adminMorris Mpala, MoB Capital Ltd
FORGET everything you have been taught about money whether in school or on the streets. Money talks so many languages including my not so known Nambya. Everything and everyone is obedient to money. Lack of it has been the root of all evil since the beginning of mankind. Please don’t be told that the love of it is the problem. Money is good and very good if in the right hands but in the wrong hands it could be the source of miserable, agonising emotional financial rollercoaster.
Love money as only when you love something can you attain it in abundance. Money is not the one thing, it is the only thing. So it’s all about money nothing else but money. Funny what people do for money? Funny what the lack of it can lead to. Money can buy you houses, freedom, money again, happiness, it can buy you love. Some people say problems of having too much money are better than those of not having money.
If you haven’t had money then you wouldn’t know what you’re talking about. Everyone aspires to have money and enough of it regardless of background and position in society.
Money is always wanted and no one gets sick of wanting money, how strange.
Why is that all lottery winners eventually die paupers after having squandered their fast gotten riches? Is it what the Bible termed a fool and his riches? Is there a school for money handling or how best to handle money directories?
Dial a money handling directory so that when one stumbles on money they can be given quick guides to handling cash.
What is it about money that attracts both genuine and fake friends at the same time? Friends are plenty when there is money, few when these dollars are few.
Everyone obeys money regardless of background. Those that worship it have caused harm to people that have money.
The value of money seems to be very subjective, a dollar’s worth depends on each individual. Depending on your net worth what some call money could be your peanuts but it doesn’t change the value associated with money as long as it’s your money.
When in ill health or legal challenges you value your dollars. Some say when you get wealth you lose your health. Thank God Zimbabwe is not as litigious as the Yankees otherwise it will be a money driven circus.
Those below millionaires buy clothes and little gadgets. Millionaires buy cars, houses. The super rich buy real estate and aeroplanes but billionaires buy yachts and islands or simply donate their monies. Once you are in the same league you buy the same items, the difference will only be in the personalisation of the items bought.
Money has been given lots of names. In church we call it offering. At a wedding we call it lobola. When you owe someone it’s a loan. When they owe you it’s an investment. When we pay the government, it’s called taxes.
In court we say its maintenance. When the government pays old people it’s pension, boss to workers those are salaries.
On “toll gates” we call it bribes. What of the living expenses between boyfriend and girlfriend? This has made money famous and popular.
How do people get so much money in their hands? People are hard workers, cunning, cocky, super intelligent, lucky, inheritance and criminals to achieve the certified money status. Either way you have to work for it.
At times money has always been mistaken for sense as in those with more money are believed to talk sense as compared to those with little.
Poor and rich have different status in society. Some argue poor is peaceful but I think it’s subjective. Money opens doors that ordinarily you wouldn’t without it. Money is power
So, money really talks, because you have been listening all the way. You tend to get invites to all cool places. As far as the law is concerned you are at your own level. The rules are relaxed or are applied harshly.
You tend to buy at lower costs, you have more opportunities, a lot of freebies come your way, and the chances of making more money when you have money are high. Opportunities come to you. The downside is that you have the headaches of trying to make more or preserve value to your money.
It can be hectic exercise but once you get it right it becomes infectious you want to continue playing with money to make more money and you always want to talk about it. Or you can use your money to get people that will make sure you make more! Isn’t that beautiful and sexy?
The art of doing it and getting reward is the one that makes other people do it for themselves even though they involve necessary expertise in the field of interest.
Worldwide we have accepted that money is money otherwise it would not be money.
It is a measure of value or a store of value. We all agreed money is money regardless of origin, faith, colour of your skin, on any coordinates on the planet.
Money is perception
Money is so enigmatic that even some people call themselves money. Is that wishful thinking? There is that mystery to money that makes you want it, be it, be associated with it, talk about, fantasise about it, dream about, want to have it but the how part is the most challenging one.
What money can do is so amazing and what it can do to you as well be it your ego, status and your attitude still builds into that dark mystery about money.
Have you seen how money changes characters of people and yet no-one wants to learn from such precedent behaviour of the downside of not knowing how to handle money.
The intrigue on money is just unbelievable. Then one wonders what money is really? Is it a thought, a principle, a thing called money, store of value, a measure of value, does it really talk, is it bad or good , is it the all, is having money a success or it is simply money which is money in so a many ways? Is money wealth or money creates wealth?
To be wealthy you have to have money so money equals wealth but why do some people argue and say it’s not wealth. Can you be wealthy without money? For now simply put let’s agree money is wealth.
But why money and not something else? Money is more fun than probably mangoes/oranges/grass/tokens. It just brings excitement. Imagine trying barter trade it would not be as exciting.
As for someone that grew up in areas where how rich you were was measured by the number of mango trees in your yard I don’t tend to be easily impressed with money as in money but value terms.
Simple life with money is more fun
Money talks for real so I will be damned to be found without it. For now a man’s got to do what a man’s got to do to love it and have it. And if I do get it you will definitely know because money has got a funny way of manifesting itself when it finds a home in some people, most people anyway.
There is something much sexier about money, it is spending money which is not yours. There is that something that you can’t really explain about money, you don’t need to be told you can feel it because of its appeal.
Have a money filled week ahead …
Morris Mpala is managing director of MoB Capital (Pvt) Limited, a microfinance institution offering loans, micro-insurance and advisory services to small to medium enterprises as well as individuals.
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