Hello! This week we have Jeffy Sarto with us. Jeffy is a good friend from school and she has done her graduation from WCC. She is a very active blogger too. You can follow her posts at http://jeffysarto.blogspot.com/. I am really happy that she could take some time out to do this guest post for my blog. Thank you Jeffy! So here goes her post on the art of giving! :D
Have you ever felt like the world is messed up and
full of strange extremes? There are people starving, outside of five star
hotels where food is lavished upon, in an all you can eat buffet.
Yes, but what do we have to do with this? Would you
call yourself rich?
In a recent article I read in my college magazine,
the writer (an ex-classmate) urged the readers to appreciate what they had and
who they had
.
I’ve been hurt, depressed, afraid of the future for
so long that I forgot to appreciate and live in the moment.
In the “Diary
of Anne Frank” a book filled with the journal entries of a little girl who
lived and died during the holocaust- she writes that as she and her jewish
family had to hide in a small building, and were never allowed to go outside
because of fear of the Germans, who eventually capture and kill most of the
family, she misses things like going out doors, being out in the open. I remember
reading it and gaining a whole new perspective of my blessed life.
There are so many examples that would show you just
exactly rich each one of us are. I know what it’s like to feel that there isn’t
any justice in this world or to lose someone you love. Sometimes the thing that
I wanted the most, or the people that I love the most – turn around and hurt
me, and at those times- asking me to appreciate what I had – would probably be
one of the worst things to say.
But when you allow yourself to feel the pain, and
just cry- and then we can begin to see that we have a choice. To dwell on what
we’ve lost, or to dwell on the perks of right now.
To be grateful that you have another day and perhaps
today, instead of complaining about the dirty streets, and the messed up world,
you could choose to reach out and show light into another person’s life. It is
then that you suddenly realize that even though things are still too difficult
to understand, we can still change some things for the better.
Suddenly, your life is not about just you anymore.
But about something bigger.
Suddenly you realize you are richer than you’ve ever
been.
We have more than we ever knew.
