“Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns--or dollars. Take your choice--there is no other.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Day in day out we work, our very being revolves around earning a living, working maybe at times for jobs we hate, sacrificing our sleep and peace and our health, all because we want to make a living to survive and live life. Our needs, our desires are inflamed by the propaganda of materialism. Look around you, there are hoardings screaming and inciting in you the "wants". It might be the desire to travel, see the world, the desire to own a thing of beauty, or simply just to satiate your taste buds; all have one thing in common, they all need money. Simply put, love it or hate it, if food is a necessity for survival, if a roof over your head is the basic need, earning and keeping money is the first step in living.
Why do most of us work? Why do most of us even study? The end result would be to make a living. Yes, with a few exceptions, for the rest of us it seems at times, the purpose of life is to make a living. To work, to earn , to pay bills and then repeat the process.
Whether we like it or not, whether we admit it or not, money is one of the most important aspects of our life.Food, clothing, shelter, and not to speak of all our desires cannot be reached without money. Call it energy, call it the root of all evils, but fact remains that for every action, we are dependent on it. Our relationship with money in many ways defines our relationship with life in general.
There are hoarders, whose whole life is moneycentric. The root of their happiness depends on how much they have and how much more they can have. Maybe it is the insecurity, maybe it is greed, but these are the millionaires who will watch out for every penny in their life. They are responsible, but to a certain extent enslaved by money. Instead of money empowering them, they are enslaved by it.
There are the cribbers, who will whine about not having enough, because it is never enough for them. Maybe most of us fall into this category; our desires racing faster than what we can gather. These are the money who feel the root of all their unhappiness is the lack of "enough" in their lives.
There are the drifters - people who want to spend more than they have. They are irresponsible, drowning in debt, with absolutely no respect to the power of money. They would like to be debt free, but without any effort at all. They spend faster than they earn.
And then there are the few enlightened ones, who understand that money is a powerful tool only if you control it . These are the people, who keep their perspectives right - they value it, but their life revolves around something more meaningful. They see money to be a tool - an energy, and yes like all energies, it is flowing and mutating.
And then there are people like me, with belief that it is the root for all evil. People who struggle to build a healthy relationship with power, who learn the hard way that love it or hate it, money does make the world go round.
Fact is although money is not everything, a healthy respect for it goes a long way in making life easier. To sum it all up “Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything.
Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings
There are hoarders, whose whole life is moneycentric. The root of their happiness depends on how much they have and how much more they can have. Maybe it is the insecurity, maybe it is greed, but these are the millionaires who will watch out for every penny in their life. They are responsible, but to a certain extent enslaved by money. Instead of money empowering them, they are enslaved by it.
There are the cribbers, who will whine about not having enough, because it is never enough for them. Maybe most of us fall into this category; our desires racing faster than what we can gather. These are the money who feel the root of all their unhappiness is the lack of "enough" in their lives.
There are the drifters - people who want to spend more than they have. They are irresponsible, drowning in debt, with absolutely no respect to the power of money. They would like to be debt free, but without any effort at all. They spend faster than they earn.
And then there are the few enlightened ones, who understand that money is a powerful tool only if you control it . These are the people, who keep their perspectives right - they value it, but their life revolves around something more meaningful. They see money to be a tool - an energy, and yes like all energies, it is flowing and mutating.
And then there are people like me, with belief that it is the root for all evil. People who struggle to build a healthy relationship with power, who learn the hard way that love it or hate it, money does make the world go round.
Fact is although money is not everything, a healthy respect for it goes a long way in making life easier. To sum it all up “Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything.
Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings
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