Passion

Let us talk about passion tonight. No, not that kind of passion as in love. (smile) But passion for work. This afternoon, as cat was strolling, out in the sun, during lunch time.. cat saw an old couple that has been selling fruits nearby to cat's flat 6 years ago, pushing their fruit cart just across the road. Ohh.. just fancy that..they are still selling fruits until today.

Cat ran across the street (cat being cat), and said hi to them. How happy the heart is when they still remember cat. After some exchange of cat's news, cat asked them about their children. Do you know that the eldest is now a businessman and the 2nd (which is the youngest) is a teacher.

Oo..then cat started to remember the case of the old man who was abandoned by his children and lived in the shed behind a school. That old man had had to work as a gardener in the school as his children had abandoned him due to a quarrel among themselves. Oh.. don't tell cat that this couple had been abandoned too.

As if reading cat's mind, the old man started to laugh.' No, cat. My wife and I have been selling fruits since we were young. We are not rich but we have enough for everyone and we even managed to send the kids to universities with the money we make selling fruits. So now, even though the kids do send us more money than we ever needed, we feel that we as long as we are still strong, we want to keep on selling fruits especially during week days. The schoolkids will miss us if we are not there and we would take this time too to meet old friends like Ah Seng who sells mee at the other corner.'

'Don't worry about us, cat.' the wife smiled. 'Our children sent us money every month. We can stay at home and watch TV if we wanted too. We don't know until when we will still stay together.. and..we do need the exercise' chuckled the old man while looking at the wife.

Cat was surprised. This is the first time that cat has seen people love doing what they are doing. They were actually proud that they are still working and not just waiting for their children' money. Imagine that..

While there are some of us who doesn't want to work but just want to enjoy the good life. There are those who just complaints about their job.

Just imagine that..

Signing off,
Cat