Money is essential that brings for man all his necessities and luxuries for his comfortable existence. Life without money is undoubtedly a virtual hell, with pangs of hunger and thirst eating into man’s very bones. However, at the same time for man to think that money is everything, is also a great mistake. Money is a necessity only is as much as, it is the thing which buys for us all need, but, beyond that, money is a harbinger of all sorts of vices. Let us remember that money is to be considered as a means to an end, and not an end in itself. The end is a comfortable life, and the means is money.
If we consider money as means to our end of having comfortable life then, we would be seeing money in its proper perspective for without money we cannot live as, we are not able to buy anything if we do not have money. So much, so good but, in the present day scenario, money is no more a means to an end but, an end itself. To collect money, to hoard money and become richer and richer has become our sole aim in life. It is here in outlook towards money that we have erred, and so the disastrous situation we are placed in, is not hidden from anyone. Each individual has a set goal of hoarding money and money only, and this also is not fixed to a certain amount. We just have to go on and on irrespective of life. It is a wild goose chase that we are all indulging in, and that, at the cost of all the rest we had.
After having a bird’s eye view of the present scenario are we still in a position to say that money is all we need? Yes, money is all important but, only to a limit. Once the limit of satisfaction is crossed, it converts man into a mere animal, a brute and a devil. It is this excess of money that leads man to all sorts of crimes. We should realize that money is not all that we need for happiness. In spite of so much progress and prosperity why is their ill will, degradation and unhappiness? It is because we are laying too much stress on money and only money.
Vocabulary
Harbinger—arrival
Disastrous—gloomy