Last
Saturday, 9th of August, I was amongst the lucky viewers of Tanghalang
Pilipino's Golden Child at the Cultural Center of
the Philippines. It was a stage play and offered free as a privilege of
being a student reporter. Watching that kind of play at that high class theater
seems to be the finest hours of my life, so far.
The
play was literally full of sarcasms in the script which made the version funny.
Now, I just want to quote a line from one of the actresses who played as the
first wife of the Chinese man. She said: "Thank you Lord for the creation
of money. Without it, how will we measure true love?" The line was funny
for just a second but analyzing it, I realized that it was damn serious.
My
Economics Professor once mentioned before that in our present world, money is
not everything though it can buy almost anything. Practicality and reality
check, at these times, you can't just say that money is nothing. Maybe for a
while but not for a lifetime.
Today
is the moment when we can almost say that money truly makes the world go round.
You can love without money but can you live without it? Even in the sense of
love, money is still present. Sometimes, I laugh on those people who fully
profess their emotions towards their loved ones and yet still ask their parents
for their allowance.
In
politics or even in governance, people are fighting and killing other people
who are sometimes their friend just for the sake of money. Truly, they can't
bring it to heaven when they die but doing such irrelevant acts sometimes
connote that money is really important. You can't say that money is only the
poor's problem for even the rich ones consider money as one of their problems.
Money
is the root of evil - well, I don't think so. I believe that money is created
for the people, who somehow tells that it isn't dirty at all but love for that
paper is the root of all evil.
What
I'm trying to point out with this post?! Well, I just want to appeal on
everyone that we have to value money. I don't care if you're too rich or just
rich but you have to think that money is important to everyday living so don't
just waste it. If for you, money is nothing well you might think that for me,
it is otherwise. You can enjoy the simplest things yet not spending a lot of money.
Money
can't measure happiness or true love but it is for practicality on living our
daily lives.
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