Simple happiness

I was walking down Caporn Street to the shopping center, passing by a small lemonade booth set up by two little girls.

Girl: Would you like a lemonade?
Me: No, thanks.
She was a bit disappointed, and said to the other girl, "We have no business..."

Trying not to disappoint her, I asked, "How much is it?"
"15 cents," answered her.
I handed her 50 cents, and waited for my lemonade to get ready. Meanwhile, she was looking for the change, obviously, i confused 15 with 50. So I gave her a 20 cents coin, got back the 50 cents, asked her to keep the change, and told her that I would grab my lemonade on my way back home.

When I went back, they have left the booth, but I found a lemonade on the table. Apparently, they left it for me. So I grabbed it, and walked towards home.

A girl was running over towards me, it was the lemonade girl.
Girl: My friend is going home; my mum said i couldn't do it alone, so we just closed the booth.
Me: Don't worry.
Girl: Have you tried the lemonade? My friend and I made it by ourselves; it's very nice, better than the ones in the supermarket!
Me: Oh really?! Let me try. (I took a sip) Yes, it's quite nice!

Walking in the same direction with her, i continued the conversation.
Me: so how much did you make today?
Girl: hmm, let me see (counting the coins in her hand)... 1 Dollar & 80 cents.
I couldn't help smiling, "haha!"
Girl: Why? That's quite good!
She appeared a bit serious, so I stopped laughing and assented, "yea, that's quite good!"
"Earlier this afternoon, we had different sizes of cups, and a large one sells 50 cents!" She looked very happy and proud.

When we reached my apartment building, we saw another boy from my neighbours. "Hey! We sold all the lemonades, there's no more for you!" Apparently, she's showing off.
"You want to have mine?" I offered him; he was silent, and looked sad.

Later, I heard him talking to his mother, "They were selling lemonade and they sold all."

A large lemonade selling 50 cents can make a little girl happy; an afternoon's total earning of $1.8 could make her thrilled; a job making and selling lemonade could bring her pride. What about us?

Watching my favouriate Australian show, "Deal or No Deal", I felt lucky for the people who walked away with huge amounts of money. However, how many people didn't stop when they should? Everybody says, "I don't want to be greedy"; however, in front of all the shining money, a tiny little hope that it might become theirs edges out their intellect, they became greedy and lost more on the contrary.

So everything boils down to one simple question, "How much is enough?" While we are struggling to make more money everyday by all means; while we are complaining about the lack of $$$ every minute, are we losing the most important things along the way, the things we used to treasure, the things we are looking forward to in the future, the things we are working towards, the things we think we will enjoy in the future, such as happiness, or a holiday.

When the difference between the poor and the rich can be summarized as the difference bewteen lying on a beach in Perth and Hawaii, why would a Perth person work so hard, save everything to fly to Hawaii?

And think about the days when we were little kids, when we could smile because our parents got us a candy. If we still have that mind of contentment, life would be much simplier, and we would be much happier!