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Money is not the Only Thing That Matters
by Teresa Robert
Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Rated "G" by the Author.

       


     Gregory lived with his parents in a small town in the suburbs of Louisiana.

 Gregory lived with his parents in a small town in the suburbs of Louisiana. They were a very happy family. He lived there with his elder brother, two younger sisters and his parents. They were known widely over the town for their ever so generous behaviors and it was something that was passed down to generations. Gregory also studied in the local college that was just down the road from his house and he loved science especially. He always believed that he is going to become a good scientist one day and because of his abilities it didn’t appear very over ambitious of him to think so.

Gregory was a very famous boy in the whole town. He was the one that would always lend the elderly people a hand and he was also the one that would help the children to write term paper if they didn’t feel like doing it. He was in grade 12 currently but his love for books had made him study all sorts of things. Gregory always thought that there was something more in him; something that would make his name get written in the history books once he passes away. He believed that one day he would wake up with a genius idea that would completely change the world. His thoughts and his dreams did in fact turn into reality on a June morning.

He woke up late for college and was feeling sick. He couldn’t get up to freshen up and make his way down the road so he just sat on the porch looking at the college and contemplating what he could have learned had he not been sick. At that time he came up with an exceptional idea to be able to virtually be present in the college classroom while in fact still be in the home. He quickly called up his professor and decided to write a research paper on it.

The research paper got accepted and soon Gregory almost became a celebrity with every TV channel trying to get his news spoken about in every show running. He soon decided to establish his own company, but he didn’t really have the workforce at first. He did still get everything up and running and the first prototype was prepared. This is when a company that was a lot bigger in size than Gregory’s offered him a partnership that would be monetarily very beneficial too. Gregory’s father urged him to take the money and hence the partnership because it would help them financially as they were not very well off at that time; he also added that it would be a good help in management. Gregory was very stubborn though, and he thought that within some years he would become as big as the company itself. What followed was tragic, Gregory’s family met an accident and everybody died. Gregory was very silent at the funeral because it was the financial issues that forced the family to go out on a public vehicle to a hill station rather than a personal vehicle. It was then that he realized that money is not the only thing that can make you rich and happy.

 

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