Phase 5

"People can be satisfied by earning money themselves but some of them keep nagging about they don't have enough money to spend. Some people didn't need to earn money because someone can give them money to consume. "

"I'm curious about one thing, does the people who didn't earn money by themselves have guilt about not spending money wisely? Or themselves didn't have to work to earn money? "

"This limited edition character will be appear in this game next month! "

I stared at the computer screen then glanced at my phone. Shit, I just realised that I don't have enough diamonds (which means the resources in game) for the next character banner although I knew the character will came.

"Hey, you think I need to recharge in the game? " I sakes my friend who was on discord call with me while watching the promo video.

"I don't know, maybe you can try to whale in game just this once. It'll be worth it if you really get the character. " she answered my question and it seems right. I'll just whale this time just for that character.

Till the character banner came, I really got the character that I wanted and it seems so unreal to me. Life is good until I knew something that I didn't thought about saying out loud.

"Did you guys ever whale in game? "

My classmate who also played video games asked us about recharging in game.

It's pretty normal for a gamer to recharge or whale in their game just to level up or strengthen their characters or weapons rapidly. But they were many players who choose to be a free-to-play player without recharge anything in the game. I was so envy that they can tolerate the seduction in the game, such unswerving will they had.

"Yes I had, why did you ask about it? " I asked her why did she suddenly bringing up about this.

"It's not I'm going to say it sarcastic but I really think that it's not rational to spend money on these non-realistic things. I mean, why bother spending on these things while you can spend them on "real" things? "

She said it without hesitation as if she already had this thought a long time ago.

As a whale player, I can't relate to that because I thought that if I recharge the game and got the characters I wanted. As long as I'm happy, I thought was worth it. Spending money so casually without thinking rationally, now that's a very wrong thing for an ordinary person.

"Well, what makes you think of that? "

"You know that that I had doing part time jobs just to lighten my dad's burden. So I knew the value of money and I should spent on them wisely, not casually. "

Oh. I did not thought of that...I remember that I told them that I had spent amount of money on the game but I didn't paid attention for what I just said. Maybe I was the one who did the wrong thing? Maybe I should just kept that word in my heart. If I just paid more attention to the surroundings then nothing like this will happen. I was the worst at the end, to make my friend felt bad about it. I felt so humiliated when I recalled that in mind.

"Well, not all people are the same. You can use the money when you want. You can't just change their perspective towards money themselves. That's why people said" "Money can buy happiness". The most important thing is that as long as you're happy if you think it's worth it. "

Selena suddenly said those words to us made us flabbergasted. So she can said those words? What she said does make sense because I didn't thought of that, money really can buy happiness as long as we satisfied for what we spent on it. Just like she said, everyone has its own point of view, dosent matter who you are. While I'm in my deep thoughts, I felt like somebody's watching me. I lifted up my head and saw Selene shot me a glance to hint me.

"Dont you dare think of anything negativity. "

I squeezed a smile on my face to answer her. Yes, I got the message. Thank you for your counselling.

"I guess you're right. It is just from my perspective. Sorry for bringing up this topic. " my classmate who start the topic apologise to us but it feels like she doesn't really wanted to apologise properly.

It's too late to say sorry because you just made me guilty for spending money on the game. At least I had some cautious right now for not whale too much on the game. Think of my parents, think of my parents....

"Another new character will released on next month!"

Argh damn, you've got to be kidding me.