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Posted by David: June 14, 2006

My life fulfilling trip
Alrightey…my first blog…haha I‘m never really a fan of blogging but I just wanna share a little something to all of my friends…
I’ve just came back from my 3D2N Bali trip. On the last day of the trip, as I was waiting for my tour bus to pick me up from my hotel to the airport. I had a bit a time to go to the beach to enjoy the sea breeze for the last time, well at least for sometime to come….
So there I was, laying flat with my sunny on, looking at the waves roaring to the shore and enjoying the oncoming breeze rushing in from the never ending oceanic view when I noticed a man sitting on the sandy shoreline diagonally in front of me with his back facing me. There he was, with his hat on, dressed simply in dark blue polo-t and accompanied by a rather ruggard and worn-out pair of long pants. There was a large wooden box, flipped open, on his lap. Inside it was full of necklaces, rings, earrings, etc… things that you can usually find in pasar malam stalls…And so I realised he was a small time trader who sells these stuffs…
Equipped with a cloth on one hand, he was wiping clean of all his products… This may be a common scene to some… but before long I found myself even more engrossed with this whole image. And I admit, I peeped through my sunny for quite sometime… At that time, it really gets me thinking… I mean look at this man, he might not be earning much, he may have to go some days trying to sell his jewels in vain, bcos it aint easy to earn considerable profits especially when you are selling “fake” stuffs while many will prefer having brandish ones around their necks or wrists…. Not to mention on how far customers will actually push the limit of bargainings for these “lower” quality goods…But there he was, polishing them, not just ignorant polishing though. He was very diligent in wiping clean every of his stuffs and displaying them nicely on his wooden box… making sure that his products are sparkling clean and neat, hoping to entice more customers…
He might not be earning millions of profits per day, but I can see that he really takes a lot of pride in the thing he does… When he was finished with the cleaning, which easily took him about an hour or so… (cos that was how long I spent laying beat there)…he got up, wearing a big smile on his face, carried his stuffs and approached nearby tourists,... back to having a shot again to attracting them to buy his products by painstakingly trying to communicate in English with them….
Until now I still can’t shake off this live image from my head… I realise even more that life isn’t all about work, money making, big houses, sweet looking cars, blah, blah, blah… Life is more about the simple things we usually take for granted…the things that we are surrounded with and the people that we are blessed with…
If we take pride with everything we do in life, we’ll then find satisfaction and fulfilment of this so often called “sucky life”….
As for me, that very moment was when I started to treasure more the soothing sound of the onrushing waves, the inland gushing winds, to try and breathe in as much fresh ocean air as possible to cleanse my lungs =P
Cos I know not everyday that I can have the privilege to lay dead and be carefree =D
Life aint that bad afterall eh…
A Good Life ain’t there to be achieved… It is already there, laying in wait for each one of us to be able to see it…