Roly, let's take comfort of the fact that both our wives don't blame us for what happened to our respective money. I don't know why just before or after my birthday in Oct each year, I either become too rich or too poor depending upon the market's action. Maybe because I was born at a time of crisis---a day in World War II when my mother and me was surrounded with sacks of rice to shield us from stray bullets from the skirmishes between the Filipino guerillas and the Japanese occupying forces...I survived the war to experience various setbacks in the stock market, I suppose...
Let me tell you a story told by my mother which was told to her by my sister now working as a nurse in Libya:---One day when I was too young to remember what happened, two planes, one American and the other, Japanese, was having a dogfight above the sky while my sister and me were walking on the rice paddies. Suddenly the Japanese plane crashed down not too far from us in a huge ball of fire with thunderous sound that might have damaged my eardrum that caused my sister to cower in fear amidst the rice stalks, shouting ---"Ading (little brother), come here, we are going to die!" ...as I stood unmoved over the rice paddies, watching as if a beautiful scene, the ball of fire, calmly assuring her ---"No!...Manang (older sister), we're not going to die...Mamang (mother) isn't here yet!"...
I've had so many setbacks in the stock market but always came back stronger out of them--- each time!... |
