Money !

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As we are growing up, if not earlier, most of us are hit by the reality of money. That we need to make some to survive... and a little more to make life a little better and so on....
Until we grey a little (or a lot :)) and figure out money will never be enough, unless we begin to think that it is !

I am currently reading Going Postal by Terry Pratchett. The characters might appear to be unreal, or is it the world surreal (!!!), but what they say makes a lot of sense... Here goes an extract :

Money in not a thing. It is not even a process. It is a kind of shared dream.
We dream that a small disc of common metal is worth the price of a substantial meal.
Once you wake up from that dream, you can swim in a sea of money. 

What says you ?

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