外国语学院2002级涉外(2)班 吴婧

Poverty is a word that most people are afraid of. As a saying goes, “No money, no say.” Right, in the modern society, it’s hard to do anything withot money.

Yes, this is the first stage of poverty. On one side, if you contact with poverty, you will always stay with starvation. All your life aims are to search for food to feed yourself. You’ll not have enough time to seek other things, such as luxury item, entertainment, beautiful dressing and love, etc. What you do everyday is to find your life necessities. How dull your life is!

On the other side, long-lasting poor condition will gradually swallow your longing for everything. Maybe it’s not a bad thing. Your life is becoming simple. All you need to do is to feed yourself, and there’s nothing else. The less money you have, the less you worry. You would no longer worry about how to use a large sum of money, how to make more money, and how to earn the power. All these are far from you. From now on, you’re free.

Besides this, there’s further stage of poverty, that is, poverty in mind, and even poverty in health.

As I said just now, “No money, no say.” But money is not everything. If you have no money, you’re not pitiable. If you are in lack of mental wealth, such as morality, knowledge, you’re really pitiable. For instance, a scholar with extensive knowledge may have no money, but he is still respected by the people. On the contrary , if a person has a full pocket, but an empty mind; he always spits everywhere, speaks rudely, and knows nothing. Could you respect him?
Another is health. It’s known to all that health ia an essential part ofr everyone. So-called “poverty in health” means sub-health. We can do nothing well without good health. And if you’re healthy, you will do everything more effectively. Also, you can always keep energetic to face everything. But if you’re unhealthy or sub-healthy, even though you’re ambitious, you’ll not be successful. Because you have no energy to do everything.

So in my eyes, poverty in material wealth is not fearful, what you should avoid is poverty in mind and in health.

（王保昌老师　批阅）