Are You Grateful ?

Few days ago, me and my dad had the honour of ecorting an Iraqi woman and her daughter. We met them at Yemen, in fact (: The mother, Iman, had deep beautiful eyes and her daughter, Raghda, was as fair as snow white and amazingly pretty. As soon as we saw them at the airport, the mother came to me and said, 'Oh Aisyah, so you are the wife?' Oh memang pasrah hancur lebur hati. I have never thought somebody would think Im my dad's wife. Thats just wrongg. Its beecause the last time she saw me, I was in nikab so yeah u get the idea. Gosh, seriously, do I look like mak orang? -.-"

They both were fluent in English coz the mother was an english teacher. So, you guys must be wondering why they came n the first place. Well, it is for the sake of education. Their family lived in Iraq and because of the discrimination they received from the west, they couldnt bare the hard life there. So they had to run away to Yemen, in search of a blissful life. They lived there about 5 years and now Raghda is 23 and wants to further their studies. They came to Malaysia to search for a university for her to study in. And I pray, that she would get accepted in a university she wanted.

My point here is that they had to flee from their homeland, in search of a better life. And went half around the world to give education to their daughter to improve the lifestyle of her life and the generations after her -- and they have a tight budget. See what they have to go through in search of knowledge -- while we sit here relaxed, being blessed with knowledge that can be obtained by a snap of a finger. We should be grateful with everything we have. Dont ttake for granted what in served for you in a silver platter but make the best out of it. That is why we must we work hard and as we learn in agama - bersyukur dengan nikmat yang diberi dan memanfaatkannya ke arah jalan yang benar.

So take a moment to thank God for all the blessings that we get, syukur syukur (: