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Saturday, January 23, 2010

Appreciate

10-letter formation that carries a lot of weight in meaning, the same word we as humans are most guilty of failing to do.

Relations

- Most of us say that we do appreciate out parents for giving birth to us, for raising us to be what we are today, but we never really show it. I'm guilty of it too, I can't deny. Sometimes I find my parents annoying, but thank God that I'm following through with one of my new year's resolutions - to be nicer to my parents. You should too, whoever is reading this. It doesn't matter to them if you buy them things as a way to show your love. I realised that the best gift to them would be to show them that they should have no regrets in the way they've raised you. If you are weak in academics, show them that you have other useful traits so that they won't worry about dying and leaving you to fend for yourself. Just an example. I'm sure you can think by yourselves on what to do. They will leave you, and that will be the worst day of your life, carrying their bodies to the grave and watching them being buried. Make sure they can leave without a worry. That's the best a child can do for a parent.

- Some of us take friendships for granted. Some people think things will always remain the same just because they are good/great/best friends. Some people don't appreciate it enough to realise that the closer you are to a person, the easier it is to hurt that person with even the slightest things. Watch your actions and the things you say. It is never impossible to lose a best friend permanently. Ask you parents. Believe me. Rarely do friendships last your entire lifetime. If you want to keep it strong, do everything you can. Don't take it for granted and think that your friend will always be there and stay the same.

Moral Responsibility

- Most people can't give a damn about the world. Not many are willing to spend 5 minutes to sign a petition to save dolphins, no one cares about littering, about the repercussions of littering, about what animals or plantations it would kill, about the workers who would have to clean it up after us, because we're all living comfortably. We don't know what they are going through. We think we know, but we don't. I've always said to myself, if I was a billionaire, I would use the money to somehow save the world. The thing is, the billionaire doesn't see things like I do. Just like us middle-class citizens who don't know what littering means to the cleaners. The cleaners would think that if they were living as comfortably as us, they wouldn't litter or make work difficult for other cleaners. We don't appreciate the comfort we're given. We always think of things we would do with greater comfort but we don't realise what we should and should not with the comfort we're given.

More often than not, the world sets off an alarm, trying to give us a wake up call, but most of the time we're guilty of pushing the snooze button.

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