Waking up to the refreshing breeze of mountain air, and the cooling drizzle of summer rain, I recollected how as kids in our teens, we use to wake up very early in the morning, drank coffee lovingly prepared by Mom, rode on our only buffalo and guided it on the padi bund to graze before running off to school. No cars to send us to school, no Kentucky fried chicken for our birthday present or handy gadgets to play around, we pull through college and made it to the University, it was really God's grace how those years had built in us the required toughness and resilience in our character.
Facing the global recession and the ensuing hyper inflation, where the value of our currency dip to about 50% of its value a couple of years ago, with foreclosures by banks on properties and homes of senior executives and corporate figures, this quite life in the kampung is but really a 'gift from God'.
Last night, I had a refreshing fellowship with an accountant friend who left his practice because his clients could not pay him and left him stranded with debts. He joined a co-operative who are owned and managed by about 600 hundred members who are closed to the government in power. We shared and had a good laugh over the things how 'wise and educated' people behaved when threatened to lose their comfort zones, even to the extent of stooping so low to lie, cheat, falsify documents and sell off their souls for a piece of paper declaring them Datuk, Tan Sri or Tun and at the same time received 'kickbacks' from corrupted businessmen buddies, all of which will eventually rot with their bodies when the time for them to depart this world arrives for the wages of sin is 'death', says the Bible..
Yes, all of us are but sojourners, just passing through and some day, in a place called Heaven, we will find our perfect peace, love and fulfillment.
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