Madness from the East
Like grasshoppers drawn to light, they are drawn to money ventures. Like ants in line, stopping to greet each other and ferrying chunks of food to the anthill, their sense of community and hard work is evident. They are spread out all over the globe, from the dingiest dark corners to hoity-toity palaces.
They multiply like mushrooms; they creep into areas and take over. They are successful business owners, when they spot fertile fields, they ship family, distant cousins, neighbors and local touts by the hundreds. Woe is yours if they employ you - getting fair pay is like squeezing juice out of a dry mango seed. They almost always carry packed lunch to work and will not leave until they must. They own shops’ in villages’ on the outskirts of civilization, yet the villagers will know where they are located because of the reasonable prices.
While the rest of us buy expensive cars, they drop children off on simple scooters. When there is a fuel crisis, guess who is still on the road?
2 grown men walk into a restaurant and order a 300ml coke which they gladly share. Don’t know if it quenches their thirst but something tells me they were on a mission, scouting out the possibility of taking over that business or maybe it’s just the sense of brotherhood.
3 families with 2 children each will live in a 2 bed roomed run down shack and there is room for grandma and grandpa.
Madness!
They make for half the population in prestigious schools around the world.
The best known doctors carry their long tongue tying names.
They are advisers' in the White house.
Even though their heads balance like eggs on spoons as they speak, we’ve got to give it to them – we need some of that madness.
They multiply like mushrooms; they creep into areas and take over. They are successful business owners, when they spot fertile fields, they ship family, distant cousins, neighbors and local touts by the hundreds. Woe is yours if they employ you - getting fair pay is like squeezing juice out of a dry mango seed. They almost always carry packed lunch to work and will not leave until they must. They own shops’ in villages’ on the outskirts of civilization, yet the villagers will know where they are located because of the reasonable prices.
While the rest of us buy expensive cars, they drop children off on simple scooters. When there is a fuel crisis, guess who is still on the road?
2 grown men walk into a restaurant and order a 300ml coke which they gladly share. Don’t know if it quenches their thirst but something tells me they were on a mission, scouting out the possibility of taking over that business or maybe it’s just the sense of brotherhood.
3 families with 2 children each will live in a 2 bed roomed run down shack and there is room for grandma and grandpa.
Madness!
They make for half the population in prestigious schools around the world.
The best known doctors carry their long tongue tying names.
They are advisers' in the White house.
Even though their heads balance like eggs on spoons as they speak, we’ve got to give it to them – we need some of that madness.
Amen to that!
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