Beyond Money

“I would not want to be rich, but if it makes of me a brainless, heartless and selfish spending machine with no compassion.”--- Anonymous

For many years, there had been little laughter and even fewer smiles throughout the world. People are quickly sensing the cheerless atmosphere, and words like, “inflation”, “unemployment” and “bankruptcies” have commonly grounded in our daily descriptions. The richest people in the world have gotten poorer just like rest of us. In the midst of summer, I began to question, why money has become eminently desirable more and more, every day. So, before I allowed my allusions to intrigue me, I decided to speak my mind that has been unwittingly captured by the essence of money.
In a true economics sense, money is anything that is generally accepted as payment for goods and services. Although when we say as, one has saved a lot of money in his/her investment portfolio, or makes a lot of money, nonetheless, we are talking about the wealth and salary here. More to the point, how much ever I would like to spotlight the definition, the money’s creation and growth seems intangible.

Money is the center of our society. From my personal standpoint, I do admit that life is way more fun when one can stop thinking about money and just live life. Regardless of whether I admit it or not, it costs money to bring a new life into this world and run a soul. It is the money what makes thing happen in the world. I know this runs contrary to everything we have ever heard since childhood about money—“It cannot buy happiness, it cannot buy health, and it cannot buy love.” Reality opposes to these innocent childhood tales. The fact is that money solves all the problem of being poor. Whether it could be an affordable health care coverage which money buys to save an injured life or the roof above one’s head to bring a good night sleep. Nagging truth is that, lack of sound finances has crumbled up many more families, has crunched many businesses worldwide.

There is no shame in admitting that I care about money. By all means I would like to garner wealth that can be utilized in productive ways. I admire Bill Gates and Warren Buffett not because they are rich because they could capitalize their mind abundantly. Talk about the jobs they have provided to million of households, children’s who are able to go to schools and ménage have been fueled because of their richness. Therefore, I hold the deep respect and understanding of what and where money precedes us.

Although the thought of owning money seemed too cumbersome, its ramifications as to how much is too enormous to even pinpoint. Bible quotes: “The love of money is the root of all evil.” I am perplexed to resolve this religious faith. Curelessly, I am more driven to an amorphous concern why in the world does the society gives money owners/ holders so much power? A sensation of poor being neglected is unfair and unhealthy. A county’s fate is defined by the per capital income, no body counts on how faithful, hardworking and genuine citizens are really. Really struck me. More than, I began to wonder where does the non-economic factor such as honesty, unselfishness exist in establishing economic hierarchy?

The problem does not underline for having it. By all means, money allows us to buy all the conveniences and other people’s time when needed. Money becomes a problem when people make it the most important thing in their lives at the expense of everything and everyone else. It becomes a problem when it becomes a royal obsession.
I excluded my thought of owning money for a minute. I then asked myself has life been preserved beyond money. I smiled and replied back to my own riddle, may be anyone who thinks money can’t buy happiness just doesn’t know where to shop because everything in this world whether good or bad, costs MONEY!