The King We Didn't Ask For

Money. Will your money cheer you up when you’re sad? Will it be there to talk to when you’re feeling alone? Will it comfort you when you’re scared? As we go through life working to live, working to provide for our family I can’t help but ask myself why do we pay to LIVE? Am I the only one who questions this? I can’t be the only one. We pay to live. We pay for food. We pay for this and that. We pay for everything. I just can’t help but question why we must pay someone else in order to live our lives. With our capitalistic society it seems like we pay for pretty much everything in order to survive. We’re addicted to money. It seems like we have a dependence on currency. So let me ask you, is money King? Are we all subjects to an unworthy King? Let that sink in. I understand that the concept of currency was established to create organization and that’s exactly what it’s done; we’ve organized ourselves. We’ve created class systems and we criticize the poor because they don’t have money, but we also criticize the rich because they have too much money. We’re dividing ourselves. Why divide ourselves? “United we STAND, divided we FALL.” It’s the truth. We go everyday thinking about money. It’s always money this, or money that.” If we spent as much time focusing on family and friends as we do money maybe we wouldn’t be as divided. Why do we always have to do things that are socially acceptable? I’m not claiming to be the smartest person on the planet by any means, but I know one thing for certain and that’s if we elect to direct most of our attention to our family and friends instead of money, and let personal happiness surpass the importance of money, along with putting the happiness of our family and friends over the importance of having money, we’d break our dependence from currency and we can force the King to relinquish his thrown.