Official Title: The lesson I learn from Mother Teresa

One does not have to I believe have a vast amount of knowledge about Mother Teresa to know how much good work she had done during her life. She lived in the poorest areas of India. She lived a simple life with the understanding of people who are less privileged then her. She went to tend the hungry, ill, the children and outcaste people all her life with her sense of hope and strength that she could muster. She did not give hints of despair or hopelessness throughout her ministries. She did not want people that she helped see her darkness that she saw. People though could not remember that she was also a human being, just like any of us. Her darkness that she wrote about on her letters that was released through Time magazine said:

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as transliterated: Mother Teresa was corresponding with Archbishop Ferdinand Perrier in January 1947 about her task of opening the Missionaries of Charity in India was an overwhelming task that she saw as an uphill battle. India was/is a poverty stricken country with various issues ranging from diseases and or at that period, Hindu and Muslim violence bothered Mother Teresa.

Even with the despair and hopelessness, she continued to work on her calling, in the Christian terms. In the human terms, we do continue on our lives despite of doubts about the existence of God or some may say the Higher Power. YHWH, Allah* etc and list does not end here.

The message from Mother Teresa in life and death still remains: hope does not end here. Despair still remains. Works of goodness still need to be done by people who believe in just doing the good deeds without the rewards or seeing any results of ending the poverty in sometime near future. Her humanness can be seen by many people in different ways. In a number of ways, I mentioned I am a fan of Mother Teresa. Only not because of her works towards other human beings, its because she knew from deep inside her, she recognized that the rewards are few and deeds are important to perform despite lack of evidence of good results. Deeds that are performed, no matter how few or little each day, were/significant to the population of India (in Mother Teresa's instance).

Today social, economical, and various amount of controversial issues that are not being resolved today will not have an immediate solution for a long time coming. The only hope for us to see our problems ie: poverty, diseases, hunger and natural disasters solved would be working together for stopping conflicts around our cities, countries and the world. Until then, prayers, humanitarian aids, non-profit organizations, UN organizations and government aids or perhaps wishing upon the celestial stars may be our hope to the better future. Every little bit done matters. Eventually, the deed went noticed in a long way. Mother Teresa left the good legacy of a little bit of help matters.

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Official Title: The lesson I learn from Mother Teresa