the money tree .

when i was a kid , i used to wish money grew off trees . that way , all i needed to do was to climb up in a tree , pull out 5 leaves, and buy that barbie doll that i wanted . i mean it was only 5 leaves . do you know how many trees there are in the world ? it wouldn't hurt at all . everyone would still have oxygen , and i would have my barbie . i thought , "God, why wouldnt you make the money grow from the trees ? my life would be so much easier ."

i blamed him .

but now that i am older and wiser , i understand . if money grew from trees , we'd all commit suicide . every tree on this planet would be stripped of all the leaves and used on materialistic things that us humans claim are "essentials" to our daily lives . clothes , shoes , cars , mansions . we would trade our oxygen in to be fly . cause at the end of the day .. that's all we really want . we wanna be fly . we wanna be fly-er than the next chick or dude so bad , that if money trees existed , we'd kill ourselves for it . we'd kill our neighbors and our parents for it . our best friends and our lovers for it . cause once the oxygen is gone , we all are . we would no longer strive to reach goals and dreams because they would instead be handed to us . this would be a passionless world filled with suicidal consumers .

Lord, you are a genius . thanks for thinking ahead . (: