Thus Far In 2009...

19 days have already passed in 2009, and with each day I pray that people would open their eyes and realise that there are way more important and crucial issues out there than their petty indifference's and egotistical shortcomings.

Pretty soon we'd have consumed almost all the earths resources, which is a scary thought considering we'll have no where else to look, no other country to invade and be left with a rapidly depleting self control to stop taking what's not ours to begin with.

Everyday we wake up and walk in the sunshine, but there are people around the world who never will. We think our lives are worth being stressed over, that if we don't keep up with this man made rat race we'll be left behind and unhappy. Nothing can be further from the truth. We each have in us all we need to be happy and fulfilled. We just have to unlock that greatness. Only you alone can see the world differently, you can choose to let go of the stress, the void we desperately hold onto for fear of losing ourselves completely.  We just need to stop, take a breath, look around at all the we're blessed with, and change the way we see our world. Just one look and we'll never be the same again. We can never be happy, TRULY happy, until we let go of this relentless need to be better than our fellow man, this need to be more in control of our lives, this need to know whats going to happen, when honestly we have no clue as to the plan already set for us.

We plan towards building a successful career, amass wealth and be popular, when all those plans are minute in comparison to whats really in store for us. 

I leave you with a few inspiration quotes I came across. May we all realise how to let go of worldly wants and be blessed with the gifts of each day, especially the gift of life...

"The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground."
- G. K. Chesterton

"We have no choice of what color we're born or who our parents are or whether we're rich or poor. What we do have is some choice over what we make of our lives once we're here."
- Mildred Taylor

"There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever."
- Mahatma Gandhi

"Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today."
- Og Mandino

"You are the only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life."
- Les Brown

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
- Ralph Waldo