One month flies..

Time flies, it has been more than one month since we went to Meulaboh. The smiles of the children, students in Meulaboh lingers in my mind. Admist the busyness and fast paced life in Singapore, I realised that it is so important to slow ourselves down at times and take stock of our life, of the things around us. If we don't do so, it is so easy to just keep on doing what we have been doing without knowing or evaluating the reason behind each task that we undertake.

There are times when I thought to myself, how would it be like if I were to stay in Meulaboh or a place of similar nature for more than one month or even 6 months or beyond? I admired and learnt about the value of contentment from the locals in Meulaboh..but do we really have to go to such a place and learn about such values? I realised that contentment comes when we choose not to compare what we have with others. This is a simple truth yet difficult to carry out in the society we are living in. Contentment is a deliberate choice that we made and contentment is great gain.