Free Lunch
Every body loves money, me included, but when you dramatically got a “free lunch” (money) without any reason, what would you do with it? My friend Jane took it as a drop from heaven.Last Saturday, she went to the Agricultural Bank to save five thousand dollars into her account through ATM. The weirdest thing happened to her, when she put five thousand dollars in the money entrance, the machine ATM screen says there are thirty eight hundred dollars were unable to identify and ask her to take away them, but the machine never opened the money entrance window. Jane immediately check her account, there is only twelve hundred dollars had been accepted in account. She realized the machine swallowed the unidentified money. Lucky for her, the manager of bank committed to help her to transfer the unidentified money to her account by this Wednesday. She went back to home with dubitation, because she feared the bank might cheat on her. By the end of that day, she checked the account through a telephone, turns out the bank transferred the other unidentified thirty eight dollars to her account already. Finally she felt relieved.Yesterday is Wednesday, she double checked her account and was astonished to found out there are extra thirty eight hundred dollars. Obviously, the bank made a mistake by retransferred money to her. She felt overwhelming and exciting, it’s like a gift from heaven. After work I accompany her to the bank and withdraw all of money and celebrating this heaven-gift with a big meal. She thought withdraw all of the money before the bank find out would be safer to her. Around 7 pm, she successfully withdrew the money and then we went to a fantastic restaurant, right when all dishes served on the table, her phone started rang, it was from the bank. She was answering the phone with tense tone, I could clearly sense she was nervous, when she was talking, the words became stammering, I had never seen her face was so unnatural. She grunted something to the bank. Hung off the phone, she didn’t seem any relieved from nervous. She was unable to enjoy the meal anyway, no matter how amazing they’re. She felt guilty and self-accusation for her behavior. But still, she called some friends for an advice, most of advices were “you ‘can’ have the money”, after all, it’s not your fault, but only if your moral would be strong enough to accept your behavior.” Last night she ate nothing, her mind had been kept struggling. She asked herself to possess those money thousands times, she persuaded herself as ” I can buy me the jewelry I always wanted, I can afford the sexy t-shirt I’ve been fancied, or I can buy a set of Green-Lite plasma LCD stand……” She had thousands of excuse to try to persuade me and her friends that she is not wrong with possessing the money. She dramatically changed her idea this morning, I have no idea what happened to her over a night. She decided to return the extra money to the bank. She told me that she’s so tired of obsessing judge her action, she was suffering a moral condemn and it’s unbearable. “There is no free lunch”, if you want a lunch, you have to pay it anyway! That does not necessary mean money, it can be your action, moral, mind, conscience……