WHAT DO YOU HAVE? IS WORTH SOMETHING.

APPRECIATE WHAT YOU HAVE

  This is one of the most touching Proverb that I have ever read, it is a Persia Proverb I first saw and heard about it on the television show, It  is funny I said to myself:

"I was crying because I didn't have any shoes to put on my feet and I was too poor to buy any, later as I walk down the street I met a man without feet..."

         The moral of this proverb simply tell us that no matter what we have we must appreciate what we have because we can always have less.  At the beginning I stop to think of people in Belize and places that I had visited and their condition of living . Many time we as human never realise what we have until we lose it, many might argue if you are rich you lose many thing without realising it including family and friends, however there is still misery in their hearts.

          It was for lunch one day, my mother had just finished cooking traditional Rice and beans Belizean style with the potato salad and fried plantain as usual my plate would have the leg of the chicken, that day I ask for a little more than usual. I thought I would be able to eat everything, soon I became full but still continued, I didn't why? I didn't stop. At that instant I began to cry, In my mind and heart the spirit of guilt and shame  infiltrated quickly. Many people in the world are dying of hunger every second and here I was wasting food moreover abusing of it, then sense of suicide  ambush my soul, I remember the picture I downloaded about months before, its posted on the side of this page. Then i realise that I was worthless human being that was not grateful for what he had. The person that loved life and people's well being was a fake, I smile and was always happy to make other happy were did that person go?

    
        The next day I tried my best to help and support my friends, the sense of guilt was still present, I decide to talk to a teacher, and I ask him " do you why God permits many people to died for not having food? " at that moment i blame God, as many of us do, we fine a solution to our mistake by blaming God or other. The teacher answer " God doesn't have the fault of this but he does have the solution, it is us that fail to seek him.

         Our friend play an important part of our life, but sometime we act or say things in such a way that we even terminate that great friendship, today on facebook I read a past student status it said " When someone is so sweet to you, Don't expect that they'll be like that  All the time... Because even the sweetest chocolate, Also EXPIRES"  I smiled and thought to myself, am I sure I am not that chocolate in the sentence? The following days after that incident with the food, I began to imply changes in my style of living I was more grateful of simple things and mindful of others. However, the philosophy of human nature doesn't allow us to be mindful of everyone, as the following quote suggests " enemies we know how to forgive them, but we never forget their names" sometime we mean to help and do good for others but deep down inside we are not humble enough to let go the past. 

    On my visit to Veracruz Mexico, I met a little girl that had nothing in her house but a simple bed and a table with some pots and containers but  no chairs, yet because I was a visitor wanted me to have a candy. In my mind " how is it that this child not having anything still gives to last she has to a stranger?" In return I smiled and took her to the store and bought her an apple, she said thanks ran to share with her little brother. My heart was moved and began to think of the innocence of this little child and how it compare to the society we are living in today. I posted a picture of her on the side of this post. So my dear friends, lets think twice when we do things, we never know what they person has or doesn't have. Is our life something worth of? Are the things we have are they worth something? At the end of the day appreciate everything you have and everyone around you because we could always lose them.

In conclusion ill share with you an African Proverb.

"Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.
Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must out run the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.
It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up, you better start running."
Lets us do our part in society.