August 7, 2022 Sunday

It's been raining since the last few days here and that makes me a bit lazy too. My work schedule is on nightshift that also makes me more too slow. Well, this work schedule just keeps me a bit unproductive as I want to rest and have more sleep after work.

Anyways, you might be wondering why I came up about this question. Lately, I have some few friends whose life seem to flourish. I am happy because it was due to their husbands hardwork. They receive some criticisms from others but I never mind and still we are friends no matter how people gossip them too. Then one day, a common friend ask me about our friend. She asked if her attitude is already like before and now that they have plenty of money already. So I hurriedly answered her, "Yes". She becomes quiet and said , she thought our friend speaks like that way now that she has become richer.

However, I will give an overview of these friends who becomes rich and you will tell me if money can really change a person.

A Seafarer Husband

She is humble and still down to earth friend. They manage to slowly build their own house and buy some assets though never talked about it. She stays low profile and just secretly share to us a few souvenirs if her husband comes home from abroad. She invites us secretly too on occassions and never let us felt out of place. Sometimes she will ask to give me some help on some needs but I refuse and say I am okay. Because I do not want to make others gossip that I am an abusive friend like this like that. Just last week, it was her birthday, I almost forgot to greet her but luckily I greeted her after I woke up and prepared for work. Then she message me that she left some foods for us and some colleagues. I said, ok I will relay it to them. Though she said, if there are leftovers, I will bring it home for the kids. Since I do some headcount, the food packs are just enough for all of us. I thought everyone claim their part and never check it before going home. Yet my friend message me, why I never take the leftovers, oh my I was sorry then for assuming that there will be no leftovers. She is really good in and out. For me, she is still the same friend that I have known.

Overseas Worker Husband

She is kind and so simple. But as years gone by her character becomes strong. She has her side of kindness and sometimes being nasty. Her husband is a former colleague who leaves to work abroad for a greener pasteur. After many years abroad, his husband got a better job with a better salary making them a bit rich. Though she is kind to us and sometimes frankly speak to others without thinking. I mean, words do hurt and she is so tactless when speaking in public thus making others to gossip about her. I already told her to be watchful with her words. She seem to shift a bit but there are times we cannot tell and just sigh on the sides. That is why, I am keeping a bit of a distant already. I mean, I only go their house if badly needed for she needs my help and my assistance about something. I just dont feel like being so close to her anymore because she seem to change.

Hardworking Husband

This is friend of mine who really starts from scratch. She is a colleague and her husband is a right hand of a businessman (who is a friend too). Her husband works also for a small town lottery and sometimes gamble and won big amount. Her husband too gambles on cockfighting together with his boss and won big. Her husbands secretly keep the money he had won and slowly rebuild their house from a small hut now to a two-storey concret house. Her husband is very kind to us that sometimes he will give us some food to bring home whenever he sees me and hubby after work. But lately, my colleague seem to gossip like this and like that. I think they are just envious on my friends life progress. Though I felt something a bit odd now. I can feel that she seem to distant from me. Then, I will tell myself that I am just overthinking.

How about you readers? What can you say about the three of them? Do they really change as what I have felt towards them somehow? Do they really change because of money or what?

Closing Thoughts

People change from time to time, I strongly agree to that because it depends on how they live in life. But to some who said that money can change people, I cannot truly agree to that not unless I can fully justify it. Perhaps the friends I have may become richer and have changes in life, still I cannot justify everything that leads to money is the main reason they somehow change. What about you readers? Let me know your comment about this matter.

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