Comparison make things worse!

"How many A's did you get for your O-Level or A-Level result?" This questions was often raise during the day's that the results of students are released. This is a normal phenomena in our society today. When you grew slightly older,let say 23-35 years old,  people or one's relative might ask "Which company are you working for? And what is your position in your company?". From the statement above which I had mention, the purpose behind it is merely to ask, and to compare.

During this modern world, people's main goal including myself, is to chase after wealth.  After the things we want have attain, we will start to compare with our friends surrounding us or people around us. Many peoples have certain level of egoism. We tend to compare the things we have with our peers. To a certain extend, we do not want people better than us. We want to be a bright and shinning starts among our peers. We want people to look us as a king. We want to get praises from others. We concern our status in the society. Often, we forget our dignity. Pride often wiped out the humility that a person should have. 

This reminds me about someone who said: "I hate to become a loser! I prefer to be a winner!" Pride often seems important in our society today. This is not the shocking part of it! The most shocking part is a particular lecturer of mine once told me this: "I just don't feel good when I see someone better than me." If we really observe, we start to realized that we are busy chasing something in order to gain respects, pride and status in the society, in turn, it create emptiness in our life. 

Now, it does not mean that all the respect that we get is based on the factors that I have mention earlier.  Some respect that we gain most probably come from our sincere contribution to certain matters in the society, such as helping the poor, or contribution to the society. All this respect that gain from your sincere heart contribution, in return, these respects can last forever. But, if we think that the comparison of wealth between people around us can bring us to a higher level of the society,I would say that all the respect that we gain will not last long forever. Sometimes they might create hatred between your peers. In addition, pride often bring us far from God, and the kingdom of God which God has prepared all of us.

Comparison always make things worse!

Today, let us be our true self, to do the things that we are suppose to do. To do the things that we have and obligated to do. Let us not let the pride of our sins to close us and hovered over us. Let us do not compare each other in the society and appreciate what we have and give thanks to the Lord. 

Pause a moment, Reflect!

This will be my last semester in university. It will never easy for me since I'm going to struggle with so many stuffs that is remaining,  before I can finally pull myself out from the university, and proudly declare myself as a graduate. Now, half of the semester has gone and things are getting worse due to the deadline of my assignments, thesis and mid term are filling up my heavy load of bag.

Throughout this struggling, no doubt that I am feeling stress, sometimes might suffer minor insomnia. This may lead to frustration. But, the good thing that I have experienced is I'm able to examine myself and know my weaknesses in it. We are human, none of us in this world are prefect. I'm pretty sure that each of us will not be prefect, just like God. We have our own weaknesses, at the same time we have good side in us.

Nowadays, people just fail to reflect on their own weaknesses. They just find that something goes wrong, the blame will be shot to others people head instead of having a small reflection to examine their weaknesses. We shouldn't feel ashamed with the weaknesses that we have, but, we should work toward it and change one self to become a better person.

However, this world is blinded with pride. Most of the people might think admit their own weaknesses which mean put themselves in a shameful position between their friends, family or relatives. Pride often make people feel themselves GREAT. Sometimes pride might build up a bad image among your peers.

Reflect or examine ourselves is important  our weaknesses to become a better person. Yes, undeniable this semester will be a very heavy semester for me, I am pretty confident that the grace from God is sufficient for me to go through everything.