things get better after a while

like they say..once u learn the lesson that's to be learnt...it all starts to go away..and you appreciate the days when you cried so hard and learned how to be strong and grit your teeth so hard you swear you'd make it one day.

the fire's still burning.
strong.

today i visited one of my client's house - it made me so ashamed of myself.
never have i came so close to that stage of poverty.

all this while you would have thought that those studio apartments were bad enuff - until u visit a ground floor flat where the stench of old furniture, and unkept household with 5 kids and a sole breadwinner father just made you so ashamed of your supposed misery and deprivation. He takes home slightly more than an interns pay and he's got so many mouths to feed. Thank god his kids are well in skool.

And i thought to myself, "Baby,you haven't had no inkling of poverty and misery."

I salute the less fortunate - for their strength in daring to take life as hard as it seems, and making the most of what they have.

Not many of us can have such strength in adversity.

Enjoy hardship while it lasts. Cos out of it you learn so much - you would have never thought you could be that strong.

[Current music - Bob Marley, "So much trouble in the world"]