Money is funny

 

So much about chasing money, the behind of it or its ass is what we always see while on pursuit.

No other commodity makes such a difference as much as money does when we seek material fulfillment. Well I have come to realize that other than material fulfillment we also most desire good food. And it is precisely one such moment while having food that I saw people look down upon money.

Having picked up the habit of donating generous sums to my neighborhood street food vendor, I have managed to keep this Indian tradition alive since school. Awesome amount of money spent on junk food and alcohol. Alcohol entered life much later but Junk food always reigns supreme for being the supplier of good hormones to my craving heart. Never calculated, yet my rough estimate puts the figure at some 1-2 lakhs till now. Always had the desire to eat out and spend money. Its a lifestyle need and money feeds it. I don't require much funding to keep my panipuri and corn habit alive. I almost always have saved some change to give the vendor his due for keeping my taste buds happy.

One such occasion when a usual crowd surrounded the bhaiya we waited for our chance one by one as he poured the paani filled puris on our plates. It just so happened that the bhaiya while giving chillar change to one of the customers by mistake dropped the five rupee coin inside the vessel full of the masala water. To my amazement people who were till then not so hygiene conscious had expressions of disgust as everyone realized that serving hence forth will be from that contaminated water. I never quite realized that people perceive money as something so dirty. At that moment I thought oh yes one never knows this coin would have changed several hands and then reached here. Probably some beggar had this coin. That yuck just stayed as the moment failed to pass when everyone could still see that coin at the bottom of that vessel. With every passing paani puri going into my mouth that feeling of disgust subsided with the crunching and munching sound that stays in you ear (every pani puri lover can vouch for that).

There was a discussion that I was a part of. Whether we live to eat or whether we eat to live. I have to choose one so I said fuck the topic as in both the cases life just seems to be the face of money or earnings. Never mind life or economics as for me money will always be funny.

For as long as food is fun and my mother is besides me, fun will never elude me.