Honey no money

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As I cross the threshold of my home there grows a guava tree loaded with abundant fruits, which I planted three years ago. Every evening, I experience a spectacular sight. My day is complete and comforted when I see them. A pair of honeybee birds rests on the slender branch of the guava plant. They fly in around 6:30 pm waking up around 5 am to catch the early worm. They huddle and snuggle very warmly, their beaks in each other's breasts. They are not bigger than my eyes. They are small but brave, I have to touch them every evening to assure myself of their august presence! Whenever I see them I say, "Good night, please come back tomorrow."

One day aunty Eunice Sequera, who is a quizmaster and an expert in general knowledge, came home from Mangalore. I introduced her to my feathered friends. When she asked me " Where do they live John", I answered "Right there where you see them!" Surprisingly she asked, "What do you mean right there.... where is their nest?" It was then that this question struck me so much. These birds lived just like that. They needed nothing like shelter, clothes, apartment, car, phones, luxury, TV, insurance, bank securities and above all no money to live.

Yes, honey no money.
Honeybee birds need no money
The only creatures in the animal world that relate to each other in terms of money are the homosapiens. The moment they attain consciousness and liberate themselves from their "animal existence" they invent a system of relationship that will civilize them.

The history states about the human greed. It says, possession of excess human greed developed from a very beautiful, natural and tribal sharing of the hunted or gathered food. Sharing underdeveloped to barter system. 'You give me three cows and I will exchange it for that six-and-a-half goats!' The clever man thought of standardizing, an object capable of buying and selling everything; the strongest, the shining star of all things inanimate, could bring you the whole world. He called it the golden money!

This money now can buy you anything and everything. It can buy you cars, apartments with swimming pools. It can buy slaves who can wait upon you. It can buy you champagne, the best cocktails, money can buy more money when you invest it into shares and real estates!

Money endows power to those who posses it.
Money subjugates and dispossess those who do not posses it.
It pits human beings into confrontation and conflicts. It dehumanizes man and increases his lust for power and material wealth. It erodes and weakens the moral dignity of humankind. It wages war among brothers and produces "merchants of death" who style themselves as impeccable gentlemen. These merchants make their billion bucks selling wars, selling guns, hatred, and enmity... all for the love of money.