When I was at your age, I'd...

We could all look happy and cheery on the outside, but who knows what we're actually are on the inside.

Tom Cruise might be the most eligible metrosexual guy on the outside , but who knows what problem he has on the inside?

Paris Hilton might be Guess girl, heiress of Hilton chain of hotels, gorgeous babe whom every men covets and every woman would love to hate.But I'm just wondering what's her biggest problem - would it be the zits? The money? The boy she admires? The simple life she wish she has?

Everyone has a problem, and we wish we'd live in someone else's life. Someone better than us, someone who's more beautiful, richer, more famous, smarter, funnier, (sarcatic-ier???) , the list of superlatives goes on... and so is our appetite for better living. We bat our eyelids when we see a young executive driving the latest Merc class-S or the BMW 7-series, we'd be gossiping that perhaps this girl has a rich sugar daddy or the guy has a golden spoon in his mouth when he was born, but in the same time wishing secretly in our heart that it was us behind that wheel, and not that rich-spoilt-brat. Ever felt that way? Hands up! You're not the only one.

In our pursue of good living, we almost certainly tell ourselves everyday that success only comes with hardwork, perseverance,alot of sweat,blood and tears.That's what our grandma and our parents used to tell us. "When i was ur age, I used to ..." - cook, clean, sweep, walk 10 miles a day - all suggesting that we , the younger generation has no idea what life is all about.There's no hardship in our lives ; we barely need to know how to cook our own meals cos there's always McDs , nor do we need to sweat under the sun because we have the air-conds in cars, if not LRTs. Our maids take care of our clothes , we save the time of washing and ironing to "do better things" such as playing online games or watching Astro.Guilty of that too?

Somehow , the past generation believes that you gotta be sad, down and out in order to achieve happiness in the end. All our books says so, how we have to endure pain to achieve happiness. Maybe the time has changed. Maybe some people has happiness readily in their lives. Not by hardship, but by grumbling less and appreciating simple things in their lives . I need to learn that too.