Saturday, July 25, 2009

MONEY,MONEY,MONEY

Money,money,money
Must be funny
In the rich man's world

Money,money,money
Always sunny
In the rich man's world
It's a rich man's wolrd!!!!
-ABBA-


As of today,there are over six billion people in the world.Six billion people,thousands of languages.It may seem that we are detached somehow,isolated from one another;separated by the barrier created by different tongues.However,there is common ground,a language every man understands,whether black or white,Muslim or Hindustani,Catholic or Chinese.That language is that of money.Money is considered the most universal and expressive of all languages.As Marshall McLuhan once wrote,'Money talks'because money is a metaphor,a transfer,and a brige.
Money...The barometer of a society's virtue.One of man's biggest obsessions.According to Aristotle,all human actions have one or more of these seven causes:chance,nature,compulsions,habit,reason,passion and desire.Money drives us to struggle and strive to make every effort to accumulate wealth.This is of course because we are convinced taht with money comes happiness.It cannot be denied that money can buy almost everything;so much that it brings about the illusion that money can even buy happiness.After all,the wolrd does not judge us by who we are and what we know;it judges us by wht we have.
Some people even resort to fraudulent and deceitful ways to obtain wealth.In the pursuit of money,many evils are committed,most with absolutely no remorse or regard to ethics and conscience.The darkest hour of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.He that is of the opinion that money will everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money,which leads to perhaps one of the most well-known adages of all time,that the love of money is the root if evil.
The real measure of our wealth is how much we be worth if we be worth if we lost all our money.We should prefer poverty to the wealth of dishonest gain;the former irks us for a time.As Albert Einstein once said,not everything that can be counted counts and not eveything that counts can be counted.
-syieda-

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