The grass is always greener on the other side?

"The grass is always green on the other side" That was what I thought so as well when I was younger when I set of to Australia to study and then later to Singapore to work. Then I grew older and realized that, being single and staying overseas is never easy. For one thing you don't have your family and loved ones close by (unless you have a girlfriend/boyfriend or husband/wife with you). After making the money I had wanted to make in the first place over and over again, I started to realize that in fact, money is not everything. It's true what people say, but then, living alone, everything is money and at the end of the day, you're still alone. 

That's when I decided to move back to Malaysia, a place where, many things may not be right at the moment but it's somewhere I can be proud to be a citizen, not a permanent resident or foreigner. Now I believe that, no matter where you are, there are opportunities abound, you just need to know where and when to find it. Then I read the book 'The Alchemist' which further cemented my opinion about the whole thing. No matter what situation we are put in, we have the power to decide what we are going to do about it and how we want to end up. A close friend of mine once shared this with me, 'Whether you make it or not in life, we will find out when we are old. What a powerful statement. This blog post will serve as a reminder to me about that.