Money is mere a simple and understandable word for us, who live in this civilised society of Information Technology. It is a word that we use in every aspect of our life. Right from getting up in the morning to going to bed for sleep at night, we use this word and its assosiatives like anything.
But do we after spending many decades of our life on the Earth know “what is money ?”. Definitely, money is mere a word for us that has only five alphabets and we have never tried to analyse and research more about it.
If we ever tried to ask a student of middle class family that what is money then he would have told that money is wealth, money is passion, lifestyle,fulfillment of dreams and desires etc.
If the same question is put on a student of rich family then he would tell that money is status, money is reputation, money means an extra thing in life after life and many similar answers is expected from him.
But if the question “What is Money ?” is asked to a child who lives in a poor family that is below poverty line then his/her answer will surely be that “Money is Life”. Yes, for poor people, money means life. Meanings and basics of money have been told to all of us many times in our schools, colleges and other institutions but we never get the right and exact definition of money. We searched for great economists who could give us more advanced and purified definition of money but it is really a hard luck of not only our country but also of all those countries where still a large mass does not able to manage for their basic necessities of life and where we are still not identifying the people who can tell us what money is ?.
The true definition of money can be provided to us by those small children who have never seen the face of schools and may be not even know about them but have faced bitting winter nights without clothes, without food and scotching hot summers without fans. Those small children can give us our answer more accurately who have opened their eyes on footpath and who even don’t know what is their name but know what is hunger ?, what is food ?, and how difficult life is ?.
Yes, we have specialised in medicine, in science, in I.T., and in trade but still we can find small children being beggars on streets, crossings etc.
We open our eyes for the Mittal-Arcelor merger, for Walmart, for B.M.W. coming to Asian market, for billionaires but we have still kept our eyes closed for those old people who have to pull rickshaw in bitting cold without a blanket on their shoulder for a few bucks in order to get cheap medicines for their children or grand children. They can even better tell the value of money rather than economists of excellent wisdom.
Pranshu.
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