Some values cannot be exchanged
By TATHY ARNAUD
@evelyne1 (9)
June 13, 2022 5:00am CST
It's 8pm on a Saturday, I'm walking along the edge of the tarmac, in front of me is a man, tall, sometimes he walks, sometimes he stops, he makes strange gestures, he punches the air, he yells, it looks like he's fighting against invisible beings, I realise that he's suffering from madness. In Congo, in general, people suffer from madness because they have had to practice magic, they do it to get money, material goods, success. Right in front of this madman, I noticed a young man, about 35 years old, he is a street vendor, he sells boiled eggs and colas, he is also looking for money and material goods, but the way he has chosen is to work, even if it is a job that some might downplay, in reality there is no stupid job. At least he does not suffer from madness, at least he has not lost his conscience, at least he is free.
Through this observation I realised that there are values that cannot be traded for money, no matter how hard life gets.
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@aninditasen (15809)
• Raurkela, India
13 Jun 22
Values that are instilled since childhood by our parents go a long way into making us decent human beings. Those who lack values and want easy money and want to become rich quickly have the possibility of getting mad. No black magic is going to help.
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@MALUSE (69390)
• Germany
13 Jun 22
Sane people assume that mad people suffer. This is not always the case. A friend of mine who I knew from my university days became schizophrenic. She was intelligent and had got a good knowledge of a wide range of things. Yet, she left the world of logic completely and only talked nonsense. She seemed to be happy in her own world.
@evelyne1 (9)
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13 Jun 22
She is happy in her own world but because she suffers from this disease, she doesn't have the same abilities as a normal person, there are things she can't do anymore. Can we say she is really happy?
