The marketplace(Part Two)

I wrote the part one of this article yesterday. I had to stop halfway as I was feeling really sleepy and it would have been too long if I had continued anyways. So, I thought to finish it today.

In the first part, I talked about different market settings and how they definitely reflect some scenarios in our everyday living and lessons we ought to learn from them. Here's the link to the first part https://read.cash/@Talon/the-marketplace-part-one-8e1cc567

I also observed that in the market place, whilst a lot of activities are concurrently going on, everybody aren't doing the same thing. Everybody is in the market, but some are buying, some are selling, some are moving goods short distance, while some are moving goods over long distance using vehicles, some are collecting levies, some are marketing for others and some are there to steal; yes steal. In a funny way, every group has to do what they do for the market to be what it is and for the market to work.

We also see this in life generally. We are all here on earth, we all want to live, and comfortably, but we are not all here to do the same thing. Basically, we all have different reasons for being born to the earth. In a funny way, everyone of us is like a cog in a giant machine.

Each cog, bolt and screw have different functions, and have to do it for the whole machine to work as intended. In the same vein, we all can't be doctors, lawyers or laundry man. We all have our different functions and the world will only work as it is meant to be if we do our task and do it well.

Why does this matter? It matters because it's sad to see people looked down on others because of the nature of their job. In the true sense of things, the bricklayer is just as important as the president, but we have developed a system where we have removed the dignity in certain jobs. This is due to the human tendency to create groups and class in every area of life.

As a result, those on the top of the food chain want to feel all mighty by making those down the chain feel like they are worthless. This is unkind and unfair. We all can't be big inventors or entrepreneur. There's nothing wrong in coming to this earth, leading a very simple and supposedly 'inconsequential life' and going home to wherever you believe we go when we die.

One of the best things I notice is that at the end of the day, no matter how the market day is, everybody will still have to go back home at the end of the day. They will go home to take stock of what they had done or achieved that day.

In the same vein, whether we believe or not, the earth is like a market to us and eventually we will have to go back home and give or take stock of how we have lived our lives. Now, where you will happen to be 'home' to you totally depends on what your religious orientation is.

The lesson to learn here is that we ought to strive to live right. We should desire to live lives that we would be proud of and that will give us peace when it's time to make that transition between the world of the living and the world of the dead. This should be the drive behind everything we do and desire in our lifetime.

I hope you learnt something from this article. Thanks for reading