The question is: “Do you want to sit on a bicycle laughing or sit in a Mercedes Benz crying?”
I was thinking for a long time before I answered: “Maybe I choose sit on a bicycle laughing.” My student laughed and then she said: “I choose cry in the Mercedes Benz.”
One day, I went home and had a chat with my father. I talked about this question and asked my father how does he see this question.
My father laughed and said: “You are older then the student. You have had experience more than your student. So you, from your way see this question.’
“Why do you want sit on the bicycle laughing? Just you want a safe life. You are older, you have experienced life, but your student never sit in the Benz so she want to try. When she has had this experience, when she has sat in a Benz, maybe she’ll change her thinking. What is life after all? Life is experience, you have more experience and then you can think through many things. We often say: Kan dan ren sheng* . This is why different age have different choose.”
“What do you see as rich?” I asked
Father said: “This depend on you; rich inside or rich outside. Rich inside, you can see far away and you do anything, you can feel easy because you easy to understand the life. Rich outside but poor inside, you can’t think through anything, you often make poor choices, so how do you feel easy?”
I agreed. I remember a friend, who grew up at the same time as me in a very poor family, but who is now very, very rich, told me: “When you poor, you just want a simple thing, when you have a little, you easy feeling happy. When you rich, you always want more things, it takes only a little thing for you feeling unhappy.”
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