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We take so many things for granted. We are forever so worried about our "issues in life" that we stop appreciating what we already have.
I always have this habbit of looking closely at people I dont know, and trying to guess what they think like.
So I was in the bathroom at my office and was watching the maintainance guy washing the wash basin. He was almost my age. And I started thinking at how should he feel when he sees me, same age as his working at this position at office. Whereas he is serving me and the other guys by cleaning the bathrooms for us. What is it that has brought him an inferior fate than me.
Both of us know that he would be as good a guy as me, maybe better. Its just that he didnd get the opportunities that my parents got me. We all know what the reasons were. But he also has all rights to enjoy life as much as I do.

My mother has a peculiar take on religion, which she actually borrows from my dadi. She says that lets assume that God is a parent. Parents give their everything to their children. They would be very happy if the children could at the end of the day come home and remember them. And say thanks to them for everything. That is the minimum that you can do and also the maximum. That is why she says we should pray. I agree.
But I have bended it a little more to my comfort :) . I say that God is a kind of invisible parent who doesnt want to be known that he is there. Without going too much into "the existence and forms of God" discussion, lets just say that all he wants is that we be happy. And even after giving us so much if he sees us unhappy. *that* would make Him sad. So rather than cribbing all day long and then praying to God. Be happy. Let that be your prayer and your worship to Him who has given ou so much.

sorry for the didactic prose towards the end. But when i see the poor and the handicapped and sick people, it really hurts me. More so, when i imagine that at this very instance a perfectly well to do human being in some perfect luxury would be cribbing about how bad his life is !!