Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Assertion- I Believe People Do Not Need Money to Be Happy
I very much agree with this essay by Robert from Philadelphia. In this case actually money prevented them from being happy. Without his father losing his job they would have never become close as a family. I believe that this essay sheds light on what money and its values actually dose to us as people. Money divides us, leaves us out, makes us poor when we are not. I say that so that people know that just because your poor your actually not, you can be rich in friendship, family, and fortitude. Money also distracts and destroys our imagination. Who wants to invent something when you could just buy it. The worst thing that money can do is make us compare one another. 'I have more so I'm worth more' in reality this person is worth less because of how they view the world.
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I would agree as well, because money is a source of divisions of families. It isnt THE reason, but it plays its part in keeping families farther apart. For example, a large portion of this country is in debt or is having major finnacial issues. Money has taken over the lives of most of those families in the acquiring of more material objects. The acquiring of "stuff" or "things" is what has become apart of our culture, in that if you have more you are more successful and if you are more successful then you have a lot of money. With money, if you have a lot of it, you would pay more attention to that material object then the living person, or people, who live with you are unable to connect with you and eventually drift away from you. When wealth enters a family, it has the power to destroy them if, and only if, the family trusts each other and if they have a strong bond with each other as well. When I was little, my family was having the worst of luck with money. Whenever we would get money, it would all go out to payments and very little to any food. My parents lost their jobs, to start, then the interest for the payments, for the car, house, utilites, etc, began to go up and we had to sell our car and most of our appliances. Without our stuff, that we worked so hard for the money to buy all of our stuff, was gone in an instant. Nothing, but because of that time in my life, I have grown such a large bond with my parents and with my sibilings. I, or my family, may not show cooperation all of the time, my family and I are very united and we all get along with each other quite well. We have been through an experience that has sewn us together, like that of a quilt. A quilt has various patterns, and a lot of them are different in a large or small sense, but the stichings, the representation of our bond, is strong and tight. Because of the misfortunes in the world, some of the best families in the world are those of the poorer regions. Those there depend on the rest of the family in supplying for the whole for that day. Money, as destructive and as powerful as it is, when taken out of the picture can bring together a family and make the relations between the household much stronger.
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