My journey...

I was watching a chinese movie about the ancient day china. Where there is the emperor and his subjects. This particular emperor summoned a commoner to have dinner with him. Upon tasting the finest food fit for the king the commoner commented that the food is cold. The king then said "Of course it is cold. Do you know how far the food have to travel because the palace is so huge. Plus they have to prepare it earlier so that the food taster could taste the food and to make sure that the food is not poisoned. So by the time the food reaches me, it is cold."

The commoner then said "How I am longing for the hot steam bun. That tastes much nicer than the cold dishes."

Could you imagine how the emperor could have felt. Everyone wishes to be the emperor yet in the simple things such as food, he cannot taste what this commoner taste.

Sometimes it is not the finest things in life that makes us happy. It is the contentment in our hearts. We can have the finest things and yet not happy with what we have. The simpler things in life may cause us to be much happier. We think that if we have more then we would be happier but only to find that the more we have the more we desire. At times, the simpler life is much better. We need to learn to be happy with what we have.

We could go through life wishing for a better life and missing out on what we have at the moment. When we realise it, it may be too late cause there is so much time that we have wasted and those times cannot be repeated. We are only 22 or 30 or 40 once. We cannot relive an age again.

I guess it is up to us what we want and how we see life. We need to learn to be content.