Money
November 13, 2009 –What is your relationship with money?
They say that money can’t buy you happiness. Honey, it was never meant to. Money buys you a comfortable life, a certain amount of freedom, oh and some luxuries, thats all. The happiness bit is up to you.
Money or the love of money is the root of all evil. Is it? Is it really? Regular readers will know that I don’t pay much heed to religious ramblings. But I am interested in the human condition and religion obviously has to tap into that so that it can make an impact and gather followers. Ergo some religious ramblings have to be examined.
We know that a lot of evil things are done for money, or to get money but an awful lot of evil things are done not purely for money but for power or for recognition or for spite.
I like money. Oh dont call me shallow! Im not. I think I have a healthy relationship with money. I dont take it for granted and I like to think I know its place in the greater scheme of things too. I don’t go crazy spending and I save far, far more than I spend. But money is for 3 things in my mind.
1. Security
2.Comfort
3. Fun
Things change when you have money. Oh yes they do. For instance; I lived in London when I was a mere slip of a lass of 17. I lasted, oh around about 3 weeks. No money. No decent place to live, no money to enjoy what London has to offer. No life really. So I came back home.
When I left university I worked for charities. If you want to be highly qualified and feel noble but get very low pay then I highly recommend it. I also experimented with living a simple life. I lived in communes and I even considered living at Findhorn. I once spent a weekend at a place that turned out to be a cult. I ran, well I walked :) Searching for something? Maybe. I prefer to think I was exploring different, alternative ways of living. I didnt find any that sat comfortably with me.
I know, I know, you wouldnt think that now. And please dont come and see me thinking I am a little bit alternative, a bit of a hippy. I’m not at all. I am very conventional, very far removed from that lifestyle. I just had to find my place in the world and it was the one I left behind a little while ago. So here I am back again. Its an interesting story, if you are interested in those kind of things.
So these are the things I have played around with. I dont come from a wealthy family and no-one has ever given me anything. Like most people I suspect.
But money. You know, it changes things. It changes a taxi driver from grunting at you to calling to Ma’am. You wouldnt think it would you? Its true.
It sounds as though I have won the lottery doesnt it? No I havent.
But money. I like it. I like the things and the experiences it can give me. I work hard (not just at this vocation, but at other things too). I pay my taxes and I dont sponge off the government. Just like you. Oh and I like nice things.
What does money do for you though darling? Does it bring you all the things you want in life? It shouldnt, not everything, but it sure makes things comfy -but you already know that dont you ;) x
PS I did have an amusing clip from Cabaret, you know, the one with Liza Minelli singing ‘Money makes the world go round’ until to my horror, I found that if you use Internet Explorer, which most people do, as soon as you land on my blog you get the full rendition. Not good if you are in a sensitive environment or if you tend to get fed up with Liza Minelli. So, dear friends, it is gone, disappeared, no longer, Kaput, oh dont start me off on the Monty Python parrot sketch :)
