The Businesschildren !
By: Prof. Kirya Ahmed Nasr
Don’t feel astonished or taken by surprise at the very mentioning of this shouting strange title. A soliloquy might be accepted in dialoguing with your veryself. Children of school age, in the baking hot sun of summer. Nay, even in a supersunny weather, running their commercial businesses with their sweat running as rivers down their cheecks.Yep, real children of school age racing with their real old mates in running successfully some sort of businesses; small kinds of businesses.
I viewed with my naked eye a seven-year-child tying a bundle of a thousand-banknotes-papers,placing it near its other sisters. A sum that causes driving of saliva out of my dry mouth.Talking to myself: “sure, it’s a hundred thousand of our local money. It sounds good to me. A child this age to possess this good sum of money ? How awful ! At our times, a child grabbing a pound was to be seen as so miraculous. What a super-inflation ! I’m not a kind of jealous or envy ; but, a child this age to be a well off business child? It couldn’t be. He is supposed to be doing well at his schooling, to prepare themselves for a bigger future kind of business that worths.
A curiosity has taken me to set some queries and questions to those young business guys.They, in good sarcasm, answered me: “We might not return or go back to school again. We don’t want to be lashed and mocked at. We need to bring and raise money.” Yep, cash ! They told me: “the easiest way to collect money, is to get down to business.”
Alas ! They don’t want to waste their precious time.They started to develop a motto that says: “at the end of the day, life is about collecting money.”- Is it?
They sell all different kinds of exported and local goods; soap, both bath and washing soaps, blue cubes, razors, tissues, napkins, underwears, scratches…etc. Whatever brings them money, they sell. One may see these things as trivial things, but really there is money in them.
Those young business-guys , in fact, have shown great success in this field ; great traders ; young well off guys ; a new business-guys sector; full businesschildren to the bone. So, we have businessmen, businesswomen, and recently, wow ! Businesschildren .
Hey ! Is there any hope for the resumption of school activities ? – the parents always ask, whereas the children turn deaf ears.They don’t want ,at all, to go.They find themselves in their new careers. Really as they say: “Money talks and sometimes walks.” But, believe me child, it’s a good servant, but it’s a bad master. A dolesent ,in fact, isn’t easy to be convinced. Hey child ! Turn to school to qualify yourself, then you can get double or triple of what you could collect now . Believe me ! Money comes and goes; but education is immortal; it lasts ; it promotes. You see ?
-life, is about to buy ‘n’ sell
-but, schooling is so as well
-the difference is education
-Oh! brings so high a nation