Writing Angel

When I was a kid, I never thought that I will have to earn my own money as my parents often give me whatever I ask from them and I don’t have to worry about money as they will give me $50 for a week. For kids, that would be more than enough but since I was born in a wealthy family, it seems small to me. As I grew older, I realized that my parents were getting very strict about money.

Every time I asked for money, they replied, “Get your own money, son. You are too old to depend on your folks.” I would protest, “You have given me everything since I was young and now you are going to cut off my expense? It is like cutting off my oxygen supply. I can die.” Seriously, at one point I thought I was going to die without money. After all I have been fed with all the money they can give me. I began to think of 10 things I wish they told me about money.

I wish they had told me that “earning money is difficult”. That would have stop me from lazing around the town spending every dime I had in every toy stores or fast food restaurants. If only they had told me that “money is very important”, I would have saved all my money in a piggy bank so that I can use it when I grew older.

If they had told me “to get money I must work”, I would have find a job to earn more money than loitering around doing nothing but wasting time. How I wish they had told me that “people will not give you money for nothing”, then I would have tried to sell off some of my own stuff to generate some income rather than throwing away most of my precious toys whenever I don’t like them.

If they had told me that “poor people cannot eat because they don’t have money”, then I would have give some of my share to my friends so they can afford to eat. I also wish they had told me about the “no money, no talk” syndrome, as it really affects me badly when I need to get to the college and I need to pay for my own college fees.

Somehow, I figured that if they had told me that “I need to pay to use the toilet”, then I would have saved all the coins I had rather than just leaving it all over the place and someone had took it. If money is so important, then I wish they had told me to “invest some money in the bank” so I get to collect some interest from the savings.

However, nothing is more important than telling me, “property is money”. Then I could have bought my own house rather than renting, which has taken a large sum of my money every month paying for a house that is not my own. The last thing I wish they had told me is, “there is no free lunch in this world.” Then, I would not give anyone a free lunch as I did in school, treating my friends to scrumptious feast and all.

How I wish they had told me earlier everything about money.