The Differences

In this world there are many kinds of people. Some people can’t even have a meal in a day while some people have a various choices in front. Some die of hunger and some are obese. Some can’t even earn a penny in a day while some can’t manage the spending in a day. Some do not get a chance to go to school and learn while some have a liberty to choose the best schools for education.  Some do not have a shelter to live in while others build buildings after building. Some do not get a drop of water to drink while some choose the best water out of many kinds. In some areas people die due to drought while some lost their lives to floods and tsunamis.  Some work and earn a bit while some do not work and earn more. Some do not even have shoes to wear while some goes in cars with fancy shoes on. And when some feels the pain of not having shoes others struggles in life with no feet.

Sometimes these feelings become my worst nightmares. It keeps me thinking…while all these differences? Our parents used to tell us that, what we are today are the clear reflections of what we have been doing in our past lives. That is what we call “Tshey Nga mai Lay” in our own term which literally means “the effect of the past lives”. The ones who have been doing all the good things in their entire lifetime in the past lives are the ones who are well off at present and vice-versa. It has been said by great saints: “to know what we have been doing in our past lives, we have to see our present life and to know what we will be in our next life; we have to look at the things we do at present”.

A feeling of contentment is a source of all happiness. If we cannot think enough is enough, it does not bring any happiness in one’s life. That is when people often crave for many things that they don’t have. People go for wants and not for needs. If we have the basic needs, that should be enough in life. In some parts of the world, people don’t get a meal a day and no clothes to put on and house to live in. Looking at their conditions, people who have the basic needs have to be contented. Some billionaires and millionaires often make a huge donation for the benefits of others who do not have the basic needs. These activities of them are really appreciative and it is one good human instinct that causes happiness in self and others.  If we have it all for ourselves, it gives happiness for self but if we share what we have, it gives happiness for others that in turn doubles our happiness.

The world would be a happy place if we share our happiness. It is in our hands to make no differences among the people sharing the same world. If those billions spent on wars and ammunition by the world could be used for helping those who are in need of, it could have made the world happier than it is today. War is destruction and peace is happiness. The world is no place for war. 

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