TWO SIDES OF LIFE

Every day as I commute to work I can't help noticing the society that surrounds me. 

Beautiful and expensive cars cruising by on the other side of the road a man completely lost in his own world of thoughts. The man looks sad and the sound of the passing vehicles does not seem to disturb him at all. His face shows no reaction to the passersby he is really in his own world. 

As I continue walking I meet people complaining about so many things that are just going wrong in their day to day living. How they can not afford this or that, how their landlord is increasing their rent but not fixing their house. On the other hand there are those happily talking about their newly built house and their new projects, to buy more land and fields, more cars and so on.

Then I am at the entrance to the main hospital in Blantyre, all I see are sad faces, people coming from seeing the sick, others look so hopeless as they have just given up on hope. There are those who are so sick that they dont care how they look all they wish for is if they could feel better again and live a normal life.

A woman walks to me and says, " please give me the little that you have so I can buy a banana to eat". I look straight in her eyes she is hungry, her voice is shaky and she is out of breath, not from running but because she does not have enough energy to walk in the heat of the sun. She continues " I have been waiting all morning on the queue to get my medication but they have closed for lunch".

As I arrive at my destination, I kept telling myself what a life! There are just two sides of life, you are either happy or sad. Whether rich or poor, young or old, just like a coin has two sides so does life. The heads or tails of life is just  happy or sad! Unfortunately unlike the coin, you don't choose in advance which side of life you want.

What a life!