Reasons

 People who haven't been through all the difficulties, who haven't suffered from being poor can be optimistic about life.. They can hold their head high and say that as long as you desire something and work hard you'll be able to accomplish your dream. This is why I hate all those books that give useless encouragements.  False hope.. It's all false hope.. Read a book, fill your heart with hope and then come back to reality and have your heart broken by the cold, social status and money. Money.. the most scary thing in this world. 
     Your teacher announces a two day school trip with all your colleagues. It's the fourth school trip since you've been in school. You wish you could go and play with everyone but when you get at home you don't say a single word to your mother. You'll just make her sad because she can't give you the money so it's useless to even mention it. Mmmm.. I was a kid who always ignored school trips, who always pretended to be busy and couldn't go. My mom never asked me about any school trips.  I'm a person who would wear a pair of shoes until they were completely worn out because I was afraid to ask my mom to buy another because I knew she couldn't afford it.
    I knew we couldn't afford a lot of things and didn't even dream about them. I didn't envy other kids either. It wasn't right for me to be dissatisfied with everything my mom was trying to offer me. It would have been disrespectful to all the effort and work put into raising me. But now.. someone who's never experienced this.. not even once.. is telling me that as long as I work hard towards my dream, it will come true. It makes me angry. Why does this make me angry when I know he's just trying to help me? 
I've already started wanting too many things and I'm already dissatisfied with what I have. I want more.. and the more I want, the more it will hurt. I was happy not wanting things.. 
    I want more love, I want to be more beautiful, I want to be smarter, I want more clothes.. I envy others..  I'm a completely different person. Now I'm sadder, lonelier, poorer.
    There was a movie I really liked about a girl who wanted nothing more than the happiness of her family. After being cheated and betrayed by the man she loved she decided to be happy no matter the cost. She approached and fooled a very wealthy man into believing in her purity and innocence. She lied to him all the way. When he found out that although she did love him, she was still just a materialistic girl, this is one of the conversations they had..

" - Why? Why didn't you give up? Why did you go so far in order to enter this high class you are talking about? 

            - I also wanted to live while loving. Getting love and giving love.. I just want to "love". But..  I couldn't live just with love. 

            - Don't make excuses. There are people who think love is the hardest.

            - For me, living in the world is the hardest. Even though you wanted to believe in love, I wanted to believe in the world. "Being poor regardless of how hard I try.. is never your fault." Because there was no world that told me something like that. 

            - Is poverty a high position, something to be proud of? If you are poor, is it okay to use a person's sincerity? How is love related to poverty? Poverty.. is not something to be proud of. I was also in the same situation. I've endured it all when I had nowhere to sleep and nothing to eat. And.. I even rose to this position. Poverty? Don't make excuses.

          - For you, you had good fortune.

          - Good fortune?

          - The painting. That kind of good fortune doesn't come to everyone.

          - It was good fortune? What kind of crazy bastard would pay 30,000 Euro for something worthless? He bought it because he saw it to be worthy of 30,000 Euro! How could you call it "good fortune"? Okay, fine. Even if it was good fortune, it's a result of me working so hard in that horrible situation... that the world gave it to me as a reward.

         - But there is no such world for us. "If we try hard something wonderful will happen." That kind of world... we've never lived in.

        - Then are you saying I somehow got lucky and rose all the way up here?

        - The luck you were born with probably carried you all the way here.

        - Born with it? You know very well how I, alone, got to this position!

        - Because you are a person who can believe in good fortune. But I am a person who can't believe in things like good fortunes.

        - Stop talking like a loser!

        - ....  then do you also think that being poor, regardless of how hard I try.. is my fault? Being poor, regardless of how hard I try.. is just because I am dumb? Being poor, regardless of how much I've tried to get out, is because I lived my life wrongly?

       - I suppose it is. "

                                                                                     ( Cheondamdong Alice )

The person who bought his painting was his rich father.

Even though it's a movie.. this is how the world works.