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Me and my friend had a scuffle, money was involved.
He screamed; "you're not my match"
"No amount of money can make me fret"
"I have no regard for money"
"I have money as much as I need it and I don't fret cause of money"
"You know I am rich, you know I am very connected”
I put my friend to test, I pretended I needed all the last cents I could get even to drink a cup of water so much that he calmly concluded' Mannn, you're just too poor and I feel sorry for your situation.

Me and my friend had a deal; the kind of chicken feed money anybody can make up or do without.
I fixed the job, he pays for the services.
Job done, friend don't pay.
Why don't you pay friend?
My friend screamed; "I'm going to break a bottle on your head if you asked me such question again. I already paid you."
"But friend, you didn't pay" you only made a 30% deposit, I need my money friend."

My friend screamed; "I have money as much as I need it, I used to give money to many begging folks and I don't fret cause of money" "You know I am rich."
But friend you fretting already" I said.
My friend pulls off his shirt and was going to break the bottle and fight for only as much as $200usd.
How much are you worth?

Friend owe friend money'
Friend screamed; "Look my friend, I am above all that, how much is your money?
Ok, I give it to you next week"
Next week come, friend don't pay. Another week gone, friend don't pay still.
I asked my friend, when will you pay me the little money you owe me?
Friend say; Oh' next week, give me some time, I just burned a lot of cash with some friends in the bar last night, I did a lot of shopping the other day, I sent some cash home for keep, I am expecting some million bucks, friend, just give me some time, how much is your money?, give me till the end of the month, you know I am worth more than all that money."

One month come, friend don't pay still. Friend go meet friend, friend said;
'Oh your money? Come tomorrow, I give you, I just bought some skin shoes yesterday, it cost me the sky, you know money don't scare me, I am worth more than all that money."

Tomorrow come, friend go meet friend again, friend smiled and said; "Give me some time, when I get money I pay.
You know money is nothing to me."
Now, How much is my friend worth?"

Me and my friend were having a drink in a bar, Mr. Political Man walked in and met us. He said; Friends come join my party.
We're getting famous and we have men in high and privileged positions.
You'll become rich and connected if you join us.
Everybody wants to be rich, everybody wants to be connected.
Election comes; Mr. Political Man meets my friend, he said; I'll give you a bag of rice if you vote for me, I'll let you put my T-Shirts on your friends if you'll cajole them to vote for me"
"I'll give you some money, more money"
"I'll make your families and cronies favoured, you'll be connected too"
"Only if you vote for me"
Friend took all the money, the bag of rice and the T-shirts while Mr. Political Man took all the votes.

One day my friend felt deprived and neglected by everything.
The bag of rice finished, the T-Shirts, all torn and worn, the money finished too – who said money will never get finished?
My friend went to Mr. Political Man and complained bitterly;

"Excuse me sir, we've had no electricity for over 3 weeks now in my community, my other friends have ran away from the country because life has become so unbearable, many schools have shut down because there is no money to run them, roads to my community is so bad - there is so much loss and neglect in my community to an extent that sometimes we wonder if you still remember your promises."

Mr. Political man pretended to be extremely busy while my friend cries on. Then he looked up through his glasses and said;
"Do you need more rice, friend?"
"I got some T-shirts still left in the wardrobe for your other friends"
"As for money, there is no money"
Now how much is my friend worth in the society?

Me and my friend had a deal, I put in 500,000 bucks, that's about $5,000USD equivalent, deal turn awry, my friend did his best I guess, deal just turned awry, I wasn't there but so he said, all the high expectations sanked below, my friend's health dropped too, we'd lost millions.

Another friend come up, the third friend and said; "Do you believe that man? Maybe he'd ripped you off and cooked up cocky stories to keep you at bay, there are too many fraudsters these days and the tactics keeps multiplying.

I put a call through, I asked my friend; "Where is my money?"
My friend said; sorry, we lost it all, cheats and pimps take all the money, every cent gone!"

I was going to rake and rave like an angry Blackman but you can't fight who you don't see besides we're two worlds' apart - I calmly dropped the phone and went to bed. Next time I see my friend, he's in a mess, wife kicked him out, he'd lost so much pounds and cash, he can't get a place to lay his head, he'd been to many praying houses to enliven his soul.

I let my friend come in and get some relief, some food to eat and bed to lay on - he keeps telling me what happened and how business turned so much awry that there was nothing to count on as gain but excessive loss. I had to switch the conversation. One day, my friend's wife called and asked him; so where are you Mr. Husband? He said, in my friend's house."
"Did he get mad for his money"
"No, he didn't budge that much"
"He let me in and we talked things over and he didn't doubt me that much" Wifey called me and said; I am so proud of you friend; you are indeed a friend and I bet you could be great.

I asked the wifey, Why all that heat?' I got a worth, and only me know how much that worth is, it's my loss, it's his loss too, here, I can't find the money on him, his physique is closing in on him so that he needs all the care and love, and we got a worth that exceeds breads and crumbs, and if he is with all the money, we going to keep moving until the heat turns in on him, this is a journey, like they used to say, 'life is a trip'-such a complex trip, we lose it all today, we gain it all tomorrow. And if you take it all to yourself and shut the doors, darkness will enclose in on you someday, somehow.

If you put your lights on behind closed doors because you got all the means now to make everything work for you, friend’s and folks money in your hand will hunt you to your grave, your end will be wrapped up in misery.
There is no gainsaying, it’ll happen.

The worth of a man is not in the cologne he wears, his cars, the money in his accounts, his connections etc.
Are you selfish? Everybody is selfish. The lower your price tag the higher your selfishness.
Are you greedy? Everyman is greedy. Those with bloated personality tilt towards the extreme, to such a man, he feels price worthy by acquiring and piling up goods by every means necessary with less rooms for a ‘think back’. Why should he have a conscience? For every move he makes, by the crook or by the hook, he justifies himself – he said; 'I have a principle,'

'I am a man of this and that.' He struggles to sell what he is not, he wants to seem rich and important by gathering even where he did not sow, he would like to rip off even friends and brothers - What is he doing? – He wants to attach a 'price' to his personality so we could say; this man is worth this or that.

There is a price tag on every man on earth, it is called ‘Esteem,’ when you attach it to yourself it becomes ‘Self Esteem’.
Self Esteem is cultured to worth a value, if you have it, people will respect you and price you high because you have a value and if you don’t have it, you’re simply a piece of trash.

Nobody wants to be a piece of trash so people struggle by the crook or by the hook to acquire a ‘worth’ to themselves. By the crook is easier. You don’t need to be creative; creativity is madness, a journey through the eye of a needle – it takes so much a long time and pain to earn a living through creative means, you could get discouraged because that’s by the hook and a hook is not a beautiful thing to look at.

By the crook is easier, you don’t need to work all that hard, just keep cutting corners. People without a culture cuts corners to achieve results at everything, but their result attracts no ‘worth’ so they struggle to get ‘a worth’, they struggle to get a worthy attention from everyone, even people who cares not a pin about them.

They would like to be respected and recognized anywhere they are even if they are bunch of 'hare-brains'
But the truth is; there is no worth for a man without a culture. There is no worth for a man that will arrive at conclusions through awkward practices and depraved beliefs of recognition and acceptance into the society.

My friend said; "I'm a hard man, tough nut to crack." To prove his worth, he get into charms and become so diabolical, he fights with bottles and knives in the street, in the clubs, at the park for every dime and hire helpless urchins to do his biddings for a token; he got a mission - he wants to be respected.

My friend preach religion and rob in the sleaziest manner even from friends and brothers, their money in his pocket, his hand sticking on to much more and never enough - to prove his worth, he moved down home, bought cars and built a palace - he would like to be recognized.

My friend joined the politics for two necessary evils – respect and recognition. He wants to be connected too, he would like to be recognized as rich and powerful, he rips everyone off, mounts the rostrum and flaunts his 'Self' about. Even among a society that cared least about him.

For rice and crumbs, bread and butter, men with the lowliest state of minds will rob, kill, maim and cheat to get a name.
The bread and butter are the fancy cars, the jewelries and the skin shoes that'll fade and worn like butter do melt with the heat of time - they're going to become junks after a couple of years.

The rice and crumbs are the 'monies you never worked for, monies you ripped off people, monies you cheated business colleagues of, that'll definitely get finished one day. Just like my friend finished eating his bag of rice and would want some more - You're going to spend it all someday, somehow for the butter and the bread that will melt with the heat of time.
And how much will you worth my dear friend?

Nothing but as low as the $200usd you fight for. Your self worth will be as low as the buzzing house fly who in order to get recognized perch on people's foods and get swapped in the process - in the middle of the riches, you're going to get swapped. There's no gain saying my brother. It will happen!
And how much will you worth still?

It takes a great deal of hard nocks and pain to wear a worthy price tag. Sometimes Pressures of life sets in and a man's character is threatened to such an extent that his 'Self worth' is questioned. Watch that man, he will overcome all his difficulties one day, he certainly will overcome all obstacles. Obstacles brings out the creativity in us, the longer the pain, the more creative we build, the more creative we become the more expensive and valuable our worth.

There is nothing creative in criminality so the man with vain self worth seek for short cuts to build an 'Esteemed' value to attach to his 'Self.'

People who seek short cuts are weaklings afraid to face the reality of life revealing their low self esteem.

A man of low Self Esteem struggles all his active days to acquire a worth that'll rot as his days unfold, in the end he wraps up his life in misery - there are too many evidences my brother, this is the price you pay for falsehood and deceits.

How much are you worth?
God Bless
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