I am NOTHING,yet EVERYTHING I had is ME

BY: CHARLES MALIA

Good morning! How are you?

I want to close your eyes! Shh.. just close your eyes and be silent.

NOW, what do you see?

NOTHING, because you just close your eyes, right? Yet that nothing is you. That nothing is
the inner you. The YOU in a vast world where you can BE YOURSELF.
The YOU, where there is nothing to WORRY ABOUT. But just in your own imagination.
Now, I want to open your eyes, what do you see?

The building?, the trees?, your classmates? Well ,just describe them as whole. What is it?
Yep. The world. The world that was once beautiful, but have been dumbfounded in it’s misery
The world where people lead in it’s INNOVATION.A place where people lead world’s innovation
to DESTRUCTION.

You can wonder why I’m still smiling despite of my difficult times. Having strict and busy
parents. Having the worst kind of siblings, who have you get to do their homeworks despite you
want to sleep, but I never complained about it NOW because they are a part of me. After all, “I
have nothing, yet everything all I had is ME, but before that I used to question a bunch of people
to achieve and care for everything that I have in myself today.

Let me tell you a story,

I once found myself in a great misery. I thought in myself that: being someone makes them
to accept you, that having a lot friends is good and beneficial, having money could make you
feel rich and contented, having knowledge makes you stand tall and shine bright upon others,
having to defend yourself makes you STRONGER THAN ANYONE.

I feel lost because people are always backbiting me and I just feel there’s always WRONG about
me, so I asked a teacher:

What is the most happiest thing in life?

And she answered, BEING COMPASSIONATE TO YOURSELF AND OTHER.I said, Why??
And she said, There is a purpose for everyone you meet. Some people come into your life to test
you.Some to teach you. Some to test you and Some to bring the very best in you.I nodded and I
continue doing things that I really love just like feeding kids and caring for people,especially those
who are in need.

But I don’t see yet the happiness that I desire,I have the skills and knowledge,yet I felt like
WORTHLESS.So I asked a businesswoman the same question,what is the happiest thing to do in
life?And she smiled and said. LEARN THE VALUE OF YOUR MONEY.

And I yelled at her, I thought that the money makes the world go round.
She replied gently,
No my son,
Money can buy a house,not a home, a bed,but not sleep, a clock but not time
a book but not knowledge, food but not an appetite, friends but not love, position but not respect,
blood but not life, insurance but not safety,religion but not faith.

That’s why I try to earn a living and start a small business and I really experienced the
hardwork of our parents just to earn to the money,that they have to face all the challenges despite
knowing that money can’t buy everything.Yet that money was not all for me. It’s for all the person
whom I cared

Yet I am struggling of my own self,because I’m a person who used to OVERTHINK .I think
that the problem is in my mind and I am crazy to do things around.So I ask a psychologist,What is
the most happiest thing in life?He replied, Being MINDFUL OF YOUR ACTIONS AND THINKING.
I asked Why?He replied,MIND is not dustbin for ANGER,HATRED AND JEALOUSY,but a TREASURE
BOX to KEEP HAPPINESS and SWEET MEMORIES.

Achieving all I want for my mind and myself and understanding how to handle my
emotions.Having all these dreams in life,but I found nothing special in my life.I just didn’t really
found the true meaning of happiness and days after that I found a monk. Yet before I ask him, he
just stood up and said ,What truth do you seek my child?and I just said: What is the most happiest
thing in life ?

Yet he answered : BEING CONTENTED OF WHAT YOU HAVE AND LEARNING TO LET GO.
And I said,Why?And he said,Happiness is a choice,not a result.Nothing will make you happy Until
you chose to be happy.No person will make you happy unless you decide to be happy
Your happiness will not come to you.It will only come from you.

Yet all those answered made the every part of my life special and makes me whole again,
those pieces make me “ME” and those things that you have makes you “YOU”.At the latter part I
understand, what life is about and I hoped you learned how valuable you are.

So I wrote this last piece to you and I want to close your eyes again as you tell it to yourself:
Tell to yourself:
Everything will work out.Things will get better.You are so important.You are worthy
of great things, lovable things.The time is now. This too shall pass.You can really be who
you are.The best is yet to come.You can do this.

An lastly say it to yourself out loud , I am NOTHING, yet EVERYTHING I had is ME.

Thank you folks, Goodmorning!