See, I got your attention! This article has absolutely nothing to do with money!!! Although, as long as it has been mentioned…. I might as well make a few remarks by way of a few quotations overheard recently. “I need money …” said a three year old from the window of her mini-bus. “I… like money”, said a very short and ugly little girl, playing with a number of foreign coins near the gutter of her home. “I want ‘to be' money when I grow up.”, said a retarded 15 year old to his Pilipino house made. Money can cause the deepest of emotions for mankind. Private moments fall short… when compared to the feelings that are aroused by money matters. As a child, when a one riyal note is lost, it causes an enormous emotional trauma that can psychologically affect the middle ages of life. I think that it is of great importance and significance to be fully aware of the flexibility of the ‘place' of money through the centuries in human world evolvement. That is to say the money as such has varied in importance for mankind individually and collectively. Take today as an example (someone should); greed, insecurity and unhappiness all share in today's ‘love' for money. “I have a new mobile, but I don't feel comfortable because my very best friend has three mobiles and that makes me unhappy”, said a pre-teenager over his first Mobile. “I … still like money”, said a grandmother of 99. “I can relax even if I have fallen apart and there is no more hope for happiness in a world where you pay young people to kill other young people whom they've never met…” she said rocking her wheelchair frantically. “I want to decorate everything with money, feel secure although inside I am miserable…” said an old man from inside of his cardboard home on the pavement. And as I was saying, the topic of the article stresses… We are all born and we all die. Once I heard someone say that you can take it with you… but, that you cannot spend it… So many fleeting images flash through the mind and brain. The same as dreams disappear as soon as they appear… Money has no family, nor friends. That is to say that as soon as it is spent it is but a ‘memory'. Notes and coins are fragile and get old as people do on each and every day. Notes tear, coins become dirty and scar. The same as people, eh? And as I was saying in our article, an education can be free and yet parents and governments spend literally millions in putting a son or daughter through the best of educations in major institutions abroad. After all, it is the education received that will determine the success or failure of an individual in today's world. And it is women in the Middle East who are now making a big difference. Money becomes secondary to the goal of a solid education. Which comes first… the horse or the cart? The fire or the fire engine? The dentist or the toothache? __
