Recently, I have seen quite a few videos of TED Talk. I’m really impressed with a statement of Jon Jandai - a man living in small village in northeastern Thailand. He talked about “Life is easy. Why do we make it so hard?”. That question and his way of talking make me think a lot.
Life is hard because we make it hard
I think there are two types of people: first one is content with everythings and second one is always want more. Jon Jandai is frist type.
He dont need a convenient apartment which people need to works and save money 30 years to buy. He builds houses himself in his village. He accept things. He works a certain number of hours to get the basic essentials in his life such as raise animal, grow veggi, rice,.. of course by himself. He doesnt want to achieve too much but he is content with everything he has. He feels lighter.
Second type is us. Whatever we have, we want more. We tend to achieve the most, but even we get it, we are still not content. After achieve this one, we set new ones soon after.
Life is easy if we choose it to be.
Life isn’t hard if we dont expect much from it.
We want to have something beyond our ability. We want to do better than our friends. We want to be better looking than we really are.
We spending money that we have not had yet, on things we just like but we don't need, to impress people who we don't like.
We want too much and then we make our life so hard.
Life is made for joy, not for misery, right?
