Tuesday, 5 April 2011

Money

 “Money is like a sixth sense - and you can't make use of the other five without it”
This five lettered word is the most powerful thing in today's world. We can laugh, enjoy, bring the world at our feet with the help of it. Again we can live a wretched life and be unhappy and keep droning without it. People like Bill Gates have become legends because they have money. It is more powerful than any weapon in this world because with the help of this we buy weapons. There are philosophers and rich people in and around our society trying to profess and purify human minds by saying money can't buy happiness . It not everything in life.Spike Milligan aptly said, "Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery."
Imagine a situation or an utopic world where money would be abundant. Money would lie like rocks and pebbles in the road. The trees would have money instead of leaves. The so called Money plant would actually yield money. Then could money rule this world? Would people really kill each other or fight to become super powers? Or could be then jokingly say  Money, Money, Money sweeter than Honey?

Its is common saying that in this 21st century emotions have become useless. People really don't care for it. Then my question is would people really start giving value to emotions?  Bo Derek, the American Actress, has said very rightly, “Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.”Well, our society is infested with criminals, murderers , cheats, traitors.There is a division among these miscreants also. The first group is related with money and the second group with people's emotions. Strangely enough our government has stringent laws for the first group of criminals but the second group is never brought to book. If I murder somebody it is a crime and i will be punished but if i murder somebody's faith and trust i am scout free. Well, personally i feel the second is more heinous crime than the first. Once you die your soul is free from all the turmoils of life but with the later your life becomes a hell. You are surrounded by an enigmatic world of traitors, cheats and you shaken completely so much so that you stop trusting yourself. . Then can money really solve this problem?
"Money can’t buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery". — said Spike Milligan. Well, the abundance of money can help us in building a society free from the evils of burglary, robbery, theft and in some cases murder.The only other group after the rich whose only concern is money is the poor. But the second problem can hardly be solved with money. I believe that a cheat is always a cheat. A cheat is like a blind man and if you follow him or rather dare to trust him you will definitely fall into ditch..
Things lesser in quantity is always valued. I hope this scarcity of money, this inequality or class division in our society has made MONEY more powerful than before . As the days are passing it is becoming more powerful. Its high time that we become and not sell our emotions and values at its hands.As the famous Russian born American novelist Ayn Rand rightly said,“Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.”

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