Make everyday Mother's Day........

It has been a depressing week, no, not because I lost in Forex trading or I did not make any sales from PIPS and definitely not because it was Mother's Day this Sunday. It was the many losses of innocent lives that has made the headlines. Not long after the cyclone Narjis has hit Myamar, a major earthquake has shaken China. Thousand of lives were lost and millions more will be suffering in the aftermath. These are the natural disasters that we have no control and yet there are many man-made disasters which could have been avoided - the never-ending conflicts in the Middle East and elsewhere, the hatred of mankind against fellow men.

Back to Mother's Day. I was having a family dinner with my son and daughter and their mother (i.e. my wife) to celebrate Mother's Day at Chili's in KLCC. We had attended earlier a wonderful concert by the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra (MPO) at the magnificent Petronas Philharmonic Hall. It was an all-American programme of Bernstein, Barber and Copland. This was my son's first live concert and it was my way to help him ease his pain of breaking up with his girlfriend recently but I'm not sure if it helped or did it make it more painful with the tragic finale of the Symphonic Dance from West Side Story? Relationship, like life, can be very fragile and it can end before you know it. Anyway, we enjoyed our dinner and we also had a wonderful view of the glorious KLCC park from where we sat. The park also has some delightful fountains that dances in different formations. But it will always come to an abrupt end, and like life, extinguished at short notice, or none at all.

We take life for granted and until we lose it, we do not appreciate the many beautiful things around us. Sure, not everyone will enjoy an afternoon of classical music (my daughter found it boring and was feeling sleepy in an earlier concert) but everybody can enjoy a stroll in the KLCC Park and take in the majestic view of the Petronas Twin Towers for free while it is still there. I hope it will not go the way of the other twin towers but you'll never know what men can do.

We must be thankful to our own God (in whatever form or name you call him) that we can wake up in the morning alive and begin another day; that we can still breath the dawn air, although a little polluted; that we can still read our emails and trade online although the internet connection is a bit slow. We must appreciate whatever that we have (maybe so much less than our neighbours) and treasure our loved ones while they are still around or when we are still around. So in our pursuit of financial freedom, let us not forget that we are only in transit on this earth and let us spare a thought and share some moments with those that we may have neglected. It need not be 5-star dinning or a 5-star concert, it can be just some words that were not said or some gestures that were not made.

So let's make everyday Mother's Day (or Father's Day, or whatever Day you want to call it) and share a little time with the ones you care for as some of us may not see Mother's Day next year.

Cheers,
Ronald Kwok
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