Euripides once said “Money is the wise man’s religion”. And that is probably the driving force for putting in endless hours into our non-motivating, essentially boring and monotonous jobs. What if you did not have to work for money? What if there were sufficient funds so that you did not have to think twice before mindlessly spending it? What would you do then? Believe it or not, it just baffled me to imagine myself in this situation. There are probably a million things I want to do everyday instead of waking up each morning and dragging my sorry ass to work. But I still could not think of what I would do with the hypothetical endless amounts of money.
The more I thought about this situation, the more confused I got…even though the answer is simple- own a beautiful mansion, purchase a (maybe more) sleek and sexy sports car, wine and dine at the finest restaurants, oh…how can I forget all the shopping and above all travel across the globe. Now, in this laundry list of ‘to dos with tones of cash’ the only thing that appeals to me is the sports car and travel. This is bizarre…I somehow lack the art of spending money…even hypothetically!! I probably have to kill some more brain cells to figure this one out.
After carefully considering all the pros and cons…countless days and weeks of sleeping in late, no stressing about work, simple plain boredom of doing nothing, I would like to settle down in a remote, underdeveloped part of the world and set up a small teaching center. Far away from being prim and proper all the time, far away from being politically correct and far away from the ‘getting complicated everyday technology’. One does not really need a whole lot of money to do the philanthropic things. I guess it is psychosomatic; it is the idea of not having to work for something in return that gives the sense of liberation. It just might be true…money can buy everything, even the sense of freedom.

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