The lady took her niece's hand and ushered her to sit next to her. She was in her late fifties. Her hair was gray and there were some wrinkles under her eyelids, despite all that, she looked firm and commanding. She was rich, famous and powerful. Her husband died ten years ago leaving her no kids but a great fortune. She has been managing this for a long time. The companies that deal with the petrol were more than five major ones. Two in America, one was in Britain. For the other two companies, one was in the gulf area and another one was in Venezuela. There were also the branches for those companies scattered all over the world. she wanted to train her niece to take care of this huge responsibility.
Her niece was seventeen and she wanted her to understand how to manage such huge companies after her death. She was telling her about power. The girl was thinking that money was the power. Her aunt told her that money was only a mean to get you somewhere. Power is the target. If you own the power, money can come easily. The aunt was hoping for the head of the parliament. She was elected as a member six years ago, and she was trying to get to that post since then. That is why she wanted her niece to think about power. But her niece is absolutely different from her. She thinks money is power. You can buy voters to elect you and vote for you. Or you can pay to get whatever you desire, as long as you have the ability to pay for it.
The girl came and sat beside her aunt. It is useless to discuss the matter with her. Each party is convinced with his own ideas. The aunt started to tell her niece to think about power seriously. There is something which cannot enter the little head of that girl. She thought to herself, we have more than fourteen companies all over the world. Our monthly net profit is nearly more than one seventy million dollars a month. My aunt is driving me crazy. What does she need? What is there to be put into consideration?
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Thank you dear Salah Gammaa
Nema na shemu Maja! You are most welcome, haha.
I have just red some thoughts about power and money on web Center for action and contemplation and I thought It would be ok to share some of it:
money has only the power that we assign to it, and we have assign it immense power. we have given it almost final authority. we have made money more important than we are given it more meaning than human life.
humans have done and will do terrible things because of money
they have killed for it, enslaved other people for it, and enslaved themselves to joyless lives in pursuit of it . . .
we all, at one point or another. have demeaned and devalued ourselves, taken advantage of people or engaged in other actions we are not proud of in order to get or keep money or power we believe it can buy
Hvala vam puno Maja, I really appreciate sharing those points with us. They are very useful indeed. We do strange things for money. We almost forgot ourselves as human beings. Thank you very much my dear good friend.
Haha, hvala Maja, thank you again. Haha.
Wa aalaikum Assalam Maja, Slajem se. I believe so, my dear good friend. Once more, thanks for your kind and nice words.
Selam alejkum Salah.
Thank you for your story
it seems to me that kind of money only gets more money on
it is hard for girl to make change of her aunts opinion about power.
i wish her a wisdom on how to spend all that money
Zdravo ee hvala Maja Kulenovic. I agree with you. I also wonder if that kind of money can be spent quickly! Thanks for your nice comment on the blog.
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