Money Makes Her World Go Round

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I feel so strongly about this, because money can’t buy happiness or love. (Which for me would be the little things that help you deal with all the crap life has to offer.)

She told me that I betrayed her because she was not giving me money.

She told me that I revealed the truth to the man because he was giving me money.

She told the old lady that I could take her money and run because I was her co-depositor and I had the papers.

She spends twenty five thousand pesos a week easy. (that’s roughly US$500)

She told me that I should never get into an argument with my husband about money.

She asks for cellphone prepaid cards in exchange for helping my brother with his homework.

She charges me 100 for the cleaners but the man said he pays the cleaners extra so I don’t have to pay them anymore.

She charges interest when her siblings borrow money from her.

She remembers IOU’s from decades ago.

She borrowed money from the man but never paid him back.

I feel that she will soon run him to the ground and leave him because she can’t buy obscene amounts of eggs, butter and sugar from the supermarket anymore.

It saddens me because she is my mother and the man is my father. I was born to them, and I have tried my best to love her but she refuses to look at me and see who I really am. I cannot believe that she worries that I will run away with her money. It is unthinkable. I hope I misunderstood all the things I heard. God knows I’ve had enough of her lack of reason. Money is simply a means to get the tangible things we need to exist. It will never be the reason for existence.

How sad that this is the way she perceives the world and yet it explains why she is so unhappy all this time.

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