“Can I get a lunch or dinner from you?” asked an unusually extremely polite Diane.
“No!” I answered abruptly, curtailing her from explaining her reasons for asking the free meals.
I questioned Diane why she wasn’t working since leaving college about three years ago. Her excuse was that she couldn’t get a satisfactory job anywhere else. Perhaps she had develop being lackadaisical, living on the occasional generosity from all her friends and the continuous handouts from her siblings and parents.
I whipped out my Bible from behind my back pocket of my pants and showed her these verses in 2 Thessalonians 3:10-12, asking her to read it out loud to herself, Even while we were with you, we gave you this command: “Those unwilling to work will not get to eat.” Yet we hear that some of you are living idle lives, refusing to work and meddling in other people’s business. We command such people and urge them in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ to settle down and work to earn their own living.
“But nobody wanted to employ me!” Diane rejoined trying to justify her idleness.
“The answer to getting a job is not to be choosy,” I reprimanded her, citing the following sayings from Confucius, “Ride on a cow to look for a horse!” J
I couldn’t imagine how a person could be idling away for three years? This is truly a Malaysian Idle!
Get a job and experience transmutation from being a Malaysian Idle to a Malaysian Idol! ( Chairman Mao® )
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