Stay grounded.

In a week's time, I will be free from all the studying, for now. It's the last stretch to reach that freedom, it's going to be tough, and I want to make it.

I went studying with a couple of my friends yesterday night, and two of them are living the pretty life. Money, babes, alcohol, everything that is considered taboo to the current society. They were talking about the lives in clubs and travelling all over the world, and they were speaking with such ease about throwing money away. Four-twenty meant $420 for a bottle of alcohol, but for the rest of us listening to them, this "four-twenty" meant $4.20 for a slightly overpriced meal. The difference between them and I is the way we view the value of money. What they can get in a day, is what I get in a month. The details doesn't matter.

After the study session was over, my other friend and I were talking while waiting for the first bus at 530am. With clear sober minds, we spoke of how our everything is so different between the rich and the poor. Then we realized that we are happy with the way things are going for us because we are easily satisfied. Don't judge, we may not have the wealth and all, but we have simplicity in our lives. The little things, like getting 20$ from my parents mean two extra meals for me, meant nothing to them. The perspectives of different things was just mind blowing. But we were not the least jealous, because that's their lives. And we should concentrate on living our lives instead of fantasizing of what we can't have that people have in theirs.

Here's something that intrigued me and got me thinking. It's old news, but it's gold.
Charlie Sheen Interview
Charlie Sheen and his Goddesses
It's such a hassle when ABC disable the embedding request.

It's these comments that made me think differently about Charlie Sheen.

Also, I read this short story in a book my friend had lent me. 

Paulo Coelho - Like the Flowing River

Moral of this post, live your life. Don't be a fool and try living other people's lives. What matters the most is your own story. Stay grounded till it's time to fly. Don't take flight when your wings have not fully grown. The stories I heard my friends told yesterday kept me thinking, and they made me stay grounded. I don't want to live the life like theirs. I'm happy with the one I'm living right now.

Your story don't end till you're six feet under.