Growing up .. Anything could happen,

Sometimes it doesn't take much for you to realise how unpredictable the future may become and your life might just take a drastic change within seconds.
It gave me an opportunity to take a few steps back on my busy schedule to look at my life now and compared it to the same day I was 5 years ago, and 10 years ago.
What was apparent to me was my environment changed and most amazingly the way I evaluate and handle situation changed.  10 years ago I was a very dependant young lad, complaining and trying to be as rebellious as possible.  Being a teenager, challenging my parents advice in every possible way and didn't care less for the future.  The constant nagging and advice from them came to me as a punishment and I hated that.   But most amazingly, the harsh actions they showered me shaped me to who I am today.
The transition from being under the wing of my parents to soaring the skies on my own was surprisingly not a hard one, and when I stop and looked back I started to know why.  I came from a medium classed family, but unlike most of you, at a very young age I was forced to accept the harsh reality of life.  I went to school envying my friends who had pocket money when I had none.  I played with toys that my friends has because I have none.  When friends would start to discuss a TV show that was screened the previous night I would seat quietly and just listen afraid that they would asked if I have seen the show because my house didn't have one.  Ridiculous as it may sounds but I lived without TV for the entire primary and secondary school life, that is a whopping 12 years period.   Not because my parents can't afford it but they just wouldn't buy it for me.  Asking money from my parents became something I fear, because of the constant nagging and rejection time and time and time again.  I came to realise quickly that the only way to get what I want is to I have my own money. I started working part time jobs to earn my own money.
Looking back .... hanging out with friends, buying snacks, clothes, laptop, phones, studying abroad, car,  all of them mostly I had to use my own money.  My dad didn't believe in the philosophy of providing anything else other than the necessity, but wants me to work for it.  He became my bank broker and would provide me with loans and I would have to pay him back.  This pushed me to the edge, had me quickly learn that its me against the world and to rely on no one else.
Fast forward into the present, I realised because what I have gone through, I am a stronger person.

What triggered me having this thought was an incident that happened a few hours ago while I was busy working as usual when I slipped and landed hard on my back on the edge of the stairs.  It was raining heavily and I laid on the ground drenched with water clenching my teeth with pain and trying my best to get up but my legs just wouldn't budge for a whole good minute.  I drove to the nearest clinic for a check up and was in excruciating pain.  While waiting for my name to be called, I recalled how lucky I was because if I were to twitch a little and landed square on my backbone or if my head were to hit the stairs it would have done some serious damage.  Thank god for protection.  Although I am in pain now and couldn't even lean forward I am pretty grateful that nothing serious was inflicted. It came to me as a reminder that life is indeed fragile and you don't need to wait for something drastic to happen before appreciating it.  Anything could happen ...  everyone knows that we will eventually die but no one wants to believe in it, because if we did, we would be living our live's differently.