The grass is not so greener on the other side.
Boat loads of people are stranded in some parts of the world trying to reach countries which are economically prosperous. If the figures reported in some of the press are correct, the people now stranded in Indonesia have promised to pay or have already paid the smugglers in excess of two million American Dollars for the passenger of 250 people. This translates in to over a million Sri Lankan Rupees for each head, which is a very large sum of money for someone like me who is presently employed in the Gulf even. Looking at the pictures it is evident that the average family cluster on that boat is about four per family. I was wishing if I can raise that kind of money (Rupees 4 million), not to pay some slave trader but to start up something of my own back in Sri Lanka. Some may try to take political advantage on the predicament of those people still stranded on those boats. These people neither political nor economic asylum seekers but a bunch fools who always believe that th...