The Reality of Money

For those who have enough of bills, they do understand the financial compromises required to somehow scrape by; with some degree of sanity left behind (or sometimes none, even). I read Rich Dad, Poor Dad a couple of years ago and one statement stayed with me: Money is power. Money is power in the form of its knowledge. Most people would now begin to talk about the negative side of money, about how having too much or too little of it causes the human mind to slowly unhinge itself and whatnot. That's overused. Instead of antagonising or glorifying money way beyond its actual value, what we can understand is the influence it altogether has over us - for better or worse. How do we not let our bank balance grindingly affect us? This is one of the questions which are yet to be explored.

Money controls our lives. As per the range of our income and expenditure balance, we buy and order things to make life easy. I, for one, tend to luxuriate in the fact that my family can comfortably afford a regular Amazon Prime account. So, the fine line between necessity and desire has completely blurred. We do take the Wi-Fi for granted, and when it acts up, our daily activities really come to a sudden stop.

Truthfully, the average human being is unconditionally conditioned through no impulse of his own that in order to live a better life, money is A GIVEN. I respect that immortal fact. A standardised security is one of the guarantees of any means of exchange. Money - notes, coins, pennies - gives you that, and more. It gives you validation. It gives you self-sufficiency. It's the apparent benchmark by which you are defined in society. With no concrete agreement, this has somehow come to be. Is this right or wrong? I'll leave you to unravel that.

What I mean to say is that money is like a toy. We play with its rules and like it very much. We put it above ourselves, sometimes. But when we don't have enough of it, life in its simplicity becomes very difficult. We cut down on purchases. We save more. And then again, most of us engage in the old cycle of being either a miser, a spendthrift or both. The real aspect of money is how it makes us so vulnerable in our self-worth. I'm not claiming that money is bad (it's helping me write, after all) but some of us tend to measure the estimate of our self-esteem based on how much ready cash we can provide. For example, class in the social structure is determined by something as fluctuating as money. If we can't keep up with the climbing numbers in the grand total of the hospital bill, we feel terrible. All sources seem to close up. You can't do anything about it. That's UNTRUE.

We think that it's out of our power to do something about the low amount. The way we avert money problems because of apparent incapacities just pushes us into a deeper rut. Most of the time, they are self-created and self-envisioned. As a result of which, money gets all the blame. Fear and uncertainty naturally play a major role. But, it depends on how YOU depend on yourself to see through it till the very end. Then, the bank balance doesn't really matter anymore. You are always in control.

You can't let go of your initiative midway. Money is ALWAYS asking to come back to you.

It can't - unless you let it in.

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