Amongst the paragon of luxuries and true, blue signs of wealth it was a God-given blessed to find a living gem, an articulate being and an intellectual admiral. Would one have guessed that a walk amongst Italian fineries crafted and delivered with pride and arrogant display of prestige, a kinder spirit was the best display of the day?
It was a fateful meet. A meet decided by the One who created the faith and fate.
The prized possession was an aged sapphire. Aged; with grace, maturity and foresightedness in his stride. It was a smile during the first sight. Conversation drifted from the finer work of arts to a pearly of wisdom. The price was time but the shopping thirst was filled.
The talk was on inheritance. How much is much? Who gets what? When will it be right?
The man who had passed the prime of his youth, bedazzled with word, “Offer your children your inheritance while you are still alive. When they are young and their lust of money materials are at their best desires.”
Eyes blinked. Confused.
“One day, I called to my children, who were then in the finest of their youth. I was younger and stronger. I surely had more years to live. But I was ready to give them all the inheritance they deserve, as equally good as if I should be dead.”
“No, it wasn’t a bit the craziest idea. It came with a condition. The condition was a challenge for them to aim higher in their academic excellence, the higher everyone climbs, the higher the inheritance they got. In the end, money is not the reward, but the knowledge as well as skills they got help to see through life comfortably and as honorable individuals.”
Admiration one shall say about his philosophy.
Looking on the social matter that constantly need to be dealt with all these years, one will definitely deem to agree with the word from Will Smith, “Too many people spent the money they haven’t earn, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.”
Words coming from a man who have Hollywood’s blockbusters around his belt, whose assets worth at least three luxury generations living and whose name click his hefty luck to the banks, would care to say these.
Put aside negative notion should there be any, importantly society today have much to learn the true philosophy behind the real meaning of inheritance.
Social philosophy is not a bad culture to adapt in building characters. Taking directly from Morrie Schwartz’s point of view, “We’ve got a form of brainwashing going on in our country. Do you know how they brainwash people? They repeat something over and over again. Owning things is good. More money is good. More property is good. More commercialism is good. More is good. More is good. We repeat it – have it repeated to us – over and over again until nobody bothers to even think otherwise. The average people is so fogged up by all this, he has no perspective on what’s really important anymore. Wherever I went in my life, I met people wanting to gobble up something new. Gobble up a new car. Gobble up a new piece of property. Gobble up the latest toy. And then they wanted to tell you about it, “Guess what I got? Guess what I got?”
A walk amongst the human displays in life, there is no deny on Morrie’s opinion. The societies we live in today, in majority, are slaves to money materials. The culture is such that the average men are trying to show off to the people at the top without realizing that they will be looked down on anyhow while showing off to people at the bottom who will only envy them.
The ignited theory to this is, the societies are people so hungry for love that they are accepting substitutes with the material things they embrace and expecting to be hug back, without realizing that these will never work! There is no substitute for love, for gentleness, for tenderness or for comradeship.
This is a WAKE UP CALL.
Before spending the money that are now getting doubly hard to be earned or buying things that are not purposeful or showing off by owning things just to impress others, one should think, how much could the money be well-invested in the name of the successors who will be here to continue battling this harsh world after we take our leave?
Yours truly,
Tyro's Musing
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