When a stranger call..                                   

 

The phone usually stays idle in our household, but on one occassion when I was out gardeninging and enjoying the retirement that I had work so hard to get, I got a call."Hello, Mr. Chee, this is Memar. do you remember me."  After I studdered a bit, and him and haw, I said that of the many students that I had, I just can't recall who you are. In fact it was only 4000 students that I have taught and while I was teaching I would remember all their names, brothers and sister, and what their parents did. But on this occasion, dementia had set in . "Memar, you remembered, I was the one who gave you the cigarette paper. " Yes, cigarette paper, I remembered that one, it was a cigarette paper that pencil shaving in it, wrapped to look like illegal drug.  " I have finished law school for a few years now and I got a buyer for your property."

 

Time passes, and after 25 years as I think back to the situation, I remembered that he had lost my property to the bank and I lost all my money in turn in the situation. I really do not regret the lost, but what is really troubling for me is the fact that I did not instill enough value in the former student. After the business venture, I have not heard from him. Still feeling responsible for him, I hope that one day he will learn his lesson.

 

Moral:  Should the phone ring, remember that a hello should only be a hello, and nothing more.