What Is The One Thing We All Love, But Can't Stand?

What is the one thing we all love and desire to have but despise it the instant we get it?

If you said money people, you would be correct.

Everyone has their woes about money, this is not a new issue. Everyone who has every has to pay bills with their hard earned cash from their job that they resent going to can definitely agree with me when I say that the main cause off all my stress it the greenbacks!

With more money becomes more responsibility. Keep that in mind. The same can be said about age as well. When you start your first job, either it being in High School or afterwards, you always want something that will cost you. Typically, it is always the "Cell Phone". With the phone comes the dreaded bill. Next thing you know, you $200 check for those few hours your worked over the last 2 weeks has now dwindled down to have $50 left. But that's not it. Flash 2 years down the road, better job, more money, wow I got a car now. You think you are untouchable. Except when after cell phone is paid and insurance and gas for the car have been taken out of your income and your left flat broke. Now your the kid with the cool car and the celly and no money to do anything in that new, sweet car.

I could on about that all day and just mention more of my personal experiences, but that could go on for awhile.

Instead I would like to shift the focus and try to put myself in a better mood, because the way I am feeling now about money makes me want to punch 132 holes in the walls here at work. But like I said, lets move on.

What happened to the care free days where money wasn't an object and only heard your parents bitching about. The times when you got a quarter or a dollar and thought you were set. Then you spent that money on Candy or a dollar store toy and didn't care that it was gone. Even when that cheap ass toy broke into 15 pieces in the first hours of play time, you didn't care. You were a little kid and did not have the pressures as you do now.

I miss those care free days. As cool as it feels now to be able to splurge $100 here and there, it would be a lot better to have the best of both worlds. Like maybe free money. Or even better, incentives! Like we could reform the government to make it that we all get free money to do whatever we want with on a monthly basis. It could be called the "Splurge Stimulus". Each person who is employed will get $200, no matter what the rank of jobs are. People who are unemployed will get $100. Sounds fair enough.

I know most of you are going, "Wow this guy is talking out of his ass right now". Guess what? I am. I just wanted to show you the prime example that is wrong with our country right now. You have almost everybody in this country, not to knock it or anything, because I love America, but almost everybody is living their life for money and is driven by money and their common goal is, you got it, MONEY!

But again this is something that we cannot control. Money is the root of all evil and there will never be enough. It is just our human nature to let money run us. That's just how it is in today's society. Who has the better close, faster cars, and the newer toys.

I just want to share a quick experience with you before I wrap it up today.

I was watching MTV this morning and "True Life" was on. The episode was titled, I believe, but don't quote me, "I am moving to America". This was a great episode. The main person in the show was a 21 year old boy from Botswana who had to immigrate to a refugee camp in Thailand. Him, his mom, his dad, and his 4 other siblings shared a little hut that was the size of the average living room. They slept on floors and were naturally cramped. Well to speed it up a bit, they boy found a program through some US government organization that moved his family to America and put them up in an apartment and got them started with jobs.

The 21 year old boy, Timothy, was aspiring to go to an American college and hope hopes and dreams. But was hit hard when he was told that he would have to get a job and support his family. He did not know 100% positive on what this meant. So his instructor, through the organization, sat down with him and his dad to balance out monthly bills. Their bills were totaling up to be $2,500 or something close to that. Timothy got a job slaving at a pickle factory but still aspired to go to school. But no funds were available to do so.

But that cool that he got him and his family over here. But this is the part where you can relate this story to my blog. Timothy was quoted saying after working for a month, that he was regretting coming to America.

This just goes to show you that again, Money is the route of all evil. This kid came to the States with a dream, and he was focused, but when the harsh reality of American living kicked him in the face, he wished that he could go back to his refugee camp, where he was told what to do, made to sleep on the dirt covered floors with 7 total people in a hut the size of our living rooms. Now if someone who has came from nothing, I mean nothing, cannot even come over here and deal with the simple stress of money and make best with what they have, what makes us do it without fleeing or blowing our brains out?

I would like to thank you for reading this because it did calm me down a lot to be able get this off my chest. So I will leave you like I always do, with the following quote. A simple lyric that no one probably hears in the song, but I do. Its from, "The Verve", "Bittersweet Symphony" written by lead singer, Richard Ashcroft.

~Cause it's a bittersweet symphony, this life. Try to make ends meet, You're a slave to money then you die~