Rich story of Richard CoryThe poor people will never understand why Richard Cory, who is as rich as a king, committedsuicide. He has so much money, why he committed suicide? People murmured, shaking heads and sighing. If I were him I would be only too happy to death.
Well, pal, I’m afraid you won’t. We just see they drive Benz leave their villas but seldom of us know how they make their money by seeding sweat. They have hidden carefully their dim poverty past when they appear glitteringly in front of us again. The bread they ate has been replaced by ambrosia. If we take a close look at their lives like Richard Cory, we will find their sotries echo the standards of life put by a famous Chinese poet Wang guowei (王國偉). Mr Wang said people who wanted to be a sage had to experience three kinds of world（境界）: First, they will be lost in the world as they don’t know where the path lies(昨夜西風雕碧樹，獨上高樓，望盡天涯路----《鵲踏枝》，晏殊). Second, finding their directions, they work like a dog without grumbling(衣帶漸寬終不悔，為伊消得人憔悴---《蝶戀花》，柳永). Finally, when they reach their destination, they find they bark up the wrong tree. (眾裡尋她千百度，驀然回首，那人卻在燈火闌珊處---《青玉案。元夕》，辛棄疾).
Most of them, at the beginning, have a usual life like us, and they are also green-eyed for the rich, because rich is another name of happiness. They feel unsatisfied with they life as they are lost between the dream and the reality. The dream of being rich occupies their mind by dispelling other dreams such as to travel around the world, to be a great scientist, to be a respectful teacher. Thus, stirred by the petit bourgeois life, they start making money like a horse. Like a loyal follower, they devote themselves into the God of gold. To show their will, they are willing to scarify their time, energy, hobbies, even their family to attain their aim. Nothing in the world can deter them from their Odyssey of being rich, rain or shine, pain or bitterness. Day after day, penny after penny, they build the money kingdom from scratch. All of a sudden, when they sit in the empty inhumane shrine of gold, they find they have nothing but nothing but money. (Sir, I copy this usage from the swear of American hearings, is it right?). They find happiness has evaded from them for they are so busy to make money that they have no time to take care of happiness, which actually is make up by family, friendship, dreams they pursuit when they are young, hobbies they like. Dazing by the halo of gold, they take money for happiness instead that money is just one of tools of building happiness.