Friday, November 18, 2005

Where is my handicap?

I often wonder why we as regular people are not inspired to do anything important on our own?
We have everything going for us. No physical lackings, no mental short-comings and every other need handed to us without so much as a struggle. And yet we do nothing really worthwhile with our lives
and worst of all, we have the gall to complain that we do not having everything.

And then there are those who, through fate, have lost something very dear to them, be it a limb, a loved one or even eventually their lives, that truly shine through as human beings.
But why? Why must we HAVE to lose something to become worthwhile human beings?

I think we are, by default, extremely ungrateful in our existence.What we have is never ever really important to us until we have lost it.

And then one day we lose it...
Losing something dear to us, sparks within us two reactions of great extremes: selfishness and selflessness. It all depends how you wish to interpret your loss. A way to either victimise oneself or to look upon it as a means to strengthen not only your own soul, but the souls of others as well.