Strangers are the best people to tell if we are having hard times, they don't judge us because they know nothing about us in general.
Mostly people who know us personally will always have something to say wether we do good or bad, but strangers they don't give a damn about us because we are non of their business.
Wisdom from Jack Ma about Strangers
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I remember way back when mom had started online selling, during those time my dad doesn't have a job yet. My mom is a hardworking and is not used to stay at home earning nothing. She's not used to relying on her parents and more to her in-law to provide our basic needs.
She started online selling just 3 years ago, online selling that time is not that rampant compared to nowadays. She doesn't have any capital, she find some ways to produce capital via loans. Then she started buying and selling RTW, she also resell second hand laptops.
She didn't even received support from her friends nor family members except her mom who give her a little money to contribute on her capital.
The side of my dad even belittle her that she cannot pull it off, but they were wrong. Because she's stranger in dad's place and she doesn't have any friends, she just posted her merchandise online. In Facebook online selling group.
She will be out for a while doing meet ups if she have enough buyers, I tag along with her sometimes.
Then her little income help us to provide our basic needs.
Indeed Jack Ma quote about stranger is real. All mom's customer on her online selling journey was all STRANGER. Nobody from her acquaintance and family members or my dad's side to support or even buy her products. Indeed they even looked down on her that she can't pull it off, that she's just wasting her time and capital.
After some time, seeing her perseverance in doing little business the aunt of my dad then offer her to have bigger capital. This Aunt was the wife of the Captain that despise my dad, causing him troubles with his career, if you remember the story I told about Money Is Power.
My mom accepted the offer but only borrowed a little amounts, she doesn't want to be in debt big time especially that it was dad's side. My mom has endured a lot when she got pregnant by me way back, they don't want mom for my dad because she came from poor family even though my dad's family is poor as well just because my dad has degree while mom was undergraduate.
Even though my mom didn't finish her degree she's hardworking and deligent in work, she can produce money without relying to anyone. It's a shame that if we were to calculate who sacrificed and do efforts a lot in providing our basic needs way back was from my mom's hardwork not by dad. My dad grow up being spoiled by grannies that he doesn't know how to make “diskarte” in life.
My mom had endured everything, after all her efforts and hardworks she gained total respect from dad's clan that they were wrong in judging her.
I would like to say, thanks to all the strangers who bought my mom's merchandise before, without those strangers we would starve to death because family and friends doesn't show support at all. They are only present during the happy times something where they can find benefits in doing support.
Endnotes:
That is why we should be nice to strangers, some strangers find hopes by some strangers as well. It's so ironic that strangers can give genuine support rather than the family sometimes, just like the ones who helped dad to onboard again. Those people are just acquaintance of my grandma long time ago and just meet again during their reunion but helped my dad without any conditions.
Just like my mom, all her buyers was strangers. But right now mom stopped online selling for some reason and strong competition as online selling is rampant nowadays and do other stuff to earn money online.
To all my read.cash friends, you are all strangers to me but you are all kind. Thank you for being a stranger with a heart!
Until next time, thank you for reading...
September 14, 2021
A wise man once told me, "A stranger is only a stranger until you get to know them. Then they aren't strangers anymore." It's a bit obvious, but something we often tend to not consider when we think about people with whom we are not completely familiar with.