Got Money ?

I am always curious and fascinated by people with money. I am not talking about people with simple gainful employment in which they earn a modest salary with a somewhat copious amount of vacation pay and some undistinguishable formulation of a 401k, picturesque yet humble abode that houses 2.5 children and a chocolate lab. I am talking Money. Serious, “move out of the way of my completely gratuitous, leather clad, gasoline-swilling Escalade, I am so late for my Mani -Pedi, Money”. Oh, you know exactly what I am referring to. You can hear them coming and inwardly recoil as you get behind them in line at Starbucks because there will most assuredly be some sort of verbal assault on the completely unsuspecting barista smiling gleefully behind the counter. What makes people different? Does it matter how much you have? I mean really. Happiness, as it turns out, cannot be measured in dollars, I have tried. I bet you have too. Money as it seems, is something that seems to be grossly misconstrued as having the ability to satiate the internal voracity of the heart. So often, we place money and things before the people that we leverage unimaginable strength from. We plunge headlong into the quest for attainability and wealth when the peace that we long so desperately for is only precluded by our indifference and disregard for those closest to us. So what is one to do? Are we all destined to be money-grubbing nickel pinchers without conscience or direction? I think that life is solely what you make it. Money or no money, we can sustain peace and love in a society of buy now pay later. Start a coin collection. You know that impossible assemblage of copper and silver coin that gravitates toward any unoccupied spot in the bottom of a purse or vehicle floorboard. Gather if you will, that small change and save it. You are certainly not using it. Once you see it collecting rather meekly in the jar on the counter you may, with some serendipity, see that not only do you not need it, but perhaps it would be better served helping someone else. And who cares if you never get that Escalade, I bet you have the most placid, undisturbed sleep that you absolutely cannot obtain with a few more dinero in your wallet. Live now, today, do not waste these precious moments chasing things, because your peace and your wallet are mutually exclusive.