by Sandeep Poudel (072BCE135)
Are we insanely moving from insanity to sanity?
Money is a verifiable record or means of exchange that we own and by which we can own equivalent assets in exchange. At this stage of human evolution, everything circles around money. Everything we see is either related to money or derived from money. But things weren’t always the same; we made them so.
Mostly, people live their life hustling, struggling to progress towards their goals, knowingly or unknowingly just for the paper we put value on. Some people choose to accept it, some choose not to and some simply don’t care. If you don’t accept it, the vicious circle of sanity & insanity will drag you and will make you accept it or make you not care. Well if you already accept it or if you don’t care, you never get to ride on the circle.
Looking back into the past, objects were first used as money at around 5,000 B.C. Thus, the desire for money was unheard of long ago. But what urged mankind to introduce ‘money’? What I believe is, money was introduced to instill sanity in people, to introduce change, development and for a better livelihood. Or it was because people needed reason/reward to work for others, they needed reason/reward to foresee unity. They needed something to own, something to call ‘mine’ in order to work, in order to foresee, and in order to thrive. That desire of ‘mine’ introduced money. The desire of ‘mine’ was insanity and the invention of money brought sanity. Or is it just the opposite? Think again! But don’t get inside the vicious circle. Whether it be stone, beads, gems, silver, gold, peppercorns, wheat, barley or cows, we always needed something. And believe me, money is just a better, handy and sophisticated version of them all. Thereafter, with some hardships, people could get something to call ‘mine’. That very desire kindled the fire to foresee and toted everything up to this point of human evolution. Now, history doesn’t matter. We don’t want to know the insanity and sanity of money. We simply don’t care. Why should we after all? Strange is; the same money which we introduced at some point of time, now introduces us.
Paper had no value. We gave it value and called it ‘money’. We made money vicious and now our sanity and insanity circle around it. Sanity makes it vicious and insanity uses it viciously. As of now, everything pivots around money. Nonetheless, everything is going just fine. All that remain are a few questions; how much have we evolved if we still seek the reward, if we still seek something to call ‘mine’, if money still binds our insanity? Is money vicious or are we?
Sandeep Poudel
072BCE135
(Pulchowk Campus)
