MONEY IS MANDATORY

MONEY IS MANDATORY

Syed Jamal Shah

Money says ‘Save me today and I’ll save you tomorrow’

          Money can’t buy happiness but poverty cannot buy anything either. In the search of better future, He was lost in land with no plan, in past epoch he has done so many jobs, experiencing fishing as fisherman in Karachi on shores of turbat blue warm water and as labour poor man in cotton industry mill. For loaf of bread, he had explored Pakistan urban cities to far flung countryside’s. Now in 60years age having white cap, white beard, grey hair, brown eyes, sleeveless black sherwani with primary 5th  class education and locals in his community consider him literate and wise as well as wealthy because he is running shop in remote village having estimated worth of 900$.His daily income is 8-10$,his political activism is exceptional.

          Well, we were on summer trip to the beautiful valley; fortunately we were passing by his village by our four wheel cruiser. We got thought to take stop for refreshment, near blue waterfall besides peach garden. Buddies were wandering for a shop to buy snack plus cigarette’s, by asking we reached to shop.  By  hitting  his  shop,  the  old  fella  offered  salaam  and  we  felt  as comfortable as an old shoes. He knew that we are new to the valley so his hospitality won our hearts and thus in the middle, our conversation took start. While doing talk with us local folk passing by his shop use to utter one word ‘MASHAR ROR SALAAM’’.I asked him what does this MASHAR ROR stands for? Smiled and replied, ‘‘villagers (austere) think that am the jack of all trades like am  aware  and  having  traveling  exposure  and  understandings  outside  the valley, able to do blindfolded’’.

       Above board, In Bros code, MASHAR ROR stands for Big Bro. Although, doing talks with us, I was thinking about solidarity in them. They were living rough, raw and showing care for each other. Nevertheless, his political narratives were dissimilar from us, deep-rooted and realizing us sense of dejavu, visualizing possibilities and feeling precarious in the current political scenario. He added it’s an open secret that we are in the same boat of  dumb politicians and  called  this  democracy  STD  (Sexually  Transmitted  Democracy)  nail  in country coffin, todays their third generation is ruling and exploiting us by taxes, bad infrastructure, poverty, education and lack of basic health facilities and our people are still backing the wrong horses in elections. His friend serving green tea to us in the limelight of our hard talk and said ‘alive dog is better than dead lion’. Our illiterate politicians are frogs in big pond.

Currency brings happiness and happiness brings healthy life.

           After,  spending  half  hour  with  him,  on  the  way  back  I  was  thinking  that MASHAR ROR is lost hero on a planet. Acting high and mighty became our faith; killing two birds with one stone become the mainstream principle of our so called modern society. On one hand, he is living a life according to his wishes and esteem, on other hand we are leading dog life full of gaudy competitions and dreams of rat race, and still we are not letting the cat out of the bag. We are copying others in society and expecting to become successful but in fact we are betraying ourselves. Human species have alienated their race in numerous classes by altered norms, critics are still breathing in our self- made discoveries. Late Tupac Shakur a legend and Godfather of Rap music once said in his interview that ‘’after putting charges on me, I told judge that I was raised wrong, was a hyper as kid, cold as teenager, too much trouble in the world, nobody can feel my pain, the world is changing every day and time is moving fast’’.

      Hence, According to MASHAR ROR that ‘educated people consider everything as benefit but folks like us don’t think by their way, we are old school but still believe in respect and we also value relationships in valley’. The urban life is combo of dreams and struggle. Educated class are planting plants on moon but can’t find food for starving tummies, they are growing wiser, are just growing tall, they cannot milk cows even though they drive cars. An educated group in society  describes  Character;  by  give  and  take  but  long  in  the  tooth  like MASHAR ROR told me that ‘Character is how you treat those who can do nothing for you’.

      According to Robert kiyosaki in his famous book, Rich dad and poor dad that

‘it’s true that money is not the most important thing in life, but money does affect everything that is important to life’.

       Indian proverb ‘Man without money is a bow without arrow’. To be honest whatever the world is saying, Cash is the foundation of everything, considering it we can understand that good education, healthy life, organic food and much more comes through this Money. In the race of contemporary world to lead better future everyone emphases on money through by direct means or by indirect ways. Study has proved that as comparative to urban life, countryside societies don’t take this race as essential as urban societies do. Putting everything on money is not the trend of rural life, but MASHAR ROR ‘‘don’t judge mankind on the standard of money’’.

       According to MASHAR ROR, Rural and urban societies are two sides of coin, we can’t ignore both standard but we need to decide whether we are choosing moral or wicked side. Rejecting both sides is ignorance because both are the souls of one body. In the same way, we need to filter out our needs and mind- set that either which side of the coin is lucky. Secrete of pleasure is not the money but to find out what we truly wants then we need to direct all our energy towards doing it. Money is such an amazing teacher: what you choose to do, it shows you the directions.

    It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.
                                                                                     Diogenes of sinope.