Is Money Evil?

Me and my partner had a fight. She said, "Mas pinahahalagahan mo yang pera kesa sakin at sa relasyon natin! Magpakasal kayo ng demonyo mong pera! Hindi mo yan madadala sa kabilang buhay kapag namatay ka!"

Kinuha ko lahat ng alkransya ko at pati narin ang mga sisidlan ng aking emergency funds, at nagwika sakanya ng, "Is money, evil?"

Dagli syang nanahimik at umagos ang luha sa kanyang mga mata. Tinitigan ko ang kanyang mga mata at sinagot ko ang sarili kong katanongan, "Hindi!" 

But it wasn't convincing to her.

Consciously, she knew money isn't evil. But deep within, the old programming, "money is the source of all evil," was pulling her.

Yon ang problema ng karamihan. The poor mentality has been programmed within us since we were kids.

I said, "If this(money) is evil, bakit kailangan natin ng at least Php12,000 every single month to feed us, makapag-commute at mabayaran ang mga utility bills?"