"Fame" & "Fortune"

Disclaimer: Before I begin, if you are not the least interested about philosophy and wisdom of words... Read and Forget the next Second...Tis is to save your brain capacity and memory...

Firstly, I want to talk about Poverty. People who thinks poverty is bad naturally will be complaining about life sucks, blaming the rich. It is because you think poverty affects you that is why it bothers you. Poverty pulls you down from your dreams. Your attitude towards poverty will greatly affect how you see through life. You must be strong even if you live in poverty.

In a faraway village, a very poor scholar lives by his wooden hut. One day, he ran out of rice. He had no penny. So he decided to look for a small rank official who take cares of irrigation. He went to the official and asked him could he spare him few bags of rice. Offical said: "When I finish collecting the irrigation rent from the farmers, i will give you 300 gold tales." in case you didnt know, tats a huge sum of money. Then the scholar think of an incident. When he was walking in the bushes, a fish came to him and said: "sir can you spare me a litre of water to let me live." Scholar replied:" why don't you wait for me, i talk to the king and asked him to dispatched men to irrigate the water so that you can be drift to the sea." fish replied:" well, i think by the time the men come, you can find me in the market at the dried fish stall."

The Scholar replied the irrigation offical with this incident and walked off. What does it shows, the scholar sarcasm showed he cares nothing about fame and fortune. He knows that by the time he waited, he will be a dried corpse lying beneath the tombstone.


Now we talk about being rich and famous. In China,A guy works in the media industry because its his passion and dream to do it. However, he turns to property selling. He says he had to provide for his family because his getting married at that time. And that he wanted to have enough money which will give his children a better future. A great father indeed. He had a little adorable son soon after... And he had accumulated quite a fortune from the property boom. He made one decision which raise eyebrow... he decided to migrate. He sent his wife and son to a far far far away country first and say I will join you later when i earn more money to continue our lifestyle. His friends were astounded and asked him why he did that. He said in a serious tone: "With the wealth I've accumulated, do you think i will still let my son study in this country's school. I'm afraid my son will be kidnap."

From the story what does it tells you, being rich doesn't makes your life any better. You've got to worry about things that normal people wouldn't even bother like kidnapping.
The Ideal case of happiness is the middle class. They are not below poverty and not constraint by massive wealth. Their life is much carefree.

We must learn to see through ourselve, see through life and death, see through heaven and earth and bottomline the universe. Fame and Fortune is just pieces of papers. People study just to get a qualifications which comes in Paper.
People Work Just to get credentials and merits which is also in paper. People work for money which is also made of paper. People die, they make gravestone and they "sio kim zhua" which is made of paper as well. So we are juz working for few pieces of paper.Make Sense? Think about it yourself.