When we learn how to appreciate small things

Written on October 12, 2006

What a great feeling to be successful! I know all of us are dreaming of becoming a successful person someday. The feelings wherein we are always happy because everything turns out to what we are expecting.


But success does not only measure the happiness of one person toward something. Success also comes when you are facing many difficulties and hardships in life. It is when you are able to continue your life without giving up and striving to move on from the failure that you have made. Yes, we are not perfect but we are not a failure. Nobody in this world was born to be a failure. We are here in this world to stand up from the things that we know is right and correcting from the mistakes that we've done. We must not say that we are not blessed because we always suffer from hard tests and problems... but we must be glad that we become stronger from the problems that we are encountering. Like what every body says, "There is a reason for everything." So, what we must do is to wait for that perfect plan for us. God has in store for each and everyone of us...(believe me).


Success does not also measure the experience of wealth and convenience. It does measure the perseverance of one person even from his or her difficult situation. Contentment is also a success. Being contented to what you have is a great sign that you are enjoying what God has given to you. If you are comfortable in this place, then why do you have to go other place and search for something that will satisfy your needs? Success comes when you realize that you can grow maturely in a way that God wants you to be. Going to somewhere, search for something better, find for greater opportunity.. well, those are not bad... Indeed, it is good that you want to explore for something which you do not experience yet.. but... and a BIG but... if you crave for that "thing" and be obsessed that you are thinking for your present life as a mess or something...well, that's not a success.. because you are being selfish. You still want to achieve for something which God has not given to you because He knows that you are already experiencing the blessing that He wanted you to have.

To sum it all up... let us be contented in what we have right now. Don't envy others because they have the blessing that you also wanted to have. God is a wise God. You will never know what will happen into your life... because God knows best. So, measure your success even from small things.. and you will learn how to appreciate everything... God bless us all!