No Money No Honey

If you are from above than a middle class family, or are capable enough or have faith in your capability, you tend to take money for granted. Money is more than a thing used to buy things, as anyone who had gone through a tough time would know. Money is a language. It's used for social communication. Imagine if you didn't have money growing up. You wouldn't have access to the education you had, the books and pop culture that ultimately defined your hobbies and interests. I say I like reading comics, I wouldn't have said that if growing up, my family didn't have the means to buy me books and comic books, and it would have defined my interests in a totally different manner, though I'm sure, of course not completely, that I would have been writing and reading even if I was a little literate. Money doesn't define intelligence, but it provides you the means to become more intelligent, of course the definition of intelligence differs according to situations. Money helps you in non-verbal communication, like when you go for a meeting and you keep the brand new expensive phone on the table, or you go to an event and step out from a luxury car. I have seen severe illness in my college time, and it is when I became a minimalist, it was not a choice, the health was so bad that I had to make things easily manageable. So, it's then I became what I used to call a "one bag man", and became capable of living out of a bag. Of course this doesn't apply once one gets married, women are expansive in nature, and they have to be, as it's them who make a house a home. I still am a one bag man though, I collect books but most of my books except the ones of academic and professional nature are either on my computer or online. I prefer a small car, and I prefer an inexpensive phone with only two essential functionalities, that it allows me to write and has a long battery life, and one more, yes one more, a map. The talk is about money though and you can't have enough of it, because security is a thing and that's why people invest. One needs money for health, and for tough times which in fact most of the times are related to health. Health is in fact wealth. It's very late in my life that I realised that a big part of what I'm at least intellectually, I owe to money. Without money I wouldn't have access to education, both school and college, books, cable television, the internet. That made me think about the kind of man I would have been if I did not have access to these things. I would still have access to the culture, which in the time I grew up in, the 90s, was arguably, depending on your childhood memories, traumatic or not, was great. The kids of today do not have such luxury in the present culture which mostly consists of sex and exploitation. The system has evolved, and surpassed giving basic dignity of life to people. The system we live in presently, functions on giving people imposter syndrome and then exploiting it. The individuals above the glass ceiling indiscriminately prune or skim and discard the families or individuals who are upwardly mobile in class or finances. Everyone is selected, and we can't know since how long this practice has been there. Don't let their marksheets and degree certificates fool you. Every single person in a position of power or fame is exactly where he needs to be and if he is below the glass ceiling he needs to suffer his fame or success too. I realised that I'm not my knowledge or my interest in pop culture. I'm just an individual entity, who loves the people who he loves and who would ultimately need money to protect them.