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May 5th , 2010 - Frustrated With Not Finding The Perfect Life
Marsha Maung
Image Credit: Man Looking Out Window Picture
John looks out the window mournfully. Outside, he sees his neighbor giving his wife a loving peck on the forehead while she tends to the garden. Their kids are kicking around boisterously, screaming for daddy to come join in the game. And daddy does as with all perfect little daddies do.
John can feel the slow-boiling emotion of envy, jealousy and the creeping frustration about life being unfair to him and being so kind to his neighbor and his family members. They have everything they ever want out of life and he has nothing. He got to a point whereby he is fed-up about not being able to find a perfect life like the one that his neighbor has. Life gave him a terrible hand.
John does not realize that he is probably never going to find the perfect life. Not because he can't achieve it with that state of mind, but because there is no perfect life.
What John sees of the family is just the outside picture. He created the reality in his mind, that his neighbor's life is perfect and his is not. Whereas, in the real reality, his neighbor is facing potential bankruptcy and they might have to move to a flat soon. His wife can't seem to find a job because she's been a housewife ever since their firstborn was born. The neighbor's firstborn also has a problem about not facing up to bullies in school.
That's the real reality – that everyone has problems. But what John chooses to see is this one-sided reality that makes his neighbor's life the perfect life, and his the complete opposite.
John does not see that his mother is worried sick about him and is about to board a flight out to see him and take care of him. He does not see that his boss at work is doing all that he can to help John keep his job. He does not see the abundance of love that he is getting from HIS own kids and his ex-wife. He wallows because his focus is in not having what his neighbor has. His neighbor's perfect little life.
He is in search of something that is not real, hence, he can never find the perfect life. Not when he is not acknowledging his own perfect life. The one that he is now entitled to live but chose to ignore.
Choose to see the good in everything that you have right in front of you today.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Marsha Maung is a Malaysian-based freelance web copywriter with two kids. She spends her time ferrying her kids around, watering her plants, writing web content, SEO stuff, ghostwriting books and also indulges in the occasional Facebook-ing. Visit her blog for more dirty details on the life and times of a mother, writer, designer, housekeeper, coffee-maker, poop-wiper, chef...and just about everything else under the sun.
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<b>Marsha Maung</b> is a Malaysian-based <a href="http://www.marshamaung.com" target="_blank">freelance writer</a> with two kids. She spends her time ferrying her kids around, watering her plants, writing web content, SEO stuff, ghostwriting books and also indulges in the occasional Facebook-ing. Visit her <a href="http://www.marshamaung.blogspot.com" target="_blank">blog</a> for more dirty details on the life and times of a mother, writer, designer, housekeeper, coffee-maker, poop-wiper, chef...and just about everything else under the sun.
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