speech contest???

i was just sitting down and just day-dreaming reminding myself that i should update my blog and stuff... just when i decided not too, i read an e-mail sent to me by a friend about various scams to rob, rape, and even ravage a person... i meant murder when i said ravage if you didn't get it... i was just thinking is money or material wealth so important to people now that we would even forsake the lives of others just to get the things we want? i sometimes ask God why he made flesh so weak in the midst of lust and luxury... politics, gangsterism, terrorism, religion, faith, beliefs and so many other things nowadays are used as tools to garner money instead of it's original purposes... and i wonder why, why do people do this...

a terrorist who kills innocent people because people rather buy a coke then the local cola? funny isn't it, this is terrorism these days... i remember a time where people trusted the people they chose to lead them, people followed a person because of the greatness of that person... what has become to these people now? we follow the lead of old men who only think of the benefits they will reap from these people who trust them... funny isn't it, this is what our politics have become... a person kills a little girl that was laughing happily with her mother, when the weeping mother asks him why did he kill her daughter, he answers coldly, 'because she didn't smile at me...' funny isn't it, that is how invaluable a life has become now...

in our rapid changing world, people view differently what is needs and luxury... having a 40 inch wide screen television set with surround sound seems more important then taking care of our mothers. believe me, that i maybe young but i've seen the terrible things humans are capable of, but i'm not saying i've seen everything either, but trust me when i say that nowadays priorities are lost in a vast land of where fame and luxury rules over famine and suffering. if given a chance to wish for something, who many people here would wish for peace over money? i don't believe that even half would, because that's just the way we have become...

sometime i feel like a hypocrite myself and most of you all would think so too... i wonder what i can do to change too, not the world, but myself... it would take a greater mind than mine to think of ways to change the world, i find it amusing that what so little change we do in our lives can change the lives of so many others and yet we fail to do so in so many cases. think, saving a little water, saving a little electricity, donating a little bit to charity, praying a bit more to God, all of this can affect and change this world even if not a bit. people might think that this small change might not affect anything at all, but how wrong these people are we should realize now. there is a proverb in my country, 'sedikit, sedikit, lama-lama jadi bukit...' those who know this proverb might be laughing at me right now because this proverb is what we learnt during our kindergarten years. it literally means, a little by a little eventually becomes a mountain, meaning that no effort is too small. we are human beings, when you think of it, we are one of Gods most sophisticated creatures. just moving one of my finger here is the work of millions of cells, electric pulses, muscles and so much more.

what we leave in this world when we leave it is a memory of ourselves in those people who think we made a differnces in their lives. we leave not a trail of money or fame in our deaths, just memories that people will cherish or despise. so it is up to you to chose between the two, you may think now it is an easy choice, but those who have seen the other side of the moon know, not always doing the right thing is right... prove me wrong, prove to me that we are not as bad and terrible as i have said... i'd be happy if you do so... thank you for listening to my speech here...