01/12/2025
A Realization About Life
Last night, I was thinking a lot about life and my problems—how I’m going to get through them. That’s why sometimes I can’t sleep. I keep thinking about my bills. I complain about life.
But last night, while my husband was on his way back to Taiwan after his six-month vacation—because his company closed—we were really struggling because we had no source of income for a while. Then I saw the rider. I had booked a Lalamove from Cavite to Batangas last night. He left around 2 or 3 PM.
I forgot that I had booked him because I was eating and using my phone, and it slipped my mind that someone was on the way for me. I only remembered late, so I called the rider to ask where he was. He said he was already near. It was around 10:30 to 11 PM.
And then it suddenly hit me—here I was, complaining and complaining about life, but this rider had been traveling and working straight from 2–3 PM until 11 PM, fighting through life, working hard. Meanwhile, I wasn’t doing anything and was just complaining.
I realized how lucky I actually am, and it made me think deeply. This rider is fighting through life while I’m here complaining and doing nothing, just using my phone. So while I was lying in bed trying to sleep, I couldn’t fall asleep because I kept thinking about how hard that rider was working. I realized how blessed I am and how much I should be thankful to God for in this life. Thank God.
Sometimes, we only think about our own problems. We think we’re the only ones who have problems. We think we’re carrying all the burdens. But there are people who are even more tired than us—yet they don’t complain.
