Something is above Money

Something is above money

Either he does not come or come to meet the right time when my home meal is on the table. Yes, this is his style of life, you don’t worry, that he’ll help himself with bowl and chopsticks. We often stay together so I know what he is made of. We go out maybe for a trip, a meal, shopping or playing. You must be rare to see him take his purse out of his pocket. Most of the time, especially some girls are out there, you never expect that he would spend a cent for the bill. He know me totally that I’ll do it. Yes I do indeed, without other choice. Absolutely it’s impossible to depend on him and I don’t want the occasions to be awkward. Don’t be laughed at by girls or somewhat just for money I think. My mom said you’d better stop dealing with him. I once selfishly thought that I’d dead got sick of him maybe it was time to reduce frequency of meeting him. But for some moments, for some affairs, we can be unanimous and help each other. He is a good friend, who may give you a hand when you meet with obstacles you are unable to overtake sometimes. Human being has faults and friends are no exception.

Last night he was over here. A big guy said with a frown he was upset, at a loss. The upcoming wedding already swallowed his most of brain cells, he was going nuts. I was really confused, and I never thought that a festive wedding would be a guy’s pain in his heart. I’ve been looking forward to one day my little baby and I walk into the married palace hall. You give me a soft look and I give you a gentle look with the smile on our faces, face to face. I kneel down to say, will you marry me, honey? You are a little nervous, face flushes and smiles, even your eyes are fogged with tears, I know how much you are so excited. That may be nothing for other people, but a big big big day, for us.

Look, this is the wedding I want and I picture. How nice it is. While you see, you listen to what that guy talked, he said he was going to die. Marriage was a Grave, not a Paradise, he said to himself. His girl was introduced to him by his parents, lives in a village near his hometown around the suburbs. I’ve met her several times. If I may say so, her looks is common, but that’s not what I want to say, that is, her dressing is always too brightly colored to match her looks. I know she likes to chase after fashion, she wants to be in among the people, but her taste is exactly a little poor, her manners looks lacking for self-cultivation and culture. Besides her personality is a little strange, tends to lose her temper. However, how that relates to my life. Perhaps she’s been thinking her as a princess. He said, these days, she’s sent several text-messages to declare that she needs more fancy clothes, nice ornaments, home fittings, etc. And all stuff should be high-class. He squeezed the face and took a deep breath, “buddy, I’m about to go bankrupt, I’m heavily in debt. I just disputed with my dad about this and escaped out of that dad-blamed place.”

“Money, the dad-burned thing made me so crazy, if I had money, the world is mine.” He said.

“Hold on a minute, man! That is maybe plain but real, money is not everything you know. Man, sometimes, gets into troubles, it’s natural, no matter what difficulty now you meet with or you will meet with, keep going.” He told me, “why do you study, why do you work, why do you want to have your own business, what do you do it for? For what, let me tell you something, for money, money is life.” I shouted, “no, it’s not like that you speak, money is not life but a part of life. I study, work, open business of my own, I do it for a better life, not for money. If you take money for everything and your world in your heart would be gloomy and cold, white and black; money is just a means to get better life.”

At that moment, he was becoming a little excited and I didn’t want to badger with him any more. Stopped the talk, no point. As to me, something is more important than money, that is called undertaking; something is more important than undertaking, that is called life; something is important than life, that is called dreams.