Money, Money, Money...

...Its so funny,
In a rich man's world.

Quite a famous song!
But more so a reality neither you nor I can deny.

The world runs around money. Relationships revolve around this central magnetic force. Let us call it the core of our existence. I as well as most of you have learnt or will learn sooner or later that this necessary evil called "money" is the epicentre of the storm we call "life".

Its amazing how relations as pure as that that of a mother and child can turn sour because one of them cannot provide "money" to the other. We have seen umpteen cases of a variety of relations like parents and children, siblings, husband and wife , friends, relatives etc pushed to the deep abyss of ignominious nothingness for this very evil we so love to amass. Our whole lives are spent earning, spending and fighting over it. Core of our existence, or bane of our life?

In our constant endeavour to amass wealth, we refuse to acknowledge the beauty of all things simple...in the end, we realize that we are gasping for our last breath and look on with glazed, partially impaired eyes how all the wealth we had accumulated are being fought for...as the debate on inheritance increases in pitch, our call for the last drop of water melts into the maddening war cries. We die with a dry throat and a parched soul.

But what if we fail to create a wealth worth fighting for? Ironically, we still die with a dry throat...who would bother to be at the deathbed of an old, withering soul with no money to look forward to for inheritance. But will the soul be as parched? I don't know.

That does not mean we can do without money. Hell no!. Money is a way to various means. We need it for various purposes, it provides us with a roof over our head, food and drink to fill our stomachs and clothes to cover our body. It helps make our life much easier in many ways. But only if we could strive to let it remain a sine qua non and not necessarily make it an evil thing.

Maybe someday, I'll be able to explain...till then...perhaps, someone will read this and remember once more that we're humans with a heart and not just money making machines. Just Maybe!