Life is Sad
By SinRealm
@SinRealm (558)
Philippines
January 11, 2011 12:16pm CST
I notice how much people here waste their lives working away from their loved ones just to earn for their loved ones. Many parents spend most their time working and have no time for their children, couples working long distance from each other and not experiencing each other's company, families getting separated because of their jobs. This just sucks. Life is short, every time we spent away from those who are precious to us cannot be bought back with the money we earn. If only there is a way to change the way things go we wouldn't have to be this way. We work for ourselves and those special to us but if we lose them because of the work or the distance, then what is the point?
Just sharing something that I experience over and over.
6 responses
@cbjones (1147)
• United States
11 Jan 11
I respect, and understand your point of view. At times, it does suck. No doubt about that. You sometimes find yourself making sacrifices in the short term, for a long term gain.
I find these struggles actually make the pay off that much more enjoyable. I'm anticipating the day when I can look back at all of the goals I've accomplished and say that I am do with working, and can live off the fruit such labor bared. The journey you take on ends up being a jump off for the destination.
@thaMARKER (2503)
• Philippines
12 Jan 11
i'm in this situation but not entirely. i'm working away from home since i graduated. it's really sad because i seldom see them and talk to them. i work at an odd hours so it's hard to connect our time.
whenever i get sick, i remember my mother would always see to it i take meds on time. whenever i wake up late, no worries cause there's already food. whenever i want to talk, i have my father or mother.
but i have no choice. im just being practical. but it doesnt and would never change my relationship with my family especially with my parents.
@bird123 (10632)
• United States
12 Jan 11
We all have the power to choose what we deem important in life. Perhaps people need to reevaluate their choices. They say we all Find the time to do what is really important to us. It's not always how much time we spend with loved ones. It's the quality time that counts. At least make every moment you can worthwhile. You might think you will have your loved ones forever but that can change in an instant.
@rainbowink (296)
• Philippines
12 Jan 11
Sorry to hear that. I too am a bit sad of this fact. This is the irony of life that we have to deal with every single day. The thing that cheers me up though is that when we see each other again, I feel tha passion, the intimacy, the love, the care ever so better than I last saw them (talking about family, friends and the love of my life). This is why we have to make the most of our time with them.
@EdnaReyes (2622)
• Philippines
12 Jan 11
Being a family is not only being together. One has to make sacrifices to make the family bonded. If the family has to be separated because of work, let the family go through it as family. Make the best of it by doing what's best for all. Share your duty, don't make this as an excuse for fretting, share the burden as well as the benefits of it and then make way for the family to be together without forsaking the reaps of a good job.
@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
12 Jan 11
I totally agree with you. Lots of families were broken because one of the parents is away to work abroad.
Though, the children were given all the comforts but they have become braggarts and spoiled and so with the left spouse. They weren't able to experience how it is to be a family. Some have no savings because they were all always spending on many unnecessary things.
Sad though it may be, but they do it in order to have lots of money however, the family may not be intact anymore and in some, no savings were left after working for so many years abroad.
