Another way of life
Every day after dinner, on the way to the park to exercise I pass a food stall within a big TV outside the door. Actually, I don't know what function this TV set has——it’s very hot and there are no desks or tables for guests in front of the stall outside. Normally, there’s no one watching that TV, which always plays historical dramas.
I pass the TV twice a day, one time at 7 and the other around 8. Each time when I come back I always see a man watching the TV on his shared bike. He always sits on the bicycle cushion with feet on tiptoe, staring at the TV just like a statue. It is a poor man with a thin face, shoulder length hair and shaggy beard wearing ragged clothes. He is always there on time like a diligent woodpecker. The noisy environment and passers-by couldn't even distract him. He always get satisfaction from the drama. Sometimes, he even smiles contentedly.
I guess maybe he can't afford a TV set in real life, or he doesn't think it's necessary to buy one. In any case, I admire him for his persistence.
There are a lot of people living at the bottom of society. Maybe we don’t have contact with them and are not familiar with them, but they survive in their own way.
Money cannot completely define a person's quality of life, because the attitude towards life is also an important part.
