11.45 p.m., 22 February
2019, Friday
Mood: Happy 😁
Today is the birth date of my dear
sister. It was a fulfilling day where I planned a surprise gift for her; buying
a pricey Charles & Keith bag online, making sure that the bag will be
shipped on time (thank god for standard shipping where it only took 3 days to
arrive #happyhands), and revising an imaginary scenario of the surprise taking
place (which included me being extra by drawing the bag and writing a poem-like
note at the very last minute). It all ended well, although I suspect that my
sister had already hinted at the surprise gift.
Today, I realised my utmost wish to earn
lots of money in the future. Everyone loves money and I do, too and I want to
earn money for the purpose of buying gifts for everyone I cherish in my life. I
found that (today) I find happiness in giving especially good stuff to people.
It somehow made me want to give everyone a gift as well (especially my other
family members). Unfortunately, these people on my list will have to wait till
I get another slip of my pay check!
Perhaps what I felt about giving my
favourite people gifts is similar as to why people donate to charities.
Regarding to this issue, most of the time I find it to be just for show as the
workers at the home don’t exactly do it out of love, and that the donors have
far too much time in their hands. Back to the topic, I think I now know why
people do charities. They want to see people happy and make the world seem a
better place to live in, hoping to ease the suffering and pain of these less
fortunate people, to give them a chance to be happy even just for a moment, to
let them feel loved and belonged, to tell them that some people care. Such
positivity should be embraced by everyone in this selfish world led by
capitalism where people are never satisfied with what they have and that the
people are actually valued by money!
We should take a moment to stop what we
are doing and think about our happiness. Of course, I can’t tell you what job
you should do. Rather, I can tell you about the way of finding happiness just
by doing the small things in our daily lives. Such small things can be just a
mere act of kindness to another stranger we meet in the street. Or it can be
our closed ones, whichever we prefer. This might sound absurd but such small
things can be giving up a seat in the train to an elderly or even donate
something to an orphanage. It might be more rewarding if we volunteer to do
charity work. I believe that such acts of kindness will surely give you a hope
and a dose of happiness to add colour to your life. That is what makes us move
on.
Note: Forgive me for my bad writing technique T3T (basically in ALL the post entries).