Contentment...

Hey,

So i been all over the place the last few days, well and truly nailed Cali and even went south to Mexico, which isnt that different from many places in California where there is large his-spanic speaking communities. I found out that his-spanic actually means Spanish speaking people, so technically doesn't mean Brazilian but the rest of south and central American communities, i guess it was always going to be natural migration where the south and central Americans will slowly infiltrate North where there is the land of opportunity and supposedly a land offering a better life than the one they are in. However I sincerely beg to differ, after spending time int he US, yep its has its positives and negatives like most places but for me the negatives for outweigh the negatives in living here.

I met this Russian waitress in a Shisha bar the other night in LA, and she was telling me how she works 2 jobs, and has been here a year, she loves it but says how shes always working, and its hard to make a living with the high costs of living and the way things are, i mean i think there are ways you can make money here and its an entrepreneurs dream with the opportunities available, but im quite averse to most business and money making things personally, im just not geared that way, i much prefer a normal job and just a normal salary, I really wish i was wired to be set up like a business and after seeing the social network (which i highly recommend) it shows just how one good idea and some luck and you can just be on your way, but the thing is with Mark Zuckerburg, he managed to make the right decisions, ie he didnt sell out too early or go for advertisements when others would have, and you think what if i made that decision to sell up to early. In the film, it explains the history of the guy who set up the Victoria Secret (the lingerie shop)and how basically he sold it for like something like 10 million and like 2-3 years later it was worth 500 million and he committed suicide, and the thing is he didnt even set it up in the first place for a business but something for his wife or something, and then it made me think how the most important thing one can do is be satisfied with what we have i guess and for some its to do with accepting that not everything is always equal on the surface. However as a Muslim, we must believe in equality, and so thats why i said on the surface, because we believe in a Just God and therefore the world must be just and balanced if not now, it will be later, and so that kinda gets you by, when you face those times where you think how does that person live or feel (when you see poverty or persecution)...



Contentment, is often a word i use in my life, as people ask me why i am so happy or always smiling, firstly im not, and secondly when i am, its down to contentment, there are many other people who are more fortunate than i am in every sense fo the word, relgious, better looking, richer, intelligent, etc etc but the important thing is to be happy with one self, i mean of course there are things we all want to change within each other but im really content and i guess because of this contentment i dont have the drive to do businesses i guess or like investments i dunno because at the moment im content regarding my life but i guess if I was like a new immigrant, like my father, or the his-spanic community in USA then inshallah (God willing) i would have that drive like the new immigrants have but because im 2nd generation i dont have anweay im off to magic mountain inshallah today! so will write soon!

Anyway a bit more about my trip, so i went to San Diego and its a really beautiful city, i was highly impressed it was very military centric as its right on the boarder but despite that or maybe because of it, its a really stunning place. LA on the other hand is like any other large city in that its got its nice neighbour hoods but generally its quite grimey...so not been hugley impressed! If i was to move i would either go for San Fran or San Diego as the other cities havent really done it for me!


Take care

Asif