Time Machine

This conversation took place in a taxi when we went home from PIM this evening:

You: Jimmy Neutron has a time machine. I want one too…
Me: Why?
You: Well, if I have one, I will let you use it…
Me: What for?
You: You can push the button to make everything goes fast. So you can work faster at the office and finish early
Me: And then?
You: And then you can pick me up from school, every day…..

Hmmm, if that’s the case, yes, I would want one too, honey. But, as I said before, in life, we cannot have everything that we want. We get some, we lose some. But no matter what, let’s just be thankful for the life we have, coz I know for sure, we are among the luckiest people in the world.

Just look around you, people in East Java are losing their homes because of the Lapindo disaster, children in Papua have to walk for hours before reaching their school, and all those construction workers that you see working for the Pondok Indah underpass, they have to leave their family in their hometown to be able to earn money. Not to mention all those babies in the orphanage who don’t have their mom and dad holding them at nights….

So, honey, aren’t we among the luckiest people? Even when we don't have that time machine.