Translated…
Awhile ago, I’d gone back to my mother’s to help my mother and my older sister sell vegetables, and that, was when I learned, in the recent years as the supermarkets got set up, the stand had suffered losses. I’d asked my older sister, why she didn’t just, stop selling the items, she’d told me, that she’s in her midlife years, and a job would be hard to find, plus, she’d owned and operated her stand for a very long time, had a set clientele, how could she just put it up.
And so, I’d started paying attention to the stands in the marketplaces that don’t get enough customers, there was a fruit stand that got my attention especially. There wasn’t much business happening there, but the stand owner who is about sixty years old would always get dressed up every day, I’d once bought coconut there, although the price was a bit more expensive, but the owner was very kind.
From the fruit stand owner’s attitude, I’d finally understood my older sister’s mindset. Although the vegetable stand doesn’t bring in much money, but, this stand had become the sole focus for my mother and my older sister since a very long time ago; serving the customers, interactions with the clients, is more important than making the money, it’s also, a vital part of their lives, that, was the main reason why my older sister wouldn’t put up her stand.
If because of this stand that’s costing them money, giving them the zest and the bliss of their lives, so long as the household economics allowed, why not? The saying of “nobody wants to be in a business that doesn’t make the money”, is totally wrong here.
And so, the purpose of this vegetable stand is still NOT making an income, but for the socialization as one gets into the elderly years, which is why the younger sibling supports the idea that her mother and her older sister’s plans of keeping the stand going.
