If you propose a question to everybody in the world that “do you want to be rich or poor?” Most of them will probably say “I want to be rich rather than poor.” That’s normal because it is the ambitious nature of the human being. Now, let transfer your question to “do you want to be too rich or too poor?” I believe people will take a little while to think and then say that “I don’t want to be too rich or too poor but I want to be in the middle of the two and rather close to the rich one.” That’s also normal because every body want to be richer rather than poorer. But now, if you turn these two questions to the poorest and the richest people in the world, the poorest may say “I don’t want anything more than rice, bread, clothes, and accommodation” and the richest may say “I need to have more right to free myself from all of these dump properties.” What do you think of that? To you, are all of these answers possibly acceptable? I am not a researcher and I have never spent time to take the sample and evaluate the population of this hypothesis. I am not a statistician. I am not so good in sampling analysis. But I believe in what I have thought and analyzed from the fact of my society nowadays.
In my point of view, I think the best answer to these two questions is “I want to be rich within the poor condition.” It is the best answer that people should better say. Now, let me say something about the rich people. For example, if you are a rich person, you can see every thing around you is good, modern and up-to-date. It makes you feel more confident and flexible. But what happen when you meet a beggar is folding his hands and begs for your money? There are two options: one, you give him your money, two, you offer nothing to him and walk away. Normally, people do that without reflection. I tell you something, if you are in such condition (I mean rich condition), you will never ever see the difficulties of the poor. Sometimes, they use the earth as their home, the sky as their net, and the grass as their blanket. A rich person has ever heard of that? That’s why I say the only rich is meaningless. Moreover, if you get into the high class restaurant, you may have to follow some steps such as taking a little piece of cloth and put on your lap, respect the outside-in process of using spoons and folks, and so on. Do you want to live with such order in your daily life or not, if I honestly and personally ask you? This is what the poor condition is better than the rich one.
To me, judging a person who is rich or poor is useless. You will never ever find a good friend or partner as you wish. You can see an outsider, s/he is really nice and friendly, but sometimes, it happens only when s/he speaks with the rich people. Actually, s/he does completely look down on poor people. How can we know about that? So, you should take a look at his/her involvement and conditions. For instant, you can simply find out a person who has joint a lot with society, involved a lot with the poor people and finally had the kind-hearted feeling. Psychologically speaking, someone who does always put their feet into somebody’s shoes. Thus, from day to day, please try out to change your mind from wanting to be rich to needing to be rich in the poor condition.
Finally, I just want to mention again that this small text doesn’t create in purpose of blaming the rich people. However, it is created in order to encourage them to put more time in thinking about the poor condition. Of course, as humanity, we were born with nothing. So, how can we say of rich and poor? There is a man, said that his friend was born with one LEXUS car and two flats in the downtown near Phnom Penh city. And, I claimed that “Wow, how can a baby bring this stuff with him?” That’s impossible and in my life, I have never ever appreciated that. You know, we were born with the same condition, but what generate us to be poor or rich is not because of ourselves, but it is truly because of our family living condition. Therefore, what we have to do, is to build a prosper generation from our starting point with a phrase “We don’t want see the disjunction of the World as we are all the same now.”
06-Sept-2007
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