Be As Good As We Would

Be As Good As We Would

Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.
Ugliness is in the mind of the perceiver.
One man's meat is another's poison.
One man's pleasure is another's fearful prison.

One person's wealth derives from others' toil.
The food you eat comes from the Earth's soil.
One person's life derives from parents' hardship.
The efforts of your walk comes from the labour of your hip.

The blood-suckers, like mosquitoes, don't just suck blood,
They also spread diseases like malaria and dengue fever.
The ugly women do not think themselves ugly nor dud.
It's your own mind that harbours ugliness, whatsoever.

If your mind is pure, by nature or determined training,
You only perceive as pure and beautiful in everything.
Even the ugliest of the ugly appears beautiful in your mind.
So, be positive, generous, compassionate and kind.

Observe the children, see how innocent they are,
To the innocent children, their minds are still pure,
And everything to them is just simply wonderful!
They have neither the concept of ugly nor beautiful!

Be like an adult in your behaviour and thinking,
But be like children in your perception and living.
Like this, you will be very happy and successful,
And you will be open-minded and always grateful.

Those are what the wise have thought us to do,
And I can say I am as guilty as you, too.
Though no one is perfect in this imperfect world,
Still we can strive to make it as good as we would.

FOG -- 22 December, 2019.