Is There Really Something To Be Envious About?

      Thanks to social networking sites, we are now in communication with friends and former colleagues that we have lost touch with over several years. Add that to the photos on display for each profile so you could be sure that the person you are "adding" as a friend really is somebody you know from the past.

     Pictures from vacations abroad or with a luxurious background are posted everywhere, which begs me to think, should we be envious that they get to see other places that we aren't even sure if we will get to visit in our lifetime? 

     Call me hypocritical but when I see my son and husband sleeping beside me, all else seems to pale in comparison. At the current state the economy is in, we might be pinching around the corners a little bit and tightening the belt once-in-a-while but the love and support that we give each other is enough to get us through day-in and day-out.

     Then my mind suddenly goes back to an old saying that God gives you what you need and not what you want. That everything happens for a reason. It might not be the reason that you want to hear but there is a reason nonetheless.

     I then begin to remember about a relative, thrice removed, who is said to be rich, yet when she passed away (God bless her soul), we were really surprised that not one of her children came to give her a proper burial. From the first day that her body was collected from another relative's residence up to the day she was supposed to be buried, her body simply lay in the morgue. Only the funeral parlor employees took care of her and she was buried without even a simple mass to mark her passing. Sad isn't it? 

     Being rich may mean that you get and do almost everything in life but it doesn't necessarily buy you happiness.

     Which brings me back to the question -- should I be really envious of the status of friends and former colleagues? In a way YES but in a huge part NO. How about you?