by Don Kwikshot

Created on: June 17, 2008

As those of us who have waded through the many articles written on this subject will readily attest: each one of us has different goals; thus to some, money is the be-all and end-all, to others fame cannot be lived without; to most people, I believe that love is the winner.

I read with pity an article written on this subject by one of our writers where he averred that money was far more important, more satisfying, and more worthwhile than anything else. The person who can believe this has an impoverished soul, indeed. Money for money's sake is totally worthless. It devalues, disappears, gets stolen, is diminished monthly by enormous bank charges, is generally fickle, and, in the end, becomes the possessor not the possessed.

Of course money is important to us in this modern age. It keeps us alive, takes us shopping, pays the electricity and the phone bill, the rent or the mortgage, the domestics, buys the petrol, makes the car payments, and often makes us feel good about ourselves. It relieves stress (for a short time) and allows us to wallow in the luxuries which our neighbours unfortunately covet. Too much of it makes targets of all of us because there is always someone waiting to take it away, and it is so easy to take! The more you have, the more you can lose; the more you make, the more taxes you are asked to pay; the more money buys in terms of furnishings, cars, and other luxuries, the more you become a target for the envy of those less fortunate - and even, sometimes, those more fortunate who simply cannot abide the thought that you have it.

Money is the basis we have invented in order to save ourselves the trouble of having to raise crops or cattle, or produce things ourselves which we would then have to take to market on a regular basis in order to acquire the things we need which others may produce. Instead of a herd of cows in the back yard, we have money in the bank. When we work we are paid in money, and everything in our lives in one way or another comes back to money and what we do with it and how much of it we have. However, he who believes that a surfeit of this commodity is important is a sorry being indeed and should never forget that we cannot take our money with us into the next world when we go.

Fame is fleeting. I forget who first said this, but it is very true. Fame is totally subjective and depends to a large extent on how good our publicist or agent is, how much air-time our songs are given, how many successful films we can make in a year,

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