I went to visit my 3rd Sis-in-law's blog (Muz @ Multiply) this morning... What I read in her latest blog made me recall those days when hubby and I, went thru our most unforgettable 'highs and lows' together...
From the moment we planned for our engagement, till the day we got married, got ourselves a home of our own and start our little family from scratch... During that time, about 4 years ago, the monthly salary that I received wasn't as much as anyone of you would think it would be... I was bringing back home $1300/- a month... Being the eldest in my family, responsibilities at home were always on me... From toilet cleaning, doing the laundry to cooking and even drilling and repairing of household stuffs...To add in to that, with some personal family problems, I was basically, frankly, in a stressful situation... Having hubby who was then, my future fiance, in National Service, really took a huge toll on me... He didn't have a fix job due to the freaking NS... Every day and every month, we struggled to save up enough money... Nak gi dating pon nak kena tengok budget... Kadang-kadang kena bawak adek pulak tu... We had people who always wanted to compete and compare their lives with ours... We had people who wasn't into the idea of us planning to get engaged and married... We had people who always looked down on our abilities just because we got so little pay... In other words, some people treated us like DIRT just because to them, we ain't got no money and our working designation wasn't that good enough... Well, come on you people!! Ni semua da basi la!! Only people with typical mentality would have the brains to think in that sort of way... pfft...
Alhamdulillah, hubby and I, we managed to brush their criticism and hatred towards us aside... Slowly but surely, we planned our way thru not bothering what others might say... Went thru a lot of obstacles together (Allah swt saje yg tahu)... Even up till now, we still can't believe that we did everything, I really mean EVERYTHING on our own without any financial help (about $20,000 to $30,000 in all came from our savings) given by anyone accept ourselves and with the help of The Almighty Allah plus with the support and encouragement given by our friends and relatives... The Almighty, He was always there for us thru good and bad times, saving us whenever we're in trouble, sharing our joy and happiness... For that, I'm always grateful and thankful to Him...
Here, I wish to thank all of them; people, who looked down upon our abilities and had contributed to all the problems that we went thru... From the bottom of my heart, thank you so much... If it weren't for you, we won't be able to face the challenges, mishaps, hardships and got this far... We won't be able to appreciate our hard earned efforts and we won't mature a step further in life... If it weren't for you people, we won't be what we are today... YES WE KNOW that there's still much for us to learn... Experience had taught us a lot!! Thank you so much for all the criticism and hatred that you people had towards us!!
During my teenage years, I always thought that having problems were a dread... This was because, I was too afraid to face and find a solution for it... I learned that problems won't exist if it weren't for us who created it...
So yeah, basically, I felt sorry for Muzliati (3rd Sis-in-law) and her hubby after all they've been thru coz hubby and me, we're in the same boat too...
To: Muzliati (and her hubby). Insya'allah, you guys will make it thru... Stay as low and as humble as possible... Pray and hope for the best... Insya'allah.. The Almighty never breaks His promise to His loyal servants... :)
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