Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Money vs Resources


A must read article for all those people out there with a mindset that whatever they do about their money is their business.

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Germany is a highly industrialized country. In such a country, many will think its people lead a luxurious life.

When we arrived at Hamburg , my colleagues walked into the restaurant, we noticed that a lot of tables were empty. There was a table where a young couple was having their meal. There were only two dishes and two cans of beer on the table. I wondered if such simple meal could be romantic, and whether the girl will leave this stingy guy.

There were a few old ladies on another table. When a dish is served, the waiter would distribute the food for them, and they would finish every bit of the food on their plates.
As we were hungry, our local colleague ordered more food for us.When we left, there was still about one third of un-consumed food on the table.

When we were leaving the restaurant, the old ladies spoke to us in English, we understood that they were unhappy about us wasting so much food.

"We paid for our food, it is none of your business how much food we left behind," my colleague told the old ladies. The old ladies were furious. One of them immediately took her hand phone out and made a call to someone. After a while, a man in uniform from Social Security organisation arrived. Upon knowing what the dispute was, he issued us a 50 Euro fine. We all kept quiet.


The officer told us in a stern voice, "ORDER WHAT YOU CAN CONSUME, MONEY IS YOURS BUT RESOURCES BELONG TO THE SOCIETY. THERE ARE MANY OTHERS IN THE WORLD WHO ARE FACING SHORTAGE OF RESOURCES. YOU HAVE NO REASON TO WASTE RESOURCES."

The mindset of people of this rich country put all of us to shame.


We come from a country where their is a huge gap between rich and poor, the rich fail to understand the difference between the luxury and need of resources. Even a middle class man while giving a treat to his friends or celebrating marriages, festivals etc. will order excess foods or drinks in order to save face. But they fail to realise the amount of these extra wastes importances to an hungry kid out there in streets.

Well, some may argue that it's their money and it's their choice but as the officer rightly said  'MONEY IS YOURS BUT RESOURCES BELONG TO THE SOCIETY'.

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