What is more important? Person or thing? People or money?

For this article, I would like to discuss about "How greed is subtly brainwashing us because you know there are many problems in the world today and it is cause by greed. Why? Because for us things are more important than people.

And my big message for you today is this LOVE PEOPLE AND USE THINGS. The problem is we people, we mix it up na nababaligtad na natin instead of loving people and use things what we do is this "WE LOVE THINGS AND THEN WE USE PEOPLE to get the things that we love. Especially money or profit kaya nagkakandaloko-loko ang buhay natin.

I immediately remembered this story, when I was around 20 years old, fresh graduate, I worked in our family business and because of that my father was out of his generosity, he gave me his own car. That car was paid to him by his client then because he would not use it he said "Son, here is the car, it's just for you. That's what you use your own service" and lo and behold, I was so fortunate because the car that my father gave me was a second hand BMW but it was very smooth, very nice to set up. You really don't have to do anything, it's so smooth.

Since it's my first car so I really keep it. I drive slowly, I wash every day, I wash it from time to time because I am very careful. That is important to me.

One day my younger sister borrowed it from me. This sister of mine was just new in driving. Unfortunately, when she was parked in our garage she did not see the usual large rock that was there and then she suddenly hit it because she made a mistake, the stone did not move, so she hit it. My car was scratched and when he entered the house, she was very scared. She could do nothing but admit it to me. She said to me "Brother sorry, I scratched your car, I did not see the rock."

You know my first reaction, I really erupted like a volcano. I told her "You're weird" and I even told her bad words and what I said to her. I said "what are you, I still take care of that, I will be very careful there and then you will just borrow it and you will not be careful." I was so mad at her and it ended up my sister was crying and for the next few days she did not want to borrow my car.

Our relationship was torn, was broken because what I have said. Then later on, I realized I said just wait, my relationship with my sister was broken. Why? Just because the car was scratched. The car can be repaired, it can be replaced, it can be rented again but my brother's feelings, you know that person. And here's what I've realized, you know that BMW, we haven't had it for a long time. It has been on sale for a long time, it may be rotting now. I don't know where it is but I realized this, my sister even if we happen to be, she is still my sister. My relationship with her, it will still remain the same and the thing is being replaced, repaired but the feelings of other people, sometimes it is not repaired and forever with a scar.

What's my point?

Sometimes, we people, we love things and then use people. It was just sad when In the wake of taal volcano eruption, the other people, what are they doing? They hoard the mask then sell higher. The excuse of many people, that's really capitalism. It's being business minded, being resourceful, law of supply and demand but you see at the end of the day, is profit really even more important? Is wealth even more important? Are things even more important? Or is people more important?

My prayer is that we fully realize that people are more important than stuff. So you know, it's funny because here's what happened, a few weeks ago I was the one who collided. I was at the stop light, I was hit by a truck from behind, I was doing nothing I just stopped then I was suddenly hit.

When I went down, I saw something big but could fix it and then you know what my initial reaction was that "Am I angry?" It's annoying because I stopped, but when I got there, you know the truck driver just scratched his head and he said "I'm sorry I didn't see it." and then I just said to him "Are you okay? Are you sleepy?" and by God's grace, I was not angry. Then I just said to him "Well, it's night again, so let's just go. Just be careful." "Then we parted ways, no police report, nothing. I said go ahead, I'll just fix it, it's also about 5k to 8k pesos.

However, when I came home, people around me said to me "Why didn't you teach me a lesson? You should be a policeman, he would pay for it. I just told them" For what else? It will take a while, I will also get tired." And at the end of the day, I realized this, I said if I just get angry with that person and I say bad things just for the amount of five thousand pesos, that's a pity. Because I believe I have no business owning that car.If that car will own me and will make me hurt another person's feelings. Now I'm not saying na wag kayong magalit but It's just that I'm saying that when you step back, I hope that you will realize that in life, people should always be more valuable than stuff, than things.

And today, my prayer is you put people over things because if people is your priority, everything else will follow.

Thank you for reading 😉