Friday, December 30, 2016

Connecting the Dots to the Past

"Fast money," a sale man told me. The sale man has a younger brother and he is very smart. "He doesn't want to work. He doesn't want money from the proper way," He continued.

Proper way? I think that's quite a subjective perceptive. Something incontestable is that some people in old fashion still perceive money which got from random sources to be not proper. I didn't make a comment. The picture of my friend success had came into my mind. He is doing an "improper business" for years before he established himself a good company. I thought the claim by the sale man is subjective.

"I've seen quite a number of my friend having good trait but turn worst when they mismanage their lives," He said. "Though some of them from very poor family manage to strive into realm of success." While he trying to convey the message, I found this man interesting. He's actually looking back to his past. They are classmate started from the relative same starting point and ended with different point of life after years. He began to compare what he actually missed to become success like his classmate and what he gratitude that he doesn't get involve in certain way to become a bad person. I start to observe and I found this fact is fascinating. We can't actually see thing when we are young. The icon and success stories on paper is quite a fairy tales to us but when someone in our circle start to emerge as a successful person, it kicks into our mind. What've we done differently? One thing I see from my past is I thought of education is an absolute determiner and success is impartial to those loner, but my friend had proven me wrong. I start to build my communication, I speak more, flatter when I need to and I stress to every one around me that getting no good mark doesn't mean you are bad producer. 

One thing I do agree is ambitious people do often looking to do something out of sense. Looking for fast money is one of the trait, but it also mess up their life. I pretty sure i'd somehow mess up too my life by debts and overwhelm by job that I'm not supposedly able to handle at my age. I look at the guy and smiled, feeling like I'm somehow in the position of his brother. Though I might be little hard worker than him. 

It also taught me another important lesson, if the problem is chronic and important, working on the surface does't help to eradicate it. I'd spent most of my time trying to pull off the fire failing to recognise the source is still there. I think if the problem is there, why avoiding and worrying? Work on it.