Greed

I am a firm believer in the Chinese philosophy of the natural occurring dualities of life - the yin and yang of our existence.  Highs and lows.  Life and death. A heaven can’t exist without hell.  You can’t have the good without the evil.  When there’s good in the universe, it never fails something bad is around the corner … and vice versa.

All right, enough of this celestial, hippie universe crap.  Let me cut to the point.

After a great day at work, I got robbed.  Yep.  Jacked.  Violated.  Straight up cheated out of a hard day’s work at a time when I truly need every dollar I earn (note in my last post 'No More Raging Alcoholics...' of how broke I am at the moment). 

My entire $110 dollars from my previous day’s shift was stolen right out of my wallet out of my purse from my locker at work (note yesterday I only made $7 dollars in tips).  So on this day, making $100 dollars is a godsend this time of year.  And to know the thief could have been a potential co-worker of mine makes me sick. 

And while I am broke all hell, salivating at every dollar I make, filling my gas tank $10 dollars at a time, some greedy thief is out there spending my hard earned money.  Perhaps my thief will spend that money on rent, food or groceries.  Or perhaps it’ll be spent on a gift for his or her lover.  Whether my thief spends that money for survival or for gifts is obviously of no relevance to me.  A thief is a thief. 

Being in the cash business can be a huge blessing.  It’s convenient and downright fantastic to have cash all the time.  It makes day-to-day life so much easier in the 21^st century that runs on debit and credit cards. 

But on the flip side – the yin to the yang – it’s also a huge curse.  I know I spend much more money on meaningless crap than, let’s say, the average eight-to-fiver who gets paid via direct deposit into their checking account.    And of course, having cash all the time invites the inevitable issue of vulnerability and theft.  Case in point. 

The yin and the yang – it’s everywhere if you’re consciously aware of it. Because as one relatively tragic event happened to me, a positive event will surely happen in my near future.  I just have to keep my eyes and ears open.

With that being said, something really bad is surely around the corner for that greedy bastard.  

(Prepare yourself for my spiritually divine ending...)

And knowing the universe has its way of balancing out not only helps me stay positive but also helps me sleep at night.  ~ HK ~