Remember that enforcement your parents do to make you do
something you don't really like doing? It's either you get a
candy, your birthday wish -- a pony, or money.
When you were a kid, you're not yet that adept on what money can
do for you. But as you grew older, it seemed like just about
anything could be attained or had with the intervention of that
clinking coin or that crisp bill called money. Until you reached
the age that you already and definitely know what extent could
money bring you to.
From buying you those neat sneakers, to getting you to college,
to making your girlfriend's gasp for breath when you presented
the diamond ring you gave as an engagement gift, subsequently
winning her yes to your marriage proposal, to buying you that
house and car that your family is currently making use of.
However, little did you know that it's not the money that gave
you all those things in life. Read on how and why this is the
case.
Who provided for your schooling in college? If it's your
parents, it's because they love you and they understand your
need of a formal education to breeze through life that made your
studying in college accessible.
If it's you who provide for your own education, it's your sense
of responsibility for your own and your realization of your need
for a college education that gave you the chance to be able to
study.
Most likely, why do you think your girlfriend agreed to marry
you? If you think it's because you had the money to buy the
ring, woe to your denseness. You don't really love her. But
that's another story.
Most likely, (yes, that adverb again), your woman just loves you
so much too. That is what made her decide that "hey, this guy's
the one I'd like to have as my children's father."
Also, to make things a lot clearer here is a list of 10 things
money can't buy:
1. Your kid's smile. Not that just-got-his-new-action-figure toy
smile, of course. 2. Your wife's TLC. 3. Effortless beauty,
which means a face or beauty that never underwent a cosmetic
surgery. 4. Your dog's wagging his tail due to his excitement
when you reach home. 5. A sunny but not scorching-hot weather
good for golfing. 6. Salvation of the Katrina hurricane victims
or safety from natural disasters. 7. Peace of mind. 8. Poverty,
er, getting every mouth fed. 9. Happiness. Genuine happiness
that is. 10. Peace on earth.
So, when somebody tells you that money makes the world go round,
you can try to memorize and tell him this:
"You're so clueless. Our very old solar system had change some
billions of years ago from a very huge mass of interstellar air,
which was squeezed or shocked by a supernova explosion that has
formed grains and dust.
"These particles melded to construct parts of rock which
gradually became small planetary bodies.
"The bigger they grew, the more their gravitational attraction
got more intense thus and the better they attracted more
particles and rock fragments while revolving around the sun.
"Since the first shockwave was from a certain direction the
particles had a net rotation around their center of gravity.
Humans eventually examined and labeled that direction as
"counter-clockwise".
"Galileo and Newton discovered that that rotational energy is
saved and the planets and sun got their spin from the orbits of
their part's particles.
"Now, some 5 billion years later, all that energy from rotating
is still contained in the revolutions and rotations of the parts
of the solar system."
Now, where's the involvement of money in that whole process of
reasoning what makes the world go round, which was what made it
go round way back before we were all even born? NONE.
Moreover, if you still see people either robbing banks or
working too hard when they already have enough money to make
both ends meet. They are not trying to make their world go
round, they're driven by either frustration due to poverty or
sheer discontentment.
But if you would try to introspect really deep, you'll
understand that money is just an instrument and not something to
depend our life on.
About the author:
James Monahan is the owner and Senior Editor of
MoneyLiving.com and writes
expert articles about
money.
