Tuesday, May 18, 2010

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Somehow, not even what should be a great event cannot be a real great one without something "sucky" to happen. Sunday, 16th May, night: rock night with AC/DC, a great night for Romanian rockers! The concert has really met the expectations and everybody could have stayed the whole night as long as there would have been beer and rock. At the end of the show though, as I was going on my way out of Piata Constitutiei along with the river of people, my wallet got stolen.
Of course, that's something usual in Bucharest. I could bet that everybody who moved into the big capital of Romania has had something stolen at a moment in time. But that's not the point here. I have written this down just to get to the bottom of the problem, which is: MONEY! Why was my wallet stolen? Because somebody needed the money. The beautiful, the excellent, the smelling, the rotten, the tainted MONEY! What do we need money for? In an era of consumption, we all need money firstly to live, to ensure ourselves a decent life, and after that, as means to acquire, to fulfill our wishes (a car, a book, an ice cream, each with it's own desire). The bad part is that we never stop wanting. We always want more! We always come up with more and more wishes, more desires, more needs which MUST be fulfilled. Even if we have achieved what we desired at a certain point of our lives, we will still want far beyond that last wish.
Hypothesis: X wants a house. Conclusion: X has to work hard to buy a house. Demonstration: X starts working 12 hours a day, involves himself in different projects that earn him visibility and more and more people can see how X is so devoted and works so hard for the good of the company. Of course, X is working only for himself, in order to get a raise, or to put aside some of the paycheck and to buy a damn house. And finally, after a lot of struggle and no social life anymore, X is able to convince the bank to give him a loan and yes, he buys a house. I wish I could say here Quod Erat Demonstrandum (Q.E.D.), but sadly, that's not the end of the story. No, because X will not stop here: once he has the house he wanted, X will want to make it the most beautiful house anybody ever had(= more Money), and after that, X will marry and will want a bigger house(= even more Money), and his wife will want the most beautiful house anybody ever had(= more, more, more Money), and so on and so on... So the hypothesis will multiply itself forever...
And...let's stop for a second at that moment when X is working really hard in order to get a raise or a promotion. From 9 'til 9, almost every day, working his ass off, crushing his brains in a desperate search for ideas for his project or whatever he's working on, trying to impress everybody with his devotion, dedication and hard and smart (H&S) work, X will expect to get promoted or a salary increase far sooner than he will actually get it. And when he finally will (in case he's not already fed up with the hard work, which, btw, he realizes it's in vain, and would want to change his job), the "flavor" of the received reward or recognition and the joy that it should bring will be almost bitter. Raise = due to the "economical crisis", it will be equivalent to almost NOTHING; Promotion = more responsibilities, NO MONEY, more work, NO MONEY, more headaches, NO MONEY, more extra hours, NO MONEY, more more more, NO MONEY!
Everything revolves around money and money revolve around everything...
How can we break the circle? Simply...wanting less...
Enjoy being free with less desires, less wishes, less MORE...

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