Food Sucks?

Food that tastes bad? Boring with food around? Complain about drinks? Don’t like this and that?

What about 925 Millions people that starve from hunger all around the world? That more than 5 million children die due to starvation and poor nutrition every year?

What about him?

Photograph by Kevin Carter 1994

Living Sucks?

Your house is not as big as your neighbors? Parents didn’t buy you a Ferrari as your 21st birthday present? :p Neighbors are noisy with piano training? Don’t have the latest electronic device? Don’t have a nice movie to watch this weekend? Then what is this kid complain about every day? Life sucks? Think again.

Children in Afghanistan avoid dust in refugee camps

The kid is struggling to live every day, while you might be sitting comfortable with a cup of warm coffee on the table, under a nice weather, complaining to your friends, how sucks your life is.

What about this?

Sleeping Place - Home

There are million people die in hunger, die in a war, live everyday in fear, and starve, illness and so on. How can we complain our life is sucks compare with them?

And also this:

The Pain of War

Vietnam Napalm, Trang Bang, 1972.

Kids are crying, losing their family members in a sudden, hopeless, nobody to depends on anymore, yet the war still on going. In the coming seconds, they might die in war as well. Life sucks?

*Some photos might seems very disturbing, but if it is not, how can you feel them? By putting you in their situation?

Job Sucks?

Many people love to complain about their job, their boss, their colleagues, salary and so much things. But again, how sucks your job can be compare with theirs?

Indian Sewer man

Or this:

Veterinarians

A picture tells a thousand words, seems like I don’t need to explain much and you already know that this is kinda sucks..compare with your office based job with air-conditioner and comfortable chair or whatever job you are having now.

Body Sucks?

If you are complaining about your physical body of not strong enough, not beautiful enough, not tall enough, don’t have six pack abs? Not healthy enough… What about these people?

Nick Vujicic

Nick Vujicic - Life Without Arms and Legs

I believe many people know who is Nick Vujicic, a man without arms and legs, yet he can be so successful today, as a motivational speaker, Director of Life Without Limbs, with double major of Accounting and Financial Planning, travelling to over 25 countries and more.

I can either be angry for not having arms and legs or be thankful for my chicken drumstick(his little leg) | Nick Vujicic

Helen Keller

Helen Keller

Helen Keller contracted illness when she was 19 months that left her Deaf and blind. Imagine, without the ability to see things, how can she listen to the world? Without the ability to listen, how can she speaks? And also blind! How can she interact and communicate with the world? But she still can earn a Bachelor of Arts Degree! She was an American Author, Political Activist and also lecturer!

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows. | Helen Keller

What about..

Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking was disabled by a motor neurone disease when he was 21 years old, but this does not stop him on his research and passion on physic. He is theoretical physicist, twelve honorary degrees, and was made a Companion of Honour in 1989. He is the recipient of many awards, medals and prizes.

I believe I do not need to explain and talk about them much, as they are so well known around the world, I can confirm that they had so much hard time in life compare with all tiny problems you complain about everyday, life..sucks? I believe at least you are so much better than lots of people around the globe. They still can live life to the fullest with the "sucks” part happens in their life, why not you?

I personally respect them so so much, respect their attitude towards life. I can complain about how sucks my life is and especially for the pass, of having a weak body since young, asthma when I was a kid, nose bleeding every few days, faint easily after exercise (now much better, as I train my body more, with more exercise and care of my body =] )….. But compare with them, how sucks my life can be? In another way round, I am grateful of who I am today, and thankful for everything in life. It is a shame for me to bring up all these tiny problems and start complaining that my life is sucks due to this and that.

Some people might argue that we shouldn’t compare our own life with others, as each of us comes from different background and environment, but if you see the world inside you, and not you inside the world, then you are locking yourself in a tiny + pity cage where you only see 4 walls where only you yourself matter most all the time.

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response. | Mildred Barthel

This post is a combination of viewing life in different angle, and through different people, to provoke and brings up the facts that, your life isn’t that sucks. Now you are viewing this article through a computer or a mobile device or whatever tablet, so you are much luckier than millions that don’t! That your financial is so much better than many that can’t even afford to own these electronic devices, or even affording a meal to kill hunger is a big problem for them!

If it is sucks, that is simply because of you yourself that judge it so and make it happen (and worst, continue to sucks in it). If you complain life to improve and changing it, that’s cool; but if you complain for the sake of complain…you know what I mean.

Be grateful with everything in your life. We come to life with empty hands and leave without taking anything away, we should be grateful with everything that comes into our life, even a cup of hot coffee to warm up your lovely morning, taking a refreshing bath with cold clean water everyday, a meal that keeps hunger away everyday…

If you can read my post here and able to complain about life, it means your life isn’t that sucks, and you have a choice to make things around better (while many don’t even have the choice). If you still think your life is sucks, at least you have a choice to change and improve, instead of continue to sitting comfortable there complaining about how sucks life is.