From Those To Whom Much Is Given, Much Is Expected
While on my way to work this morning, I reflected upon the problems that are besetting me: career, post-grad degree, the continuous search for a house of our own, my father's outrageous temper, my future. I constantly search for answers to those thoughts that linger in my mind from time to time. When I wake up every morning, I pray to God to help me solve those preoccupations. Thinking of them, with no clear solutions at hand, makes me feel that I am trapped inside a four-cornered room where no door is at sight. It seems like everything's blurry.
When I arrived at the office, I saw our cleaning lady
and had some chit-chat with her. She confessed to me that she still has
problems with her ex-husband who does not give their kids some financial
support and how her salary can barely provide for the education of her children
and their everyday expenses. She wept and expressed her disappointment over the
current state she is in and wished that all of it is only a dream.
Unfortunately, I do not know how to help her since I also do not have large
amount of money to lend to her and help her cope with life's demands.
When I went into my room, my colleague asked a favor
from me. She would like to borrow money because his lolo got sick and she
cannot withdraw money from her account because it will suffer 10K worth of
penalty. I know how hard it is to borrow money. Our family has been through that
before. While she was telling me about her predicament, she sounded like she
has a lump in her throat. It is obvious that it is difficult for her to make
that favor.
I told myself, why have I been worrying on petty
things when there are people whose problems are bigger than mine? Why should I
be sad when life is really good to me? Maybe it's just that I have to open my
eyes to see the good things and be grateful for what I have than continuously
let self-defeating self-talk beat me.
Not that knowing how heavy are the problems of other
people will make you feel lighter, but it is makes you wake-up to reality: that
everyone in this world have their own set of problems and that you do not have
the right to burden other people with your excruciating self-pity.
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