While it's good to have a dream, being obsessed with it can be utterly disgusting

Do you think you can be poisoned with a dream or a goal u want to achieve in life?

My friend Q has recently changed his outlook of life after reading this book called 'Rich Dad Poor Dad.' While i agree that there are some inspiring phrases, i personally feel that the book is very misleading and may be very very poisonous to the mind. I fear my friend's changes are just confirming that feeling.

The book teaches that money isn't all important. People mistakenly think that they should work for money but it should be money that should be working for them. That is truly revolutionary. However, after reading through the chapters, you'll find that in order to make money work for u, u have to work hard for more money in the first place. The book teaches you that money isn't all important, but urges you to be engrossed in money making.

My review of the book will come later, let's examine the case of Q.

After reading the book, Q was very motivated and he aims to be an entrepreneur one day. Day and night, he'll wrack his brains to think of business ideas. Seeing that he's so obsessed , i gave him the signal of 'hey, take a break. money isn't that important.' He replied:' of cos money is not important, it's only a tool for you to make more money.' ironic

So he's not obsessed with money, but the wealth and success money can bring??? That isn't money?? what the hell is he obsessed with then?

i thought i should just leave it. Everyone is entitled to dream. i have dreams of becoming rich and famous too. I'm just not motivated enough. It struck me that i'm always lazy and reluctant to work. Hence, i updated my friendster profile- lazy, always sleepy, not motivated.

My friend Q was apparently not happy with this. For a moment, i was glad that he was so concerned but felt weird why he was so adverse to a friendster profile.

'you should not risk tarnishing your name even in friendster. In the world of business, you have to be credible. your reputation is just too important to be risked.'

Feeling disgusted, i replied ' thx.. but i don't live for the business world.'

I told him being too engrossed in that business world of his makes him a little less personable everytime.

The time came when he propsed a project for investment which i was impressed. I agreed to invest my money and effort into the project and it makes interaction between us intensive. However, we've now become more like working partners than friends. I don't appreciate this kind of relationship at all, even though it may earn me materialistic satisfaction.

I hope my friend is not too lost in the route of life, because the route of life is not to pursue one's dream blindly. He has to stop and look back at what he is leaving behind on the path. For this case, he has become less enjoyable to be with. If an equilibrium is found, i'm sure friendship and success can coexist.