Week 7 Story: The Dream of One's Life

source: Cartoon

The Dream of One's Life

Mr. D

Mr. D, a zemindar and also a richest person in the town, one day takes a walk around the riverside, which will soon be his property, admires of his wealthiness. He suddenly sees a farmer, who lies down in the grass field as his feather bed, crosses his legs and whistles with full of joys.

A zemindar fetches a sign, full of sorrow. He wishes he can have more time to enjoy like the farmer, Mr.R.

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Mr. R

He is a farmer, who has exposed to the sun and rain for the whole time, worrying about the crops. The harvest soon comes the reaping, but if it keeps sunny like the last several weeks, he will not have enough money from the harvest to pay for the landlord. 

It is a beautiful day. The weather is so mild out. The forecast predicts that it will rain for the next two or three days. Despite of its good new, he still looks sorrow. He lies down and thinks: "I wish i can own a land, so i don't have to worry about paying the rental". 

He looks far down to a small land along this riverside, whose owes by Mr. E.

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Mr. E

Receive an inheritance from his parent, Mr. E now is the owner of this small land. However, the land is useless for him, since he is a miner but his land doesn't contain any mineral. The land is left alone without pruning, digging and nourishing. Therefore, there weeds growing chin high in that place.

Mr. E, who just returned from works, drinks a sip of water with all the heavy breathing, sits down and thinks about his future. He gets tired of the manual labour. He really want to work in an office, dealing with the paper works like Mrs. A.

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Mrs. A

Mrs. A is a legal assistance in a small bank of the town. She has been working here for five years. Although she gets bored of being around the walls, putting pen to paper, and fingers to keyboard, she works really hard for promotion from her job. 

Mrs. A stares off into space and certainlly looks to the office space of her boss, Mr. M. The room is empty. Mrs. A really wants to have a life living like her boss, who travels a lot on business and participates in many business parties.

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Mr.M 

Mr. M is a manager of the bank. He's gonna be the branch manager when the new bank branch open in a few weeks. This time is touch for him. He has to go out a lot for business. He was sent on a risk management teaching courses in Belgium and just got back last day. Today he has to receive special guests from the parent company.

Mr. M goes back to the office after finishing the first meeting. He sits down the swivel chair, spins around and stops when confront the window thinking. He has another meeting at 1:00 pm and he should works overtime tonight so he can follow the schedule. But he misses his family.

 e hadn't spent more than an hour a day with them for a while. His son misses him so much, too. He wishes he have more time. Then he thinks about Mr. S.

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Although Mr. S is in his late fifty, he is an idle person. He always complains about every jobs that he took and keeps changing from a miner to a farmer to a worker. Recently, he quit the job at a bank because he got bored. Now he stays at home, playing with his children. 

He has a lot of time so he wakes up late, plays until night and goes to bed late. His biological clock just doesn't want to work properly. 10:00 am, and he yawn drowsily with tiredness. 

Although he is fun playing with the kids, but her wife seems to not happy. She worries about the uncertain future, how can she raises up the kids without his financial assistant. 

He is thinking:"I wish i can win a lottery, become the richest people in the town like Mr. D, so he don't have to work or to worry about money anymore".

-------(And the circle just go around and around, never stop)-------

Author's Notes: This version is based on the idea of The Man in the Moon in Laos-Folklore Unit by Katherine Neville Fleeson (1899). In The Man in the Moon, the Blacksmith, who always complain of his life, wishes to change the others multiple times. God hears his wishes, turns him into the stone, stone-cutter, and the sun. God gets weary of his changing, then changes him one again into the Moon forever.

Take this idea, i converts a bit to account the dreams of every person. Since "the more you have, the more you want", a rich person want to have time to relax, poor people wishes to have more money. Busy people want to take a day off, while those unemployed really want to have a job.

Therefore, people all around the world have different sorrows, but all relates to others about their "dreams". Although i am not rich, but i have time to enjoy my favorite book, in which others may be a "dream".