balance
Weeks ago, i received an email from a penpal. This is what she told me in her letter (translated-edited version):
" How are you Fanny?
Yeah, it’s tough to be a mom, especially to live so far away from the family. But I feel blessed and happy, because my hubby is very understanding. I am free to use computer. I am not good with technology and not very smart. Luckily he’s very patient and always helped me, he wasnt angry too when I lost his data because I clicked the wrong button. He just asked me to learn more. I am so much more lucky than my friend who cant even use her hubby’s computer. She cant even go anywhere except to the supermarket or kids’ school…."
I was stunned when i read this.
For some reasons, I envy her. I envy her simplicity and her attitude to always feel blessed in her life.
Being a so-called modern woman, I always demand for more.
More freedoms, more respects, more understandings, more times, more money, more rights, more shoppings!!!!
I never feel blessed that my hubby ‘allow’ me to use the pc at home (beside this is our pc, we bought it together). I just feel that, its the way it should be. And I still feel the same way in many other things. That women and men are equal.
I’ve always thank all the amazing, extra ordinary women, like Oprah and Kartini, to make this thing happen.
But still, having read the email, i thank this wise woman. She reminds me that we need to feel blessed, in so many ways.
She taught me how to feel happy, to make the most of our life instead of always fighting for more and more..
I guess this is what I need. A balance.
