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(I felt like sharing a very talented sister’s work)
It seems that sometimes,
We get so caught up in the moments that
We tend to forget
What had actually mattered .
We grow up from not being able to care to not bothering to care
And we desperately get consumed in what we think is important,
So we become blind to what is actually important.
Everything that happens always seems so in our faces,
That we forget to smile.
We forget to enjoy the small beauties of life.
Our problems seem insurmountable
That we forget to be grateful for all of the things
That are going right.
And we take from people and just keep taking
We forget to even bother to thank them.
We grow old enough
To be looking back and thinking
Of all things that we could have done but never bothered to.
We always assume that it’s too late and
We are incurable.
Too much time has gone by
And not enough actions that actually mean something.
But what if it’s not too late
What if we just bothered to remember.
Just bothered to remember
To not live a self-consumed life,
That money isn’t everything,
And happiness can cure anything.
We bothered to remember
To be grateful that
Amidst all the things that are going wrong
There will always be things going right
And if nothing else,
The sky is still blue.
We bothered to remember
To say
Thank you
I have yet again used you,
Next time I’ll be the one that helps you.
We bothered to remember
To look back once again
That even though our lives seem
So terrible
There may just be someone
Who is worse off.
To remember the less fortunate
And reach out our hands a little
Further than they usually extend.
So we bothered to remember
Not the big things
But all of the little ones.
And we did them so often that they became part of us
We became a little less self consumed
And started to care for others.
And when we did grow old enough
To be looking back,
We had actually done something worth the while.
We had lived with no regrets because
One day we had remembered
We had just bothered to remember,
And we bothered to remember for the rest of our days.
-By Mahum Kamran
MY Voice is a non-profit, youth-run organization that strives to empower youth by providing them with opportunities to exercise their creativity through a positive media platform.
One Reply to “To Bother to Remember (By M.Kam)”
Haya
25 Apr 2014I love it. You have a natural talent for laying out your feelings!
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