I read this on a magazine when I went for a haircut. It was a post about Possesion&Enjoyment from this Taiwanese talk show host Cai Kang Yong on his microblog (or some sort of twitter in Singapore dialogue). Adore watching the show he host and I do it daily cause it makes me laugh most heartily. Can’t remember what his exact words were but here goes. In any case, it was in Chinese, so I’m doing quite a bit of translation. Some of which twisted into my own perception.
You can enjoy the company, love and joy that someone brings you, but you can never posses someone.
You can enjoy the status that you share with someone, be it as friends, family, lovers, husband and wife but likewise you still can’t posses the person.
You can enjoy happiness or the feelings of another, but you can never truly posses it as your own.
But you know what it is that can be both enjoyed and possessed?
Money.
You can enjoy the money you have on hands by spending it on something you love, donating to help the poor or spread it out on the floor and roll over it. Then, you can posses monetary items in exchange for the cash, or the receipt from your donations or happily see it stored inside your bank.
It’s people with their weird desires.
