‘Money doesn’t grow on trees’. So parents tell their children when they ask for a new toy or video game. Who has value for money these days? The same parents that use this phrase on their children go on a nice, luxurious holiday for their anniversary.
Children don’t know the value of money. They get everything free and easy. If they have a nice, functional water bottle which they take to school every day, and one fine day it goes missing, their parents will just buy them a new one.
The truth is, even the parents don’t have value for the money they earn. ‘Can I just buy a chewing gum? It’s only for one rupee’, says the child. ‘Ok, it’s just a rupee’, says the parent. Someone once said, ‘If you have one lakh rupees, and you take a rupee away from it, will it still be one lakh?’
Most people of the commercial world have the same attitude these days. They are rich. They can afford the best luxury in the world. A coin that one gives to a beggar on the street may mean only one or two units to the person giving it, but to the beggar, it probably means her/his food for the day. The true people who value money are the smart businessmen and the poor. The businessmen only have value for one unit when the same unit comes many times a day. For example, the toll tax of Gurgaon, Haryana used to cost twenty rupees. Later, they increased it to twenty-one rupees. Why would they have done this? The one rupee alone makes no difference to them, but they know that lakhs of people pass through that toll gate every day. They know they will make lakhs of extra rupees. The people who are giving the one rupee only think of the one (rounded to none) that they are losing, but the people that are gaining a one from each driver know how much it’ll make them in the end.
People of the modern, technology filled world have no value for what each rupee does. In speeches, they always say that every one counts, but in reality, nobody follows it because each one is waiting for the other person to start the chain, and so nobody does. People are always scared of being the oddball of society. ‘What will people think if I express my thoughts? Society will look down upon me’, people tell themselves in their mind. Society will look down on people at the beginning, but there will always be people who are receptive to what one is saying. Soon, the beginner of the chain will gain followers and the movement would spread far and wide throughout the country. It would take time, but ultimately, it would be a success and then the person would gain a lot of fame.
People need to know what knowledge they are losing out on. It is much more than money. Money is just an example, but it is much bigger than that.
Someone needs to inform the people and spread the knowledge throughout that every one counts.
During elections, about forty percent of the population doesn’t vote because they don’t believe that their vote will make a difference. They believe it is just one out of a billion. They don’t know that their one vote could be the last vote which decides the fate of the elections. Why do we have elections? It is only because the people who made our country a democracy knew that every one counted.
Hitler knew that every one counted. He proved to us that one man can make a difference, whether good or bad. All the famous leaders, like Nelson Mandela, who lead his country to unite each one through a game and Mahatma Gandhi, who was one of the causes for our country’s freedom. Every single one of the great leaders wanted to make a difference and did a tremendous job.
People lack the realization that they can make a difference. Once everybody gets to know this little fact, then the country and the world will prosper magnificently.
It will only take one person to start the chain. People just need to believe it and understand it. Only then will the functionalities of the world go on properly and everyone will be able to live with each other in absolute harmony.
