We bought a new expensive TV last year, one of those big flatscreen things. Well it burned out a month ago. Boy were we pissed, it took 2 weeks to get an appointment for repair guy, 2 weeks for parts to come in and THEN they realized they ordered the wrong parts. So its gonna be another 2 weeks. WHAT a waste of our money!!! I was SOOOO blazing mad.,
but then. i started thinking about our loved ones and just the people in general over in Pak…
I am SOO blessed and SOOO lucky, I have food in my refig, more food available at the store, clean running water and we’re all in good health (Mashallah).
what a spoiled brat I was to be so angry over such a small, inconsequential thing.
but still you dont have a TV...just think of everything youre gonna miss!
on a serious note
It doesnt matter whether a disaster has happened on the other side of the world or not...most of us on this forum live lives of incredible ease and comfort compared to billions of people on this planet.
LD, you are so right. There was this sign in our docs office that I wanted to copy...it was long but basically it said "if you can put 3 meals a day on your table, if you can eat meat at least twice a week, if you can keep your family warm in the winter and cool in the summer....then you are within the top 9 PERCENT of RICHEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD"
its just that these disasters tend to remind us spoiled ones of just how very lucky and blessed we are
ld, yes, its still under the standard 1-year warranty so it isnt costing us any money, only annoyance! We will be purcasing an extended warranty now too since it runs out within a few weeks and we have no confidence in its reliability!
Mama, why isn't that punk of a man..handling this...why do you have to take time out of your spa schedule to deal with such trivialities of life...what should I get for lunch. hmmmm
Ok, I see various flaws in comparision here. You can't compare bad TV with good health. Not having TV for few weeks and being thankful for your cancer-free, heart-disease-less, brain-tumor-lacking etc health is way too dramatic. If you must bring health into equation while suffering from lack of TV then I suggest something like comparing with seasonal influenza of someone who can't watch TV even if he has one 'cause of flu. That way you're comparing tragedy (your tv situation) with irony (someone's have-tv-but-can't-watch-tv). Poetically correct and just.
The reason that we need to compare apples to apples (or at least something that tastes like apple) is 'cause we don't want to lose sight of the apple or the value thereof. If we compare orange to apple then we'd be content with just the orange and won't even reach for the apple, which in turn, is going to go rotten anyway sitting like that. And you know what a bad apple does to other apples sitting around it, right?.
Translation: The dog days of ramadan, when I, Roman, am fasting – albeit a spiritual experience-- bring out in me an almost banal stream-of-consciousness, manifesting itsellf in the form of slurred speech and covoluted logic due to a lack of sugar in my brain.
Roman bhaijan, I read that post, like, three times. And everytime i read…well, is there a punch line?
