How Does Money Affect The Power Of Money

People are living in the material world, and their behaviors are inevitably influenced more or less by money, and not always for the better change. While it is undoubted that money can possibly alter the thoughts and actions of people, short or long period, but this change didn’t last long for me. I used to be one of those people, who couldn’t resist the lure of the money, but what I experienced makes who I am now.
I realized that money can reduce the amount of work and effort I need to do since my cousin who didn’t study at all, but able to go to my dream high school because his parents paid the school. After that, he taunted me because his parents always took me as a role model and compared his bad behaviors to my good ones. So it is not …show more content…
My head teacher tried to talk to me, but I couldn’t hear one word from her, or take it into my heart. My friends tried to make me study, but I didn’t listen to them at all. My parents, they had such strong confidence in me, so they chose to ignore what was happening. The crisis reached its peak when I sent a message informing my head teacher that I would be reviewing at home, for Zhongkao. In China, Zhongkao is one of our national exams, which students must take and pass in order to get into higher level education. It was a reasonable excuse to escape school life but in fact, I didn’t review at home but instead playing video games, read non-fiction novels, and watched animations. I felt guilty sometimes that I was not being responsible for myself, but the next evil thought came through that reminded me money can take care of everything and occupied my mind that it was fine to do this, I would study harder after I relaxed a …show more content…
I got a firm score that I can go to anywhere except my dream high. So the next thing I did was to call my parents to pay the “choosing-school fee”, which actually was bribing the school officers to let me study in their school. This kind of special arrangement used to be very common, but now it is illegal. My parents were confused and shocked because they thought my score is good enough for me to go to my dream high school. I wasn’t very polite and nice when I ask them to pay, they said they would pay at first, but they changed they idea right after they knew what I had been doing lately, I was absent for so many days of the school, even the school’s security guards couldn’t recognize me anymore. I put the blame on guards; they were grandpas too old to remember a girl who would say hello to them every time when she passed the school