Pig takes half day off

“Robert, this afternoon, I won’t be able to work in the garden with you. Can you do it alone?” I said.

“Sure.” Robert nodded his head. “Where will you go?”

“I don’t go anywhere. I stay at home.”

“Then why can't you work in the garden?”

“I am writing a strategy for my online career. I need to revise it and perhaps I will make a new one. You know! my financial situation.”

“Why do you do strategy?”

“Because it is a thing to make a work go even though it is a job or business. Even living our lives, we need to have a strategy as well.”

Robert wagged his head, “I see.”

Pig works harder and harder

Before I got up at 8am, but after I removed the adsense from my youtube channel, I got up at 6am. I worked in the garden and took one hour off to have lunch then I continued working till 5pm.

After I had dinner, I took a shower then I brought my laptop to sit in a chair in my front yard.

“These days you seem to work a lot,” Robert said.

“I lost a part of my income; I cannot have leisure time like before,” I said.

“Well, what are you doing?” 

“I am updating my websites.”

“Website?”

“I’m a blogger. It’s one of the jobs that humans do to earn money.”

“What do you do as a blogger?”

“Write.”

“Write what?”

“Anything. Like me, I write creative stories, administration job experience, food and travel, and sample TV commercial script.”

“I don’t understand any of them, but I think you are a super pig.”

“Do you want to be a super dog? I am pleased to be your mentor.”

“Yes, yes.” Robert wagged head in a row before he came to sit on a chair next to me.

Greedy makes pig lose

“Are you okay?” Robert asked when he heard me have long and heavy breathes in a row.

“I am not okay,” I said. “I have to confess that I am not okay.”

“Are you angry with them?”

“No, I am not angry with them; I am just not okay with myself.”

I knew that Robert didn’t understand, hence I explained after I drank a hot passion tea.

“Actually since the beginning, that company told already that my location is not eligible to apply for monetization on their website. Because I wanted money, I changed the location to get permission to get my videos monetized. They know, they know that I lied but they still allow it. Before I didn’t understand, but now I understand - like the Buddha said about karma; we are the ones who are responsible for our own action. Because I lied to them by putting their own country as my location, I must pay tax according to their country’s tax law. A poor country pays tax to the rich country, can you imagine? It’s the reason that in order to get USD 100, I had to spend two years. Now, they add another tax; at first, I was angry with them, but after thinking, it is not their fault, it’s my own greed who kills myself, they wanted me to learn my own lesson. It’s the result that I lied.”

“If you understand it, why are you not happy?”

“The unhappiness that I am having now is the punishment from my own doing.”

“Oh I see." Robert wagged his head. "After that, what will you do?”

“I will remove adsense from my video channel and I will change my location to my true location. Not only on that website but also other websites - I will change location to Cambodia and let it decide to allow me monetize or disable my videos. I will earn money by working hard and with sincerity.”

“I support you,” Robert said and raised his palm.

“Thanks buddy,” I said and raised my palm to meet with his; and we both smiled.

After pig receives email

“Robert,” I said “I won’t be able to meet you for a few nights.”

“Why?” Robert said.

“I am busy checking my account after the company asked me to pay another tax. Also I am busy thinking whether I should continue all my accounts or not.”