Everybody,
everybody out there is running for money. With money come the greed, crime and
one too many other sinful human acts.
Money
comes with different face values. It does come in coins and in papers. Money
has different names: sometimes it’s called dollar, sometimes pound, euro and
some other times rupees. The interesting part is if you have money you can
convert it into your desired denomination and currency form, only that the
number of notes or coins will vary. Money management is but a travail when you
ought to make a single trip with multiple touchdowns in different countries.
It’s simply amazing that money can be stored and availed in various and various
forms and formats.
Nothing
is more valuable than money in this modern world of competition and
ostentation. Success has, as is judged nowadays, been just another term for
money. Enmity is the name of a relationship what you get between acquaintances
when there is money involved in between. People forget brotherhood for money.
Family would not have appeared just an illusory a term unless there was money
out there.
We
aim for happiness all our life and we think we can purchase all that happiness
that we need from money but in turn we end of getting into all the trouble and
sorrow. In seeking happiness, which is nothing but a mirage for human life, we
actively participate in the race to gross more money. Eventually it’s not until
late that we realize there is no such trouble in the moon and back as harrowing
and excruciating as that we get from money and its consequences.
There
is money ahead of you; you forget your own hunger, sleep, thirst, instinct,
relations and sadly humanity and just in a matter of time, you are forgotten
after that your identity is buried in the layers of history that never would be
written, and thus, known. In this way, you lose your precious life as a
commoner in the relentless run for money. Even the air we breathe —as was
witnessed in Beijing some months back—has to be bought sometimes, let alone
water or other things, we need money to move on, but we do not need more than
enough of it for life is not all about banknotes and credit cards.
Money
is pretty expensive to get when you are poor. You are poor means you don’t have
money and vice versa. Salary is a sum of money we get from the employer after a
particular stint of work-time. Jobholders work on dues for 29 days and think
salary is always smattering, but for the employers that same amount is way too
smashing. Similarly, when you are to buy something it’s always overpriced for
you but for the seller the same price would be dirt cheap. The position where
you stand—whether you are a buyer or a seller—hence changes the perception you
make about the price.
Why
is this corruption and bribery? We want money and we want it more. When we
ponder over the jeremiad of our spouse for: buying a new house downtown,
getting a new car, admitting the children in dearly kindergarten, shopping an
elegant dress from Victoria’s Secret; we start to salivate on the extra amount
of money that would come from the backdoor. We think, at first, money would
settle all the disputes and dissatisfaction. However, in reality, it increases
them ever more. We compare our economy with another peer engaged in a lucrative
business and we yearn for more money. The run for money never ends till the end
of this world.
Just
think about a day of our pathetic life that desperately needs and hovers around
money. We wake up from a $100 dollars bed; go to have a hot shower heated with
$600 dollars solar heater; we use soaps, shampoo, hairdryer, shaving machines
and cream, toothpaste and brush, hair-oil, moisturizer and endless list of
thingummies purchased from money at some point in the previous. The car we
drive, regular or posh, did not come for free and it does need to be fed with
periodic ‘servicing and maintenance’ money with more repeated ‘fuel’ money. We
work in an air-conditioned, marble paved, classy office whose building cost was
$1 million. Splurging more money with high-speed internet, electricity,
telephone calls and so on we engage ourselves into drudgery without bending our
head to earn money for our organization which consequently doles out money as
salary on individual basis. We pay $5 bill for the lunch we eat in a bistro. We
bargain for discount every time we go to shopping. We wrangle, say, in the gas
station for few cents they would not return since they have no change. Every so
often there is near kerfuffle between the conductor and a passenger for money.
Money
should be considered as only a life engine for satisfaction is not something we
get from earning it. But when you want more, you are stingy, unsocial,
solitary, always running which make you an ever disaffected wretch. Seek
satisfaction from something else, not money. We could purchase groceries and
commodities from money, not relations.
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