1. In contrast, Mary, a Los Angeles college student considers a family her first priority, saying: “I want to be comfortable, but I don’t need to own a Benz. My profession is important. But family life is even more important.” A 23-year-old worker in California agrees: “I ’d put my family first.
When I get married, I won’t get divorced. Money won’t buy happiness.”
2. Wherever you are, and whoever you may be, there is one thing in which you and I are just alike at this moment, and in all the moments of our existence. We are not at rest; we are on the journey. Our life is a movement, a tendency, a ceaseless progress towards an unseen goal.
Mother came from our home village. She stayed with us for ten days. When she was about to leave, she wanted to buy us something as a present.
“You’ve got everything.” She said, “but you seem to have got nothing. The TV set is yours, but the people who walk back and forth in it are all strangers, even murderers, corrupt officials and thieves come in and out of it from time to time. The radio cassette player is yours, but it’s all others who sing in it. The books on the shelf are yours, but they are all written by others. The fridge is yours, but all the year round it’s filled with frost that comes from God knows where. Though they make your life easy and comfortable, none of them belongs to you.”