and lastly, know that the richest and happiest people
see no point of showing off what they have to make people feel low on their
lives.
Next time if others look at you as a
youngster to be already given the privilege to have something they will never
get, do you really think it’ll make the world a better place?
