Every morning, I pass by this side-walk vendor selling fish balls, fish cakes, squid balls as well as cuttlefish balls as I make my way to work. Almost every morning, I would get myself a bunch of deep-fried fish balls for breakfast.

 

Any one of those sticks, believe it or not, only cost 10 baht! The deep fried ones cost me 10 Baht too, but I get more than double the quantity. And every time I paid for them, I cannot even begin to tell you how amazed I am at how cheap those balls really are.

On the other hand, I wonder how does she even break-even when her charges are so low.Yet, she never fail to flash me a smile every time I walk past her.

This led me to think that, sometimes, the simplest people seem to be the happiest people in the world. They seem happy with what they have, make do with what they have, live life without imposing themselves on others and do not crave for what other people have which they can’t have.

Why can’t we all be that way?