That's life

Aging and sickness are the norm in life but it is still sad when you discover some of your friends are suffering from chronic sickness, and it is frightening of late that many such incidents are happening. I was told by a friend not too long ago that our colleague was undergoing treatment in Singapore for colon cancer and this morning again a friend told me that our colleague’s wife was undergoing cancer treatment. Not too long ago, a colleague of mine was diagnosed with a tumor growing in her brain and as she was recuperating from the illness after going in and out from the hospital, her husband was out of the sudden passed away due to stroke. Sometimes, come to think about it, we are at the mercy of the Almighty and nothing we can to avoid sickness. That’s life; you’re born, growing old, affected by illness, then die.

A Chinese actor from the mainland China used to say this; “when you close your eyes and open again, that’s a day, but when you close your eyes and never open again, that’s your whole life”. Like it or not, this world that we are living in, comprise of people from all sorts of thought, some value life some not. Some are brave to face all sorts of adversity but some are slowly killing themselves dwelling in life threatening activities, drugs and all sorts of other criminal things and so on. Some even murder their own babies upon delivered and disposed them just like chucking a dead animal. Some committed suicide for all sorts of funny reasons only known to them.

I have traveled a lot to poor countryside in Indonesia, Laos, China and sometime you look at those poor people struggling to make ends meet, it makes me wonder where the hell they gain the strength to carry on in spite of all those adversity and hardship? Maybe, the strength lies in their believe that by virtual of being alive, is already a winner.