InspiredByProverbs

I am a Christian girl who is now lost and find myself in a limbo that do not know what to do next but to write. I’ve been blessed by God to worked in different countries and ended up being stuck in the first world country of United States of America. I will be honest with you this is the country that I didn’t like to stay at before. It is because most of the people who live in our village have relatives in US and I knew that most of them have more than one job in order to cope up with the high cost of living. I found it horrible because I feel that it is tiring to work most of your life and ending up having no social life at all. But apparently here I am, experiencing the real life in America.

Most of us have a great connotation about United States. Being grown up in a village in the Philippines, with neighbors whose relatives are frequently sending them “balikbayan” boxes, gave me the impression that people in US are all rich. Balikbayan box means cargo box full of imported goods from other country and of course, Spam, Corned Beef, Chocolates, Levi’s jeans, Hanes shirts are always present. I feel bad that I was carried away with that thought and I completely forgot the fact that they have to work hard to be able to afford to buy those stuffs.

When I first visited US in 2013, I can’t believe with what I’ve seen. Poverty is rampant. Homelessness exist. I was speechless and all I said to my ex-boyfriend who is now my husband was the struggle of Will Smith in the Pursuit of Happyness movie is real!

It’s a wake-up call to me. I have realized that no matter where we are at, it is our self who are solely responsible for what we are right now and where our cash flow is leading us. There is nothing wrong to enjoy life to the fullest, there is nothing wrong to pamper ourselves and get massage once in a while, there is nothing wrong to eat out, there is nothing wrong to have a vacation somewhere else, nor buy luxurious stuffs to pacify ourselves, but the big question is, are we WISE enough to do it?