Dear Money

What has been the toughest question you’ve come across in your life? 

The most uncomfortable and unfounded question to which, I’m at the answering end is, “What do u want do?”, “what are your plans for the FUTURE?”, “Where do u see yourself 10 years from Now?” and the Likes of such…. Which makes human life compulsorily planned and banal...

I need to applaud, all those who’ve got an answer to this Question. About 90% of the answers to this question will be to pursue a good education (good=high scores or highly ranked by others) that will lead to an ample (ample is amplified 100 times over), and get “settled” (wanderers were u, before???), and MARRY the one you ‘love’, or 4 the unlucky “1’s” (singles) like me... just get MARRIED for the “Heck” of it.. I’m Sorry, not for the “Heck” of it but have a well-planned life, not just for yourself but also for your children, in (some cases for the over-ambitious, more intelligent and “well-organized” plan for their grand-children as well, planning just does not stay there, the well planned life settles in the posh, centrally air-conditioned lockers of the banks).

I’m not saying that one must not hope or plan for tomorrow but don’t lose your distinctiveness, the persona that make u so special, merely to amass affluence for the generations to come, and call it as hard-work, well planned and success. One can be called a Successful person only if he has done some good for himself and others, and enjoys every split second doing it. All the answers to the above questions are just for the heck of it, or may be to demonstrate your worth to somebody else.

I can sense hostility and defiance towards my school of thought, creeping or already crept into your mind, u may possibly be lured to believe that I’m a sluggish goof, scared to dream and toil for tomorrow, trying to take asylum in the phony sense of free will and autonomy. Yes I’m scared, but not to dream or to work for it, but I’m scared that I’ll have to call my ‘whims, fancies, desires and lusts’ as dreams. I’m scared of losing my ‘today’, in trying to secure the ‘tomorrows’, because:

I fear that, My dreams,

Conceived with the purity of milk,

Nurtured with the sweetness of Honey,

And tendered by the softness of Silk;

Will be forcibly married off to Money.

The thing that amuses me most is Why do we have to compel ourselves to live a seemingly “Well Planned” Life, and crib on the slightest deviations from it. Isn’t life much more fun and simpler if we can take things as they come and lead a rather much more rewarding life?? Why do we have to take the trouble of planning for the next generation, and rub it on to them forcibly? Plan and dream for yourself, it is really difficult if take the money out of the dream and then try to dream and plan for your future... don’t defile your dreams with the sins of money.