The responsibilities of a human being

I was having a conversation with a colleague, and realized that it's really not easy to try to be a good human being who fulfill lifetime responsibilities. Take a female manager for example:

1. Her parents - to be a good, filial daughter
2. Her husband - to be a loyal, devoted wife
3. Her children - to be a loving and caring mother
4. Her employer - to be a hardworking, helpful worker
5. Her subordinates - to be a just and admirable leader
6. Her in-laws - to be a patient, giving daughter in law

and the list goes on and on. Funny how people are expected to shoulder such lifetime responsibilities naturally. Some people adapt to the roles, some fumble with just one role, and either choose to escape from reality or ruins his own life. Average people manage to execute 4 roles well; some saints shine in all.

To me, I can adapt in any situation and shift from one role to the other with ease, and that is because I am extremely fortunate to be raised in a happy family with the greatest parents. I believe that my positive outlook on the world is due to the endless support, love and care I know i can count on my parents to provide me with in life. When everything fails me, they are the only ones standing to protect me. Not even once they complain about their hardship and all these years, let me have the luxury of going overseas to study, to go traveling -- all by being stringent on their own spending.

All they want is to raise my sister and I to become hardworking, dedicated, happy girls who go on to build our own close-knit and joyful family. They never pressurized us to become who we are not, encourage us to chase after our own dreams, and just hope that we will complete each stage of life in a fulfilled, happy way.

My dad tells us all the time : "As long as your mother, you and your sister are happy, i'm happy".That's the way life should be lived, people. Learn from my daddy, whose life goal mission is to provide a great, healthy and safe shelter for us.

Take responsibility as a life goal to be achieved, and you'll never feel burdened.