The best in life

With no doubts, the best in life are free or almost free: fresh air and clean water (we do not appreciate them until we visit China and Hong Kong to a lesser extent), healthy food, a walk around the lake or in the park... We living in Mass. do not have to worry about contaminated food, Japan's nuclear/earthquake problems, Missouri flood, tornado attacks... Keep our fingers crossed and thank God.

We cannot buy our grand children’s beautiful laughter that makes our life so meaningful and enjoying.

Why should I worry about the current events like national debts, stock market...? It is my passion to learn about them and debate them among friends, otherwise life is very boring. However, try to accept others' opinions that may not be same as ours. Debates bring the best of us and the worst of us. It is better to make friends than enemies.

My secret weapon in life is: I do not need expensive toys to make me happy, so money is not a big deal to me at least at this stage of our life. However, making money is fun, losing money is nightmare, and loving money is the root of all evils… We should not let money to control our life. We should spend our time in improving our health that is more important than wealth. We always misplace our priorities in life.

I was lucky to be born a hundred miles from China hence skipping the misery in 50s and 60s. Our grand parents went thru a century of humiliation and our parents went thru WW2.

Did any of you act last week according to the prediction of the end of human race? We should eat all the unhealthy and tasty food in a fancy restaurant and charge it to our credit card. Seems to be a sweet dream and now we’ve to wake up and face cruel reality and consequences – the extra pounds we gained and the Master card statement we’ve to pay. Too bad that life is not totally free!