ေငြနဲ႔ အရင္းအျမစ္

"ကုန္သေလာက္ပဲမွာပါ၊ မွာသေလာက္ ခင္ဗ်ားတို႔ေပးတယ္ဆိုေပမဲ႔ ေငြကသာ ခင္ဗ်ားတို႔ေငြျဖစ္ၿပီး ခင္ဗ်ားတို႔ ျဖဳန္းတီးတဲ႔အရင္းအျမစ္ေတြက လူသားတစ္ရပ္လုံး နဲ႔ ဆိုင္ပါတယ္" (ဂ်ာမန္အရာရွိ)

အလုပ္ကိစၥနဲ႔ ဂ်ာမဏီႏိုင္ငံ၊ ဟမ္းဘတ္ၿမိဳ႕ကိုေရာက္စဥ္ကပါ။ က်ေနာ္နဲ႔ က်ေနာ္႔ မိတ္ေဆြ စားေသာက္ဆိုင္ထဲ ေရာက္ခ်ိန္မွာ ဟင္းတစ္ခြက္စီ၊ ဘီယာတစ္လုံးစီနဲ႔ ညစာစားေနၾကတဲ႔ လူငယ္အတြဲတစ္တြဲကို ေတြ႔ရတယ္။ က်ေနာ္႔စိတ္ထဲမွာေတာ႔ ဒီေလာက္ အစားအေသာက္ေလးနဲ႔ ဘယ္လိုလုပ္ ရိုမက္တစ္ဆန္ႏိုင္မလဲ ဆိုတာ ရွိေနပါတယ္။ အျခားစားပြဲတစ္လုံးမွာလည္း စားစရာအနည္းငယ္နဲ႔ အဘြားႀကီး အုပ္စုကို ေတြ႔ရပါတယ္။

က်ေနာ္႔မိတ္ေဆြက စားစရာေတြမွာတယ္၊ မၾကာဘူး၊ စားစရာေတြေရာက္လာ တယ္။ သြားစရာကရွိေနေတာ႔ အကုန္မစားေတာ႔ပဲ စားပြဲထိုးကို ေခၚ၊ ေငြရွင္းၿပီး ထြက္ခဲ႔ၾကတယ္။
က်ေနာ္တို႔ဆိုင္ကထြက္ေတာ႔ အဂၤလိပ္လို ေနာက္ကေန လွမ္းေခၚသံ ၾကားလိုက္ ရတယ္။ အဘြားႀကီးေတြက လွမ္းေခၚတာ။ စားစရာေတြ မွာၿပီး ကုန္ေအာင္မစား လို႔ တဲ႔။
က်ေနာ္႔မိတ္ေဆြက ေတာ္ေတာ္စိတ္တိုသြားတယ္။ ကိုယ္႔ပိုက္ဆံနဲ႔ကိုယ္မွာတာ မကုန္ေတာ႔ ဘာျဖစ္ေသးလဲ လို႔လည္း ျပန္ေျပာတယ္။
ဒီမွာပဲ သူတို႔အထဲက တစ္ေယာက္က တစ္ေနရာရာကို ဖုန္းလွမ္းဆက္တယ္။
မၾကာမီမွာပဲ လူမႈလုံၿခဳံေရးအရာရွိေရာက္လာၿပီး က်ေနာ္႔မိတ္ေဆြကို ဒဏ္ေငြ ငါးဆယ္ အေဆာင္ခိုင္းပါတယ္။
သူရွင္းျပတာက
"ေနာက္ဆို ကုန္သေလာက္ပဲမွာပါ၊ မွာသေလာက္ ခင္ဗ်ားတို႔ေပးတယ္ဆိုေပ မဲ႔ ေငြကသာ ခင္ဗ်ားတို႔ေငြျဖစ္ၿပီး ခင္ဗ်ားတို႔ ျဖဳန္းတီးတဲ႔အရင္းအျမစ္ေတြက လူသားတစ္ရပ္လုံးနဲ႔ ဆိုင္ပါတယ္။ ကမၻာေပၚမွာ ရိကၡာျပတ္လပ္ၿပီး စားရာမဲ႔ ေသာက္ရာမဲ႔လူေတြ အမ်ားႀကီးရွိေနတယ္ဆိုတာ သတိရပါ" တဲ႔။

ဒါဟာ ကမၻာမွာ အခ်မ္းသာဆုံံးစာရင္းဝင္ ဂ်ာမဏီရဲ႕ စာနာေထာက္ထားမႈပါပဲ။ က်ေနာ္႔မိတ္ေဆြဆိုုရင္ အျမင္မွန္ရသြားၿပီး အရာရွိကိုေရာ အဘြားႀကီးေတြကို ပါ ေတာင္းပန္စကား ေျပာမဆုံးေပါင္ ျဖစ္ေနရွာတယ္ေလ။
ဒီစာဖတ္သူတိုင္း ဒီအျမင္ေလးရသြားရင္ က်ေနာ္တို႔ ကမၻာ႔ရိကၡာေတြ အမ်ားႀကီး ေခၽြတာၿပီးသားျဖစ္သြားမွာပါ။

(အီးေမးကို အဆင္ေျပသလို ဘာသာျပန္ထားတာပါ)

MONEY IS YOURS BUT RESOURCES BELONG TO THE SOCIETY.

Germany is a highly industrialized country. It produces top brands like Benz, BMW, Siemens etc. The nuclear reactor pump is made in a small town in this country. In such a country, many will think its people lead a luxurious life. At least that was my impression before my study trip.

When I arrived at Hamburg, my colleagues who work in Hamburg arranged a welcome party for me in a restaurant. As we 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.

We did not pay much attention to them, as we were looking forward to the dishes we ordered. As we were hungry, our local colleague ordered more food for us.

As the restaurant was quiet, the food came quite fast. Since there were other activities arranged for us, we did not spend much time dining. When we left, there was still about one third of unconsumed food on the table.

When we were leaving the restaurant, we heard someone calling us. We noticed the old ladies in the restaurant were talking about us to the restaurant owner. When they spoke to us in English, we understood that they were unhappy about us wasting so much food. We immediately felt that they were really being too busybody.

"We paid for our food, it is none of your business how much food we left behind," my colleague Gui 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 claimed to be an officer from the Social Security organization arrived. Upon knowing what the dispute was, he issued us a 50 Mark fine. We all kept quiet. The local colleague took out a 50 Mark note and repeatedly apologized to the officer.

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.”

Our face turned red. We all agreed with him in our hearts. The mindset of people of this rich country put all of us to shame. WE REALLY NEED TO REFLECT ON THIS. We are from a country which is not very rich in resources. To save face, we order large quantity and also waste food when we give others a treat.

THIS LESSON TAUGHT US A LESSON TO THINK SERIOUSLY ABOUT CHANGING OUR BAD HABITS.

My colleague photostated the fine ticket and gave a copy to each of us as a souvenir. All of us kept it and pasted on our wall to remind us that we shall never be wasteful.

Please circulate so that our society would be enriched.