I
heard one of my childhood friends was hit by a vehicle last night. She is
lying flat lifelessly in the hospital bed in her town, while the doctors are trying to figure out the severity of her injured brain, another friend of mine reported
me.
I grew up side-by-side with both of these friends in the same town. The first friend was a vivacious person with an inquisitive
mind and strong body when we’re growing up. She performed better than I did in
school and in sports. She had to be on ‘top’ always and aggressively yearned
for wealth. She didn’t need much sleep or any other form of physical rest as
her mind overworked tirelessly.
With
her hard work and determinations, she had amassed everything she wanted! She
had a long career with the government, few rental properties nearby to cover
her living costs, and her investments in the financial markets were growing
exponentially. Most of these investments she will never have to touch since her
residual income (passive income) were enough for her and her family to live even
if they survived for hundred more years!
This
friend of mine had
been buying property left and right. She never let go of any ‘good’ piece of
land or home that had a potential to increase overnight-value. Once, she even
bought the piece of land behind her mother for which her mother had already made advance
payments for to secure the deal.Her love for money had over shadowed her conscience. She had forgotten that we were born empty handed and will die empty handed.
When she had a liquidity problems (she ran out of cash in her bank), this
friend of mine borrowed money from her friends and relatives and financed the
properties she eyed to --not because she needed but simply out of greed!
She often borrowed from the relatives or friends who had the least for
themselves, because my friend calculated that by exploiting the people with no ‘voice’
in the public her aggression would be kept secret from the public.
Now,
my friend is lying on the hospital bed disoriented, I heard. Most of her
body-parts are wrapped in bandage, they tell me. However, she can talk a little,
although not coherently. She can drink a little, although has not been able to
keep in her stomach for long. She started to go to washroom with the help of her family and friends
since yesterday, they assured me. Thanks to her iron-will, which seems to be
still functioning well!
Midst
of my friend’s ordeal, I heard that her husband is running around looking for a
person to borrowing money from. He needed the money for his wife’s treatments, he's been telling people. While his lifeless wife barely knows what is
happening around her, he on the other hand, seems to be ‘too aware’ of the depleting
savings in their bank accounts.
Putting
everything together, it seems that my friend
will live a few more years with minor disability, since all of her vital-parts seem
to have started working reasonably well. Is this a good news for the people exploited by my friend for all these years? I don't know.
Regardless of her attitude, she is a wife, mother and a few other things to her family members. I wonder how her quality of life would be from now on. Will she be
the needy person she was in all her life? Or, she will be the convert
one with totally healthy life style, I ponder.
I grew up hearing, “as you sow, so shall you reap”, but I was sceptical about it, as I had seen many people getting away with their wrong deeds. But with the news about this friend, I'm fairly comfortable to assume that you get back what you give to others.
