Presents
Some presents might end up getting returned.
Have we ever wondered why we somehow get what we give to other people? We give them a bundle of roses and we the following day discover a box of edelweisses on our door steps. We gifted them a sack of pythons yesterday and we today have our house swarmed by dozens of anacondas.
But some gifts are for keeps.
Often times people are tempted by "what if..." questions. "What if I were that billionaire?", "What if I were a well-known celebrity?", "What if I had a skinnier figure?", "What if I could've built a bigger house and could've married a prettier, sexier, and hotter wife?". Nothing can stop us imagining how geat our dull life will be if we can manifest those 'what-if' dreams into reality. We, nevertheless, most of the time forget how precious what we already have in hand. We forget how troubled a billionaire can be when he finds out he suffered from a huge loss in stock market or how anxious he always feels everyday to know his kids could get hurt by kidnappers. We forget how stressful a life as public figure could turn. We never know how pricey, miserable and painful it is for those skinny models to stay slim even though they know their well-being is at high stake. There are points where we should stop wishing and say by heart "This is who I am and it's all that I've got from God". Mahatma Gandhi once said, "This world is enough for everyone's need, not greed". No one knows better what we need than God does.
Other presents come when you least expect them.
When we found out a friend stabbed us from the back, we must've thanked God for giving us a chance to learn the truth. When we lost someone we loved, we must've thanked the Almighty for the opportunity to fortify ourselves and let our immature souls grow without our beloved one since being together doesn't last forever and doesn't always mean better.
And everyone knows the biggest present comes in the smallest box.
That's why we always have a reason to be grateful for every single predicament we undergo. Getting F in writing class may make us the best writer in the world. Being poverty-stricken might lead us to becoming a persevere and affluent entrepreneur. Being bullied and called 'chicken' by our classmates can make us the most fearless general at battlefields. Napoleon was said to be short but he once ruled almost the entire Europe.
Then there are those boxes you wish you had never opened.
Curious Pandora opened the forbidden box and she regretted that badly. Like Pandora, everyone has his own forbidden box. But now that the box is already opened, we must face it and get rid of it for good or leave it and get haunted by it for the rest of our life.
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