Living like a Myth

What is money? Lately I've been asking myself this question. It seems that money is the thing that divides people, makes some people feel better, more entitled and even smarter than other people who have less.

I wonder what a little child would say if I showed him or her a note of money. I bet the child would call it 'paper. That would make people with lots of 'paper' and an exaggerated sense of 'worth' because of it, seem a little silly. And it would make Daniel Suelo, the man who quit money, seem like one of the smartest men in the world.

Suspend your left-brain for a few minutes, the part in us all that numbly obeys the rules of the world, and consider the possibility that money is just an illusion.

Okay so I'm not sure about living in a cave or eating road-kill but Suelo makes a good point about the real human nature - our inherent desire to give and help each other. Sadly we've been blinded to our natural state by the bright lights of consumerism. There is a price, we're running out of our planet... literally! According to the recently published Living Planet Report, we're using 50% more resources than the Earth can provide. By 2030, even two planets will not be enough! That's no illusion.

So who's really living like a myth, the man who gave up money or us?