Every now and then we hear people use the sentence “it’s a cruel world we live in” and every now and then we see people complaining, wailing and crying over petty issues. The deplorable contrast of living standards has led to such a divide among people from different factions of the society that it affects us on multiple levels. Sadly, we forget the teachings of our glorious religion when we come across our troubles. All we do is whine that things are not the way we want them to be when our religion teaches to look at the less fortunate.
We forget that while we grumble on about not getting the latest outfits or not having the latest mobile phones, there are people who bear hunger for days –and they don’t even complain! We forget that while we cry about breaking up with a girlfriend/boyfriend, there are millions of orphans who spend their nights on the footpath –we forsake them when we see ourselves in a so called bad tide. Wouldn’t it be much more humane if we stop protesting against nature for being cruel to us and look at people who have no families at all? For instance, this woman who was sold at the age of 5 to a 40 year old man by her own father! Who was beaten all her life, abused physically sexually and mentally for crimes she didn’t commit, and who still believes she is not alone that she has Allah by her side!
I came across a person over the Internet a few years ago and just by knowing that a person like him exists, my perception of life had changed -just like that. Nicolas James Vujicic is a Serbian national who suffers from tetra-amelia disorder which means that he has no limbs. No arms or legs at all, but that’s not what his story is about; the thing that moved me was that Nic Vujicic is a motivational speaker! So there you go, instead of brooding over his disability, he decided to dedicate his life to motivate others towards life! What could be worse than not having legs to walk on or arms to hold anything, but his ever smiling face tells me that he has more life in him than most of us –he is much, much more stronger than most of us!
“We are not rich by what we possess, but what we can do without” –Immanuel Kant.
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