The Root of All Evil

“Money is the root of all evil. But without roots everything dies”

“Money can’t buy you happiness, but it’s a sure tool to make yourself and others happy, thereby making you happier”. It’s my twist to an old adage. (Hmmm, maybe the fact that I twist many things, adages, and beliefs to my liking may have caused misfortune in the first place. I think too much..) Surely money can’t buy everything but for me it’s surely true that money makes the world go round.

You can be a happy family without cash, but the mere lack of money can cause hunger, sickness, lack of nutrition, education mounting to family breakdown and eventually ending a person and his family whom he says can live without money dead. Let me ask you something. If you live in the urban areas which we will both presume you don’t mean to since birth, Can you live with your loved ones without eating? You may boast of a fact that “ We live only by our own means, planting crops on our small garden, selling spare harvest to pay for our necessities.” Then here comes the reaper: a greedy businessman or a government official decided to forfeit your land for some “for the nation” project. (it still happens in the Philippines up to now) give you so much cash (if your lucky coz sometimes they treat you as aliens in your own land) You thought you couldn’t spend for a lifetime say, 1 Million. For some of us, 1 million seemed an endless fortune well. An endless supply of money. ( you think? Then you’re wrong) In reality, you could actually lose it so fast that even I could spend it faster than you could say “savings account”. Now, when all the money is spent Can you still say you can’t live without money? Would you plant your crops in the highway? And it all boils back down from the beginning. You lose food, education, breakdown, blah blah blah… and DIE. Definitely money is an integral part of society. “we can all live without it...remove money from the system.” Do you want to mess America? Chaos…..Yeah like a communist if we can all be converted and yes I believe we can all live without cash if we all want to, if you like to return to the stone age and all the dinosaurs come back to life… Sounds Cool (and sarcastic and lame and corny and stupid)

"Money is like a sixth sense, you can’t make use of the other five without it.”
You can’t see if you can’t take care of your eyes. Say, good nutrition, poor lighting while studying. When eyesight deteriorates, you can’t even afford a pair of glasses. Yes folks, this is the typical 3rd class Filipino. You can’t buy a hearing aid? Can’t afford an mp3 player to enjoy your hearing senses while you still have it. If you are modest about your finances, you can’t even buy a transistor radio for goodness sake. Good thing we can steal music from our neighbors. While they’re listening to music the overflow of sound we still could hear. (Sorry but I can’t help but to add this. Some tactless individuals can buy all the luxury they can afford, from the latest gadgets, phones and players, while compromising the bare necessities and the overlooked task to prepare for retirement. When the health and youth are gone and you haven’t a penny to spend, You can’t enjoy listening to music anymore.) Can’t taste good food? Rotting and dying in your rut without even experiencing a fancy to your palettes. Fragrance, flowers? Oh the stench of your dilapidated home if you could call it, in a nearby “estero”. How could you feel the warmth of the touch of your family, after your spouse left you for some “richer” fellow.
I may sound so negative. But it’s the sore truth that without the spending power in the world we live in today, you can’t enjoy the good things in life much less enjoy even the most basic of our needs and birthright.

Some claim to have died in peace in some God-forsaken province without having to bother having or spending money. I salute them…Good for them. But can we all follow suit? Can we just all go there to that place where money is not a factor. Yippey!!! Then what? When 20 million people go there to that so called paradise, the need for money will follow. Coz the resources wouldn’t fit and it would be paradise no more. I’m open to critics. I love it coz I’m a critic myself. I stand to my belief that in this world, without money you are nothing. Nothing but a second rate trying hard “coffee cut” (how stupid is that) I can explain, When you’re broke and all you eat is coffee, then all the disappointments and trials looms down on you, YOU CUT YOURSELF! That’s too much coffee then you CUT! ( how stupideeeer)