Human nature is just like this—truth often stings, and reality is cruel.

When you’re a kid, how your relatives treat you basically depends on the status of your parents.
After you get married, whether your relatives keep in touch depends on the status of the person in your family.
A poor person stands at a street corner, swinging ten steel hooks—but he can’t hook the flesh and blood of his own family.
A wealthy person goes deep into remote mountains and plays with knives, guns, and batons—but he can’t scatter a band of heartless hangers-on.
Other people’s attitude toward you conceals your value coordinates—you can flatter, but don’t lose your self-respect.