There is no water supply here.

Apparently, some ‘pihak berwajib’ whom I do not know and am not bothered to find out their name are going around subang area to change the pipe thingamajiggy underground.

So the guys and their mean machines are going around from SS to SS (haha, from S’es to S’es) digging up holes and pulling stuff out. (is it just me or does this sentence just sounds so wrong?)

Anyway, they’re putting up road blocks everywhere and destructing people’s daily life (the government’s great at that.) They go a-drilling right outside everybody’s front gate and therefore the whole stretch of the street cannot drive in or out if their houses. So everyone’s stuck like a pig in the mud.

Which is quite a good thing actually. No wonder I feel so healthy today.

More oxygen in the air + less CO in my lungs = janice’s lifespan increases by 10%.

I can almost hear my alveoli singing while happily expanding and recoiling away in my lungs :)

Back to the lack of water here and all the unhappy residents. (I wish I could take a pic of mdm chong sulking in her chair in the living room and posting it here. But I can’t. it’ll be a breach of privacy.)

It’s got me thinking.

We all have no water supply for less than 24 hours and we start complaining and getting all pissed. Imagine poverty-stricken countries that barely have water supply. For years.

And here we are getting an EXTREMELY small taste of what their lives are like without water. And that’s just a small part of what they have to go through everyday.

Let’s face it and be totally honest here. There is absolutely no way we would survive.

It’s all these little things in life that we take for granted. Things that have always been there that we just assume they will be there forever.

What happens if you wake up one morning to find that it’s not there? What would you do? Would you regret that you never appreciated it before and it’s way too late now that it’s gone? Would you live the rest of your life going ‘What if I had…’ and ‘I wish I did…’?

What meaning would your life hold if you were to keep going back to the past and wishing you had done things differently?
Would it change anything?

We have got it good. We just don’t open our eyes wide enough to see and appreciate everything that we have.

We’re always too busy looking at what others have and what we don’t. Wouldn’t it make you a much happier person to see what you have and what others don’t?

It’s just human nature where everything’s a want. We’re all so caught up in a materialistic world and nobody’s to blame. Almost all of us have been brought up with the idea that we must get a high-fly job in order to be respected by society. We have to climb up the ladder until we reach the top.

But it gets lonely at the top. Along the way, more often than not, we have to sacrifice A LOT of things that probably meant something once but everything takes the backseat once you’re so focused to reach the top that everything loses its meaning, including life. Because success becomes your life.

Will you be satisfied then? Will you finally get the life you’ve always dreamt of after years and years of throwing everything you’ve had into it? Sadly, the answer is no. We always want more. And it will never end. How many of us can actually say we are truly satisfied with what and who we have in our lives right now? Nobody. And you know why? It’s because NOTHING’s ever truly enough.

We’re like robots in this world. The second we’re born, we’re already fitted into a schedule and routine that we end up following until the day we die. We just do things because we know we have to. Without knowing why. Guess that's just the way things work around here.

Do we not see other people’s pain and suffering? Do we not see other people’s loss? Then why do we always complain about ours? If you think you’ve got it bad, think again. There are others out there who have got it much worse than you. And you don’t need to go about feeling sad and sorry for them. Most of them are way braver than you’ll ever be.

So maybe we should all start to appreciate the little things in life. It’s obviously much easier said than done. But step by step, little by little, we can make a difference in our own life and even others.

The other day on the way home from school, I saw this lady in her 50’s trying to fly a kite with the help of her maid. The kids were sitting on top of the slide, giggling and roaring with laughter. The lady was running from one end of the park to the other, laughing and tugging the kite, with the maid, also laughing, running behind her holding the kite and throwing it up into the air.

Somehow something about it made me stop and smile. It wasn’t just the fact that the family could find such a small thing so fun and enjoyable, but the main reason was because everyone who were passing by looked at them and smiled too. It was absolutely beautiful. The best part was that the lady was able to make so many people smile without even knowing it.

I could go on and on and write a whole book about how twisted this world is and how we all have lost sight of what really matters most but then again I’m running out of steam.

If you were hoping to read a whole entry about me complaining about having no water supply here, well, sorry to disappoint.

Only thing I’m going to say is, I do not like Indah Water. I will not be surprised if Nemo comes shooting out of the shower head one day.

I need to refill my glass of milk now.

It’s only half full :)

Ps: if you want a good life lesson, go get a copy of Mitch Albom’s TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE. An absolutely beautiful book. I finished it in one night. And boy, did it open up my eyes.

24/5/08 11.30pm