Money

Money

Money, money

everybody's gotta use some

everybody's gotta gotta get some.

After it's gone, you gotta gotta

get some more.

It acts a lot like a drug,

get a little at first,

and you're happy for awhile

until you discover you want a lot more.

The more you get,

the more you tend to want

The more you get

the more you tend to use.

When you run out, you go into withdraw

and get all worried and crabby

until you figure out how to get some more.

Money, money,

has its good side, it's true.

It provides incentive for great numbers of people

to work together to make all sorts of things

and as the world grows closer together economically

the harder it is for countries

to be fighting with each other.

Most of the really powerful nations have so many

of their fingers in each others money pie,

they really can't afford

to go to war with each other anymore.

The trouble is that

at the basis of money's incentive, is greed,

and greed is irrational

and often drives people to shit on each other

in their scramble to get as much as they can.

I've seen money drive a wedge

between sisters and brothers,

between a father and his daughters

and more than once, I've seen it tear

whole families apart.

Personally, virtually all the times

I've been truly done wrong in this life,

money was the driving force.

Money, money you gotta to get a clue about it.

It's best to have an easy come, easy go

attitude about it.

You gotta not get all caught up

in the debt racket or you'll find yourself

working as an indentured servant

to the bank for the rest of your life.

When comes the time to make a decision

about money, you gotta learn to ask yourself,

'Am I making this decision in favor of people

or in favor of money' because the defense

against greed boils down to the decisions

you make when money is at hand.

In my experience, most of the people

who can keep their heads when it comes

to money, have all been poor in dollars

and rich in heart.

Money, money, the catch is that

the more you tend to get, the more of your time

it takes up and the more you tend to want to spend.

A lot of people think getting a big load of money

would solves all their problems

but having money is its own line to tow

and having a big bunch can multiply your troubles.

Don't fall for the idea that having more money

makes you a better person.

The ideal situation about it

is to have so little, or so much money,

it really doesn't matter anymore.

If you get a bunch,, the trick is to

not fall into the trap of spending more and more

until you're all out of it again.

To have a bunch only means

that you have more than you care to spend.

I've known people who only had a little pile,

but because they didn't care

to buy a lot of things, they had enough

that it didn't matter anymore.

The poorest people I've ever known

all had great big piles of money,

but only tiny amounts of love and fulfillment

because they had turned away from their own

heart and soul in name of money.

Dewey Dirks