Their Story of Life

 

Was watching a ‘reality show’ where the program captured the life of the unfortunate people in Indonesia. The show called “Orang Pinggiran”. I don’t know how true the content of the show is, but I believe they exist. The one thing that it teaches me is to be grateful.

 

Yesterday was about an old man who lived with his wife and a middle school age daughter. The old man main job is extracting rubber from the wild trees in the jungle. Everyday he needs to walk a total of 5 km to reach the middle of the jungle (10 km return ways) where trees that have become his main source of living exist.

 

The rubber can only be sold if he has collected 1 kg or above. He needs a week to collect a kilo weight rubber. Do you know how much it is sold? IDR60,000/kg. I could not imagine how can they survive with a total of IDR240,000 a month for a 3 persons household?

 

Sometimes, we spend IDR 60,000 for a meal; while some people like them need to survive for a week with the same amount of money, again a 3 person’s household! L

 

Have we thanked our life?