One of the fundamentals in life is decision making. We always find ourselves in situations where we are forced to make choices. To have coffee or tea? To wear jeans or slacks? To watch another episode of Grey’s Anatomy or just go to bed? Decisions. Decisions. Decisions. Well I personally think that a majority of life’s decisions are like choosing between a McD burger or burger tamu (stall).
Each time I’m back in Brunei, I always look forward to eating a McD burger. Not those fish fillet or burgers that are suitable for vegetarians. But a real McD burger with real meat! The taste of meat, HALAL meat, between those two buns is just..awesome! If you want to shut me up or bribe me to shut up, a McD burger will surely do the job. That’s how much I love my McD burgers. As for burger tamu. For one, I hardly ever go to the tamu. Second thing is, the burgers they sell are not appetising at all. They’re all tiny and taste like any burgers that can be made at home. No wow-factor there. They’re just not as good as those McD burgers.
But let’s rethink the situation here.
McD burgers taste heavenly. Tamu burgers taste rather plain. But, McD isn’t the best company one would want to be associating with. Affiliation with Israel and its military and all that. So supporting McD is similar to supporting their affiliations. As for the tamu burgers, sure they don’t taste as good as McD burgers but they’re still burgers, right? They still keep the tummy full, right? And buying a burger from the tamu is like helping our own people and our own economy. So in the long run, there is some good in deciding to buy the burgers from the tamu rather than from McD. And surely we can forgo a bit of the pleasure we get from eating a McD burger for the greater good?
So yes. Life is fundamentally about choosing between your versions of McD burgers and a tamu burgers. Sometimes we just have to sacrifice those little pleasures in life that are nothing more than temporary, for the pleasures in the Hereafter that are most definitely permanent and lasting.
