For the Love of Money - It can make you do bad things!
If you have ever watched the show, “Apprentice”, you are sure to have heard the catchy theme song entitled, “For the love of money”. If you have actually read the lyrics to that song, there is a lot of truth in those words, for the love of money. That show is all about a personal means to an end. They are all using their talents for the love of money.
Throughout history, people have always used that phrase, for the love of money. Time and time again, that phrase is used in many ways for people on the way to achieving their success. For the love of money is often used in the business world as a way to get ahead. Others have used that phrase as a way to justify things they do in financial world to make a dollar.
In most cases, people often destroy themselves all for the love of money. In most cultures, the buck is the root to all evil and a lot peoples God. The number one reason for divorce in the United States is the dollar. This should be waking people up. Marriage is the most sacred of all institutions and people’s greed for the love of money is ruining marriages today. It destroys marriages due to lack of funds or because one or both parties are obsessed with making it and forget what is important and do nothing but concentrate on their career and forget about home. If it is because there is a lack of funds, bills become the number one concern and people begin to forget about the big picture - each other.
If you read the lyrics to the song, “For the love of money” some of the words are scary. “People will steal from their mother, people will rob their own brother, people can’t even walk the street”, these words should be a free wake up call to all of us that our society is in search of the wrong thing. Remember the saying, “The best things in life are free”? This is definitely not a saying for those that believe in the almighty dollar.
News on the TV is consistently talking for the love of money in all that is shown. Commercials for us to spend more, infomercials to make us want more, it’s a vicious circle.
What should be important in our lives is friends and family. Sure, a service job is important, but what should be at the top of our list is happiness! And finding that happiness will most certainly not come from chasing the dollar!