(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
