Money: A Change Driver, You Hold The Four Aces in Human Equations

Money: A Change Driver, You Hold The Four Aces in Human Equations

By: Balami Lazarus

One of the good and most interesting things about children is their mindset. Theirs are pure and natural actions and inactions. Their imaginations are also wild and crazy. To them, all things are possible and positive without limitations. We were indeed once like them.

As a child, I used to tell myself and my parents that when I grow up, I will have plenty of money to buy all my needs and wants. The thought of this makes me laugh my heart out. And here I am, an adult descending in age, faced with a bale of classified and catalogued financial commitments portioned and dished out to family, relatives, and friends in their plates of needs, where money is the change driver to these challenges.

The power and influence of money as a change driver in the human equation is a permanent denominator in lives and in death—its role in funerals and burials is significant.

I know now that this one piece of work will be a change driver in the equation that has refused to be balanced between Ballama Shettima Mustapha, my childhood friend since our teens and twenties in Zaria and Maiduguri. As I write with my pen plugged in a creative scenario, he knows and understands what I mean.

Let us now take a look at this event and begin to consider the power and influence of money in changing equations because with it you hold the four aces. When he was introduced and called upon as the Chief Launcher at a fundraising event. There were patches of noise of disrespect and mockery. He looks simple in personality and dressing as he walks to the podium. His steps of confidence were rhythms of affluence and capacity. With the influence of wealth and power of money was the fragrance that enveloped the hall.In a blink of an eye his donation brought a complete silence and stillness; a pin drop was a noise, if at all there were any.Do you now agree with me that he has changed an equation in the attitudes of the audience? My friend can now laugh.

I hope you all have heard some individuals will tell you that their problem is money. And I say, if that is their mind and

thinking I stand to tell them with sincerity of purpose that he/ she will find it difficult and near impossible to get hat money they are looking for. For me, money as a legal tender has never been my challenge. My grudges and axe to grind with money is how to make the money through wealth creation processes that should comes with positive human transformation as a change driver.

Most of us are aware that money has always been the quick means, reasons, and motives behind crimes and negative changes of attitudes, behavior, and character in humans. In fact, to say it loud and clear, it is the driver of most crimes time immemorial in societies.

It has made many people change from whom you used to know to something else. I have also seen where it has made some stupid stooges and factotums because of their uncontrollable and excessive quest and love for money, stretching them to evil dungeons.And that allegedly, if you want to change a course of charges in a police station, offer money, and automatically the equation will change in favor of either of the parties.

However, not all human equations can be changed by money. Where conscience, integrity, and morality are disciplined by men as a pathfinder, money is secondary in the affairs of such a society, as the case may be.

Balami, a publisher/columnist. 08036779290

Money: A Change Driver, You Hold The Four Aces in Human Equations