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Take the time to earn true love
By Earle Gale (China Daily)
Updated: 2010-02-09 10:22
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We learned from the Beatles "money can't buy you love" but it was not until I read METRO in recent days that I wondered if it might actually be true.
Apparently, scores of millionaires are lovesick and they are doing what millionaires often do when they encounter a problem - they are throwing money at it.
With their days full as an egg with takeovers and mergers, it seems some of the capital's wealthiest inhabitants are unable to close the most important deal of their lives and merge their hearts with a mate.
We heard last week that around 100 matchmaking agencies were prowling the streets on the hunt for pretty girls willing to fall for entrepreneurs burdened with too much cash and too little time to find true love.
Apparently, the girls (yes, I guess our millionaires are all lovesick straight men) must be taller than 163 cm, single, well educated and bursting with other unspecified attributes.
Our forlorn millionaires - around 600 of them have signed up for the service - clearly are good at accumulating yuan but poor at accruing interest from a prospective life partner.
Well, their brains must be wired up wrong if they think they will find love by paying a stranger to snag someone on the busy streets of our fair city.
While the dating agencies will undoubtedly lure stadium-full of pretty girls (after all, this city is full of them), the chances of them finding Mrs Right are slim - and slim just left town.
Think about it. The only thing these girls know about you is you are rich and a little sad. Is that really the best way to start a relationship?
While I could easily hold forth about the absurdity of looking for your perfect match with a checklist that includes such arbitrary things as a minimum height of 163 cm, I prefer to dwell on our wealthy elite's pathetic time management.
Most millionaires using the service said they took the extreme step because they simply did not have enough free windows in their day-planners to look for that perfect girl.
Well, we all have the same number of hours in the day and you won't find her if you waste all your time scheming ways to make your next few million.
Take a break, put your empire in the hands of that trusted lieutenant, and get out there.
In short, put the pursuit of love before the pursuit of even more wealth.
The world will not end if you take your foot of the gas pedal, your kingdom will not crumble and, when you strike gold, you will realize what life is all about.
She may be in the street right now. She may be in a club or bar. She may be at the library or in an art gallery. You may even bump into her on the subway like I did when I met my one-and-only.
The good news is, when you see her, you won't have to waste a lot of time wondering. You will know the second you look into her eyes.
Apparently, there are 143,000 multimillionaires and 8,800 billionaires in the capital, that's one multimillionaire for every 123 Beijingers, so clearly most of our well-healed wonders are managing to find love. But for the 600, who have paid good money to have strangers look for it for them, please, remember that if a job is worth doing, it's worth doing yourself.
Pull on a pair of jeans instead of your Armani office suit, wear your best smile instead of that jewel-encrusted Rolex, carry yourself with confidence instead of carrying that infernal briefcase, then step out of the office and start living.
