Only Funny In The Rich Mans World

Perhaps a break from the heavy stuff is in order? I think this is a good medium to talk about the things that are close to my heart. But now i think about it, what is close to my heart?

Allow me to get to my point in a round-a-bout anecdotal way. I'm on the yearbook committee, and it was my job to type up everyones profiles (about 150 all up) into word. As boring as batshit but it gave far more of an insight into people than i'm sure they realised when they wrote it. I am fully aware of the fact that i'm generalising here, but just allow me to digress. What genuinely surprised me was that the louder, more extroverted population of the year struggled far more evidently with their forms than the quieter (and lets be honest, nearly always asian) students. I mean, the quieter people (particularly the girls) had covered every square centimetre in writing, where as the others had maybe a only a few lines on them. Esspecially the "three words that describe me" question. Nearly every single person who i would have described as calm, shy or quiet wrote that they were "crazy" or an appropriate synonym. But i've digressed off my digression.

What got me thinking was the last question. "Where do you see yourself in 10 years?". There were only two answers. Half the school was in a nutshell "With a good job as a doctor (or something similar) and earning lots of money", or they were "doing something that makes me happy".

And that in a nutshell is my point. I will be honest. Nearly every single money based response was from an asian kid. Im not racist, and i'm not trying to give that impression at all. It just got me thinking. Why that division? What is it that makes us need money to achieve what we want out of life.

I'm not going to claim i'm immune from this innate love of money. Despite its reputation as the root of all evil, money makes my world go round. Money makes everyones world go round. Money is what makes the world go round poor Timbutu. Money makes our world go round, but that dosnt mean it should be the center of it.

Yes. I want money out of my life. I like to eat. That costs money. I need to raise my (eventual) kids. That costs money. I generally just like spending money, because i usually get something good out of it. Admittedly, when i start paying bills and im throwing money away just for running water and electricity, i may feel differently. But i like having and spending money. But it is not the center of my world.

I wrote this instead of discussing God, because i thought God would be too big a topic and i wasnt in the mood. But the reality is, for some people, money is god. Which to me, is sad. There is more to life than how fat your wallet is.