Who Says Gift is A Luck?

A teenage wrote that her friend looked as luck as Argus McSwine. Each time the friend goes for door prize or lottery, she always wins. Then each people say that she’s a lucky one. Once there was a lottery and the lucky girl prefers not submitting for it. Then her friends accuses her snobbish. So the lucky girl joined only for “pleasing” her fellas. And guess what, the lucky girl won again!

The teenage asked in her blog, is there anyone that lucky? Always lucky in every circumstances? I was gonna answer her, but there had been too many people commenting there and I didn’t think my comment would mean much. So instead, I decided to write it in my blog.. :-p

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My mom won a radio compo many years ago. Accidentally, she got it coz her bank account won a lottery. It was a gift, and she kept it well.

But then, my mom was bored to listen to the radio. Radio nowadays play lotta of heavy metal, while she preferred seventies. Finally she just let the radio laid on the coffee table and long then, the radio didn’t work. The sound was dimmed, and it was a lotta noise. I was confused, how could a radio be ruined though we never used it? Was it coz it was old or it “got upset” coz we never used it?

I said, we’d rather throw the radio away. Some tramp would take it and sell it to electrical engineering students. But my mom refused wasting it, coz it was a door prize. She preferred serve it to technician.

Day by day, months have changed, and it’s been years, but my mom keeps leaving the radio in her room’s corner and hasn’t fixed it yet. I got upset. If the radio wasn’t there, the table could be used for putting my dad’s glasses coz he loves reading before sleep. Don’t they think that each inches count?

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That’s a small example. I have an aunt who works for a small clinic. A few years been working there, the clinic’s owner pays her for haji pilgrimage at Mecca. She was so excited. Coz going to Mecca costs a lot, and my aunt couldn’t afford it.

Then years are gone by. My aunt is getting old. Inflations keep going on and the stuffs’ price raising higher. But my aunt don’t get more salary. While I’m sure, if only she’d work for some other place, she could live a better life.

Now she’s been more than 50. She should be retired soon. It was a heavy the working burden she’s been carrying about and she can’t get holiday even just a day. If she wanna have holiday, she must find someone for replacing her so the clinic keeps operating. But there’s no other doctor who agrees to work right there, coz the salary is too small.

My aunt doesn’t wanna get retired, either. Coz without working (in that place), she feels useless. I think she’s afraid of losing herself more than losing her job. Moreover, I feel she’s not comfy to resign coz she feels owe to the clinic’s owner who has paid her for haji pilgrimage.

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Job, reward, and door prize. People often assume it as luck. We often forget that getting it sometimes lead for problems. My mom’s radio makes my pops losing space for placing things. Job troubles my aunt for retired. And free haji pilgrimage scares my aunt to resign.

Actually it’s all depending on how we manage the things that we’ve gotten. Gift may be a luck, but it can lead to suck. Any gift comes to other people, don’t always make good in our own hands. That’s why, let the gift not make us being luck, but it rather makes us being blessed.