| I have heard it said so many times, "that if you | | | | ourselves and say that great wealth is not what we |
| make a nice garden, everyone else in the street will | | | | want? |
| try to have a nice garden too". Everyone else isn't | | | | What is wrong with voicing the fact that I, as a |
| like the person who says that, and they should not | | | | person, do not want or expect great wealth? Why |
| assume that this is so. People can admire things | | | | can't wealth be considered as a tool, a commodity to |
| without lusting after them. | | | | be shared around, and those who do the most |
| As far as the gardening goes, not everyone else | | | | sharing, willingly, be accorded the same or more |
| enjoys gardening anyway. We are just using gardens | | | | respect than that paid to those few who have great |
| as an example here but it also applies equally well to | | | | wealth today and abuse the respect given to them |
| those who hunger after money and great wealth. | | | | by any number of sycophants? |
| To assume that everyone's greatest desire in life is | | | | Personally, I would hate to have people like me or |
| to be wealthy is a fallacy. This fallacy and wrongful | | | | pay me respect simply because I had a few extra |
| assumption is partly what has led us all 'down the | | | | noughts on a piece of paper with my name on it. I |
| garden path' and into this global financial crises. The | | | | know I'm worth more than that. |
| whole world does not lust after money. | | | | I am happiest when I have enough to eat, a roof |
| Money is a tool; nothing more, nothing less. | | | | over my head, enough clothes in my wardrobe for |
| Everyone needs money the same as a person needs | | | | the seasons, and can pay my bills. This allows me to |
| keys to get through a locked door; but that doesn't | | | | spend time thinking about other aspects of life. |
| mean that one lusts after it. Money is the key to a | | | | Thinking is one thing that no one can take away |
| very comfortable life. A life without money troubles, | | | | from you. Well, not yet anyway, but over the |
| creditors phoning you up every month, Holidays | | | | centuries, many dictatorships and other political bodies |
| vacations at the drop of a hat without saving money | | | | have tried. The closest these people have got to it |
| for months to have one. | | | | so far, is in the world we live in today |
| Or perhaps you lust after a garage full of antique | | | | My Grandmother's favourite saying was "there are |
| cars and the latest vehicles. Money gives one all | | | | many ways to skin a cat". She never had anything |
| those things, but how many houses can you live in? | | | | against cats, but the visualisation for us cat-loving |
| How many cars can you actually drive at the same | | | | kids drove her point home. |
| time? How much food can you actually eat? When | | | | Today's cheap TV programming that the station |
| does money lust finally get called greed? Or is that a | | | | owners put on free-to-air TV for the masses; is the |
| five letter, foul word in today's money hungry | | | | closest thing I know about for dumbing down a |
| environment? | | | | population and stopping people from actually thinking. |
| It is just too obvious to mention the people dying of | | | | If you aren't a bit choosy about what you chose to |
| starvation around the world. I'm sure some of you | | | | spend your time watching, you can be lulled into a |
| know the story of the Dog in the Manger. If not, | | | | brain-dead, lustful and lazy zombie. |
| write to me and I'll tell you all about the miserable cur. | | | | Reality shows are some of the cheapest TV |
| When so many people around the western world are | | | | programming available today and they appeal to |
| in dire financial straits due to Wall street and other | | | | people's voyeurism. This tends to take the place of |
| multinational corporations greed, when are we, the | | | | life for some people and gives them an excuse for |
| people, going to get the courage to stand up for | | | | not living their own reality. |