Sunday, June 25, 2006

Beautiful Strangers

There are people capable of touching others’ lives without any sheer trace of effort. People who could trade a lifetime’s wish for an infinitesimal craving. People who could forget paternal compulsions just to breathe the spur of the moment. People who endure long years of studying just to figure out another path distinct from what they’re treading. People who found their goals not based on financial merits but that of moral principles. People who count not how many times they’ve fallen and got bruised but how they managed to rise back up with their heads held up high and their feet on the ground. People who manage to be grateful for being instruments to resolve others’ qualms at their own expense. People who could be beautiful even in the eyes of strangers.

I am just so fortunate to be surrounded with, or at least have encountered people such as them who constantly inspire me to hope and be a blessing. To look forward to a world filled with people like them would seem to defeat the meaning of reality. But the idealist in me believes that it is more rewarding to hope for a perfect world rather than just succumb to the cancers of indifference. After all, our legacy will be measured not by how much we have acquired but how much we have contributed.