Indecent Proposals
Posted in Blog by: Lottie
Money can be a dangerous thing. Whether you have too much or not enough, the power it wields can dig such steep holes.
It never ceases to amaze me, the things people will do for money. How they will allow themselves to be bought, sold or compromised for a few silver coins. Letting their deeds and actions become marred by price tags. Their gestures of kindness tainted by expectation. More dangerous can be those who have it. Those who will forfeit actual relationships for those bought and paid for to fill their loneliness.
Instead of reaching with an outstretched hand for a friend, they reach out with an open palm be it empty or laced with gold.
We do the same with our time. Time, not as that physical measurement or duration but of attention and consideration. We measure, perhaps unintentionally, who and what is worth the passing of our hours. How it feeds our ambition or personal agenda.
We allow ourselves to be wrapped, labeled and tagged, walking amongst the people in our lives, trailing our “worth” around after us like a withering balloon.
Having said all that, I am glad it’s pay day.
March 27th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Hah! Love the last line of this post. I’m exactly the same – I’m all ‘oh money can’t buy you love’ and ‘who cares for material things’ until it’s five days til pay day and I’m smoking rollies and eating pasta and pesto until pay day. How fickle I am.
March 27th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
hmmm, makes me think. About money.
Job done.
March 28th, 2009 at 7:49 am
Yes, filthy lucre. But when you don’t have it, you think about nothing else.
March 28th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
There’s two types of fridge.
1. Post pay-day fridge which actually has the makings of three meals in it but you still go to the shops.
2. Pre pay-day fridge which is exactly the same one only this time you actually make those three meals.
March 30th, 2009 at 8:23 am
@Aoife – Welcome & thanks for dropping a comment. Yes, it’s all well and good saying that money isn’t the be all and end all but when you’re balance reads 0.00 is’t a different story.
@Maxi – Ta da!
@Profoundly Superficial – True.
@Holemaster – damn it that’s completely true.