Percik Pena Mengalir, Menawan Makna

Jack Ma, Chinese entrepreneur: If you put bananas and money in front of monkeys, monkeys will choose bananas because monkeys do not know that money can buy a lot of bananas. In reality, if you offer job and business to people, they would choose job because most people do not know that business can bring more money than wages. Profit is better than wages, for wages can make you a living but profits can bring you a fortune.   I’m taking quite more than enough quote up here just to make sure we have sufficient context to check. But, what he had said rang a bell in me. Spiritually speaking, of course. Monkeys, unlike us, don’t know the worth of money. They naturally, automatically, will choose bananas over money. How about us, humans? Do we think we have enough perspective to make the right choice? No, we don’t. In cases dealing with things more than “bananas and money,” we, earthborne-humans, don't know which to choose.  So, how do we know which? Let's get back to Jack. If only m...