Money Changes Everything

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Money Changes Everything

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Surely, I am the type who doesn't look at a person's financial status for him/her to be in my circle. I'll be proud to say that at the very least, my friend list can be written with some of the highest people in the society as well as some of the most deprived ones.

Just as I hate people who changes attitudes after experiencing success in life, financially.

I know a number of people who are exactly like that, them not letting a day pass without bragging their purchasing powers.

"Just bought an Audi Q5. My 4th car. Planning a trip to Bangkok to shop with friends. Can't believe things are getting cheap these days." This is a recent Facebook status update of a friend who lived with me in a dorm for college.

He used to be very shy with a down-to-earth attitude. He almost stopped schooling after he failed to maintain his scholarship, but through the help of friends and other connections, we were able to keep him studying. In effect, 16 of my classmates, including myself, paid for his schooling for almost a year. We had so much faith in his skills and abilities that he can become successful once he gets himself a degree.

And he did. He's very successful now, and I am really proud for his achievements. But with his success, it brought tons of changes in him as well.

When a classmate, one of the many who helped him finish college, had a hard time last year after a disaster struck the country, we asked him to help. He said he can't, because he has to attend to his own obligations for his family. It was reasonable, so we didn't argue.

But two days after that, we learned via his supposedly private Twitter account, that he got himself a new laptop, a Nintendo Wii and a new phone, after dining out with other friends in an expensive restaurant. Talk about selfishness and hypocrisy.

I'm not downplaying the importance of money. In our age, money speaks of tremendous power. Money these days is a must-have to survive. Virtually everything in this world has a monetary equivalent. And for people like the one person I talked of above, even their happiness has a price.

It's just too bad this world has allowed money to be god.

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