My friend stepped out of the house one afternoon with a simple mission: buy a few things from the nearby shop. Nothing dramatic. Nothing risky. Just a casual errand armed with a single RM100 note. Fate, however, had other plans.
As he pulled the RM100 out of his pocket, a sudden gust of wind swept past him like it had somewhere important to be. In one tragic, slow motion moment, the note slipped from his fingers and disappeared into the unknown. It was gone. No dramatic chase scene. No heroic dive. Just silence… and the sound of his wallet crying.
Naturally, he searched everywhere. Under cars. Along drains. Around bushes. He even stared intensely at the ground as if the money might feel guilty and reveal itself. Nothing. The RM100 had officially chosen freedom. Now, this is where an ordinary person would sigh, accept defeat, and walk home in sadness. My friend, however, is not an ordinary person. He is a thinker. A problem solver. A man of science.
Calmly….disturbingly calmly…. he reached into his wallet and pulled out another RM100.
His logic was flawless, at least in his own mind.
“If I drop it again,” he reasoned, “I can see which direction the wind is blowing.”
Yes. Instead of learning from the mistake, he decided to conduct a live wind direction experiment using legal tender. So he held the second RM100 up, waited for the breeze, and deliberately let go. The wind, clearly enjoying its role in this story, did not hesitate. It carried the note away with the same enthusiasm as before. Just like that, the experiment concluded.
Result: Wind blows somewhere over there.
Conclusion: He is now RM200 poorer.
In the end, my friend learned many things that day. That money is lighter than pride. That wind cannot be negotiated with. And most importantly, that curiosity truly is expensive. Some people pay for education. Some pay for experience. My friend paid RM200 to learn the direction of the wind and still went home without buying anything. Honestly, science has never been so costly.
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