3
months back, we took 3 hours drive to lunch in Tanjong Tualang, enjoying and
collecting the cholesterol count from fresh water prawns, it was worth to
exchange such delicious and sumptuous meal with 30 days work out.
While
walking back to the car, my 11 yrs old niece Little Fuji Apple suddenly pointed
on the road and shouted “Money!”, Money is a nice term to me, I think, I dream
and I love Money. With my 1st
instinct and lightning speed, I rushed forward like a tiger hunting for its
prey, grab hold of the whole stack of RM50 notes, just 8 inches away was
another stack, where my Little L inherited my DNA on speed, and I just behind him by half
second.
Little
L was shouting over the moon, I ruled out such kind of disgraceful act in
public, cause I need to maintain my noble and elegant self.
50
meters away from the scene, we finally put ourselves together after having a
whale of time, I took out the money and count, it was exactly RM500, where
Little L got RM208, a total of RM708.
This was a huge sum, a lot of suggestions pour in, wait for the owner to
come back, ask around, keep it or spend it.
Then
someone popped out the ‘what if’ questions, what if the owner was in need to
feed the family of 8 including 28 ducks, 18 ants, and an aged ailing 108 years
old mother, or worst in urgent need to pay for medical deposit. Our happiness cut short to just last for less
than 8 minutes. We frowned and lost,
guilt level increase to the maximum, stared at the money in hand and look back
at the scene, how I hope that the scene could replay back and I will choose to
ignore the money.
We
waited a little while and decided to leave the place as there was no claimer,
those money was put in our family pool fund.
The
guilt feeling had since been haunted me for weeks, I had troubled in sleep for
the first few days, it also stirred my feeling whenever our family use the pool
fund.
Lately,
my Leng Lui mom (means pretty mom) called to tell me that she lost RM50 in the
sundries shop, she was very upset, and I rendered my ears for her to nag, she
nagged every day, long enough for a totaling of 7 x 7 = 49 days.
With
this, my peaceful mind created a whirlpool…. big and bigger, I look up in the
sky, I am deeply sorry and I don’t mean to cause that pain for others…..
