Steem4nigeria Accelerator Contest Week135: What I Will Never Do For Money

Imagine that you are walking on your way you saw beautiful houses being build, people wearing expensive dresses and being happy, and you touched your pucket no money in you left, hunger knocking your stomach, and you see one man spraying bundles of money anyhow because he just win from one shady deal. You look at him, in your mind saying: “Am I the only one suffering? Should I try what they are doing to have money too.?

What really is money? Is it everything for life? Or it's just a tool which can help a person to live better?. Let's see

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Money is that tool which makes life easy for people. If you don't have money, even respect will hard. Money can buy food, clothes, house, car, even health care. But the truth is that, money is just a tool. It's not life itself. Some people do worship it like god, but me I see it as something which can help me to live better, not something which will control my destiny.

However, money as a tool can give you freedom, but it can't buy peace of mind. It can buy bed, but it can't buy sleep. It can buy medicine, but it can't buy health. That's why I always remind myself that, money is a servant, not to be a master.

Yes, a lot of things are there which I won't ever do for money. I won't steal, I won't kill, I won't betray a person which trust me. I won't join ritual or yahoo. Even if hunger want to finish me, and I won't sell my conscience. I won't do all this because of money.

Because I believe that money which i have through dirty ways do always carry curse. You can enjoy it today, but tomorrow it brings problems. That's I tell myself that, “Its better for me hustle in a clean way , even if it's slow.”

Honestly I have face temptation before. One time, a person which I knew back then tells me to join them for and illegal business. The business promise quick cash if I can use laptop to scam people abroad. That time I was really broke, I reason it. But as I was thinking, I remember that my God is watching and if I fall for that trap, it's shame I'll bring to his name. I walked away from that place, but the temptation was strong very well.

Another time, my workmate offers me money to lie against another colleague at the office. The money was huge thoe, but I reject it. Because if I lie, I can destroy the person career. That kind of action do spoil a clean conscience. So yes, temptation came, but I hold myself.

I won't cross certain line because I value my peace of mind, my family name, and my future. I believe that money which you hustle clean do sweet more than the dirty one. Even if it's small, you will sleep well at night. But money which you have through evil, it will eat up your soul slowly.

Advice which I'll give is that : Don't allow desperation push you to enter a bad road Don't let hardship turn you to criminal. If you are tempted, remember that life doesn't end today it still continues. Tomorrow can be better if you hold your integrity.

Money can finish, but your name will last. If you spoil your name because of quick cash, you can regret it till you die. Hustle clean, hustle legit.

Money is a tool to make life better and it's important, but its not bigger than your peace of mind and your dignity. Dont allow hardship to turn you to criminal. Am if you are being tempted, remember that life did end today. Tomorrow can be better if you hold your integrity. Hustle clean, even if its slow, it's a sure one.

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