Our Own Privileges

a short story about two close friends, a caterpillar and snail

Do you have struggles ? we all do, and nobody else knows what it's like to be in your shoes. But shouldn't that have to get in the way for us to empathize with each other's tough experiences ? 

Sometimes you are caterpillar 

you feel like someone's bugging about your easy life, said "it must be easy for you to blablah , because you are blahblah then you have blahblah". Deep inside,  you feel like this person in front of you know nothing about you. Your struggles, your pain, your hopes, your dreams, or your secrets. 

Sometimes you are snail 

you feel like why does this person in front of me can be so easily talking and bragging about this and that stuff. Does he really intend to hurt me or it's just the way he talks as usual ?

Judgement

the caterpillar doesn't even know how it's like to have a shells and so-easy-to-get stuck everywhere while he focusing on what he has, having 16 feet and found it hard to find many pairs of shoes to go to party. On the other side, the snail actually doesn't mean that caterpillar have had it easy all this time, she just want him to understand there weren't always be perks of having shells, she knows she really get stuck and couldn't go under fence.  

"Do you even know what it's like to have 16 feet? You dont. because finding my shoes is a complete night-mare "

" I'm not saying you have it easy. my shell. that's it. there's some stuff that's easier for you that's harder for me. Just like, I don't know jack about finding shoes... 

because , i dont even have feet ..." 

I thought that the main message (or the main cause) from caterpillar is that life shouldnt be that simple to always think about what we had. It's really important to see things from the other side.We can help each other overcome those obstacles, together. Its like sometimes you are snail. sometimes you are caterpillar, 

Sometimes people who complained about their life. they didn't intend to kick about and hurt our ears, they just want us to understand their struggles. that's it.

Sometimes people who said some stuff which seems to brag about their achievement, they didn't mean to hurt us, it might have been  the way God's hands worked to bring the best for us.

Look higher as a motivation, not to feel as an inferior

Look to those below you as it will more likely remind you of the favours Allah has bestowed upon you

:)