I used to hate money.

It’s because it was so painful to make them.

I really resented how I needed it.  Making money was such a difficult, excruciating process that I longed to just get rid of the whole monetary system.

Did I mention that I’m a Star Trek fan?

Well, nowadays, I’m making my more peace with money.  It didn’t happen over night, there are still tensions in our relationship. We’re working our kinks out.

But you know what’s funny?  As I traded jobs (and I had many) to the ones I liked better, so did my pay.

Of course, I like jobs that pay well.  But I have turned down jobs that paid more, because I didn’t like what I had to do.  So it’s not entirely true that I like my job simply because it pays better, though that’s part of it.

The job I have now rocks.  I love it, and that’s saying something because I’ve been there like 6 months now.  Usually by now, I start getting bored or tired of it.  (The longest I lasted at a job was 2.5 years.  But it was way too long — I was fired at the end, because I was so unmotivated to work by then)

I still think that we can eventually exchange our currency and capitalism for a system that’s better.  But I can see how humanity’s not ready for that yet.

So I am making my peace with money.

I hope you can, too.