Dolla Billz Y'all

"The best things in life are free,
But you can give them to the birds and bees,
I want MONEY!
That's what I want. "

Well, not really. To say that money is the root of all evil would be a huge overstatement because it does us some good. I can pinpoint at least 10 glaringly evident disadvantageous to not having the concept of money in our vocabulary:

1. I wouldn't be able to quote songs like the one above because there would be no insipiration for them.
2. We wouldn't have a source from which to replicate monopoly money and so stuffing those money-holder cards with fake dollars would be a lot less funny.
3. My obsession with manipulating dollar bills into oragami cranes would have to be replaced by an obsession with manipulating the bills of oragami cranes into doll hairs.
4. We couldn't tie money onto the ends of strings and laugh when people try and reach for them while we pull them away.
5. Terms like "put your money where your mouth is" would have to be replaced with "put your lemon-cursted salmon where your mouth is" because food (lemon crusted salmon specifically) would replace money making this adage significantly less funny because lemon crusted salmon does, in fact, belong in the mouth.
6. honey, bunny, funny, punny, runny, and sunny would be down a rhyme.

Isn't it funny how the more we worry about having money, the less money we have? This is because the very thought that we need money automatically creates need. We think need into being. I never worry about money and I never seem to have it, but when I need it it alsways seems to be there. Like this week, for instance. I was done to my last dollar, literally. That very same day my Dad emailed me and put a few bucks into my account. I guess I'm lucky becasue I get to commute for free which saves me a shitload of money, but still, I never seem to want it, desire it, or think too often about it and I always seem to have enough to get by, to eat, and to donate a few bucks to Yoga to the People and church. Not that I WANT to live meagerly forever, I just don't see a problem with it right now and I don't sacrifice what I love to do or worry about the monetary fortunes that I will or will not fall into in the future.

Lets talk about Tom (my mentally challenged Uncle) for a minute. Tom works at Almost Family presumably putting caps on bottles. He gets a paychek every few weeks for about 5 dollars. This excites him beyond measure. He is completely content with whatever he receives and we (family) always make a big deal out of it proclaiming things like "WOW TOM!!! FIVE DOLLARS?! NO WAY!!!" He also has a bowl of pennies that he counts every night. This act might seem to peg him as frugile, but it is really indicative of the fact that he values the little things in life. He is the essence of "being." We got him a Popeye shirt last Christmas that said "I Yam What I Yam." This describes him perfectly.

Anyway, there is a lot of good that can come of money, but people abuse it.
Combatting this obsession with money is easy; choose gratification over supplication.


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