Does Money Really Matter

There's a subtle yet distinct sense of foreboding that often lurks beneath money -- when money really matters.
It's at such times that money really matters, and it's during these squeezes that money matters can be personally addressed at deeper levels.
Money money money -- always sunny in the rich man's world'?.



Yes money does matter in life -- there is no denying the essentially of money as a commodity for living.
And money matters do not take precedence over matters of life and death, health matters, human relationships, and other personal issues.
And the irony is that the more something matters, the more unbalanced we become, and the more things like money tend to elude us.
Being primarily a form of energy, money needs to be seen first and foremost as a means of exchanging energy with another person, (or group of people).
Maybe you're familiar with the device -- it's an electricity meter box that has a slot for a plastic key that you take to a local shop, pay money (any amount you wish), receive an equivalent potential charge of electricity, take it home and slot it in the key meter.
The system overcomes the need for emptying coin meters, along with the possibility that they might be broken into, the money stolen, or the device tampered with.
When you take the empty key to be charged, is it money you bring home in it? Or is it maybe actually charged with electricity? (Heaven help us if it is!) Or is it rather mere potential? I say 'mere' -- and yet 'potential' and 'actual' are one and the same thing when time is taken out of the equation.


If we were to take the whole thing a step further backwards in time, at some point you exchanged services (or goods you owned) for the money you took to the shop.


And somewhere in the middle of all this we have the 'money' itself - MONEY as a commodity, (or is it just our illusion of money?).


So let's ask this: How different is money from the key? Both just provide a means whereby energy is transferred from one place to another.
Where is the money kept? Where is money coming from -- where going to? What IS money?

We might ask regarding our electricity: What part does the key play in our getting household electricity and being able to use it? How important is the key?

Well the key is definitely something we do not want to lose; we'd want to look after it, especially when we bring it home charged up, as it now represents a certain amount of our hard earned cash.
The key matters -- but is not the whole picture.
Yes it matters -- but it isn't the whole picture.
Without each particular part nothing would work.
Having the electricity in our home is what the whole exercise is really about.
Just like in the days when merchandise was exchanged for other merchandise, money was as yet unheard-of.
Viewed as such it will never be allowed to take on any kind of extra significance -- an importance that could be likely to make money matters worse for us!