two days ago, a friend of mine asked me this question:
"If you have a bowl of rice, just a bowl of rice, while you see that richer people have dishes, and poorer people do not even have a bowl of rice, then who should you compare to?"
and by that time, my answer was:
"If we compare to those who are richer, ours is nothing, but if we compare to the poorer people, we will find that actually we are much more lucky than them...." something like that...
then, he asked me one more question:
"If you don't even have a bowl of rice, and you are the poorest people in the world, then who should you compare to?"
and my answer was:
"Then we should compare to those who are richer than us, so that it could act as a force that drives us to get the bowl of rice..." something like that...
and by that time, we both thought that it's really a complicated question...
well, that was my answer by that time... but after that conversation, i think about that question again and again... if i'm the poorest... who should i compare to... if i want compare to poorer people, but no one is poorer than me... if i want to compare to richer people, there would be at least two answers for that... 1st is if i think in positive way, then my answer will be the same as that day... 2nd is if i think in negative way, then my answer will be 'feeling inferior and unfortunate and i better go and die'... something like that...
however... when i conclude my answers, i found that it's not as complicated as we thought... actually... it's just depend on how we think... in which way we think... if you think in positive way, then maybe you won't feel that you are the poorest in the world... though you have nothing... but if you think in negative way, then maybe you will feel like "oh! really... i'm the poorest in the world... why am i so unfortunate... why am i so unlucky... why am i... ..." sighing here and there...
well, perhaps this is my conclusion... just MY conclusion on my age... from what i had faced so far... but maybe i'll change my conclusion one day when i become more mature... who knows??? ^^
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