Two opposite cases here, from the Front Page Sections, translated…
Recently, there were, two news stories that are totally extremes, one was a young engineer, who’d donated a total of $180,000N.T. in the forms of three hundred red envelopes to the low income families so they will have a happy new year too; another was a school instructor, who’d agreed to pay $100 for the food items she’d ordered, but at the delivery time, she’d only paid $80N.T.s.
The prices for produce had fallen, and it’d, hurt the farmers, surely, you can slash the prices by bartering, but, if you want to barter, then, go to your regular traditional marketplace to do it, and, if you though that it was expensive, paying $100N.T.s for the produces, then, don’t put in an order for the vegetables. By the same token, the twenty-eight year-old engineer who’d saved up the money from his year-end bonus and the money from his daily expenditures and donated to the lower income families, to do his good deeds, compared to the donations of the larger enterprises, it’s nothing, but, it’s, a best example of doing good, adding a little more warmth into this world.
As the year came to an end, everybody should model after this warm-heated male engineer, although I can’t even manage to donate ALL of my year-end bonuses to charities, but, if we were to make these monthly smaller donations, so long as we continue this, we will be able to instill that new sense of hope into this society here, and, giving Taiwan a better and a brighter future too.
So, here, are the extremes, and, this still showed how there are, so many kinds of people in the world, those who are, out, to take advantage, and those who are, giving back to the communities, doing the most that they can do, the question is, which one would you rather be like? The woman who’d cheated the online mass market for vegetables, or, this engineer, who managed, to bring a little extra warmth to the less fortunate?
Life, the Obstacle Course 