Why are you always poorer than others?

Author: Rongrong
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: Poor, poor, poor—definitely related to money, but no longer absolutely corresponding to being poor. Poverty no longer just means failure and admitting failure; it's not the embarrassing shortcoming people used to avoid mentioning. Some people use poverty as a to open conversations, yet they fear others will take them seriously, so they twist and turn, eventually revealing their boring self-praise and show-off on stage.
One time, a friend asked me, "What do you think you are?" I shamefully replied, "A poor person." She asked, "Then what's your biggest wish?" "To be rich!" "What do you think being rich means?" I thought for a moment but didn't say it.