NHG Money Respect Power

[TBM]

That is what it said on a headstone that my daughter saw at the cemetery yesterday, when they were there for a funeral. 

It made them spend much of the day wondering about the person.  And made them wonder what they would want on their headstones.  I don't think anyone came up with anything good, but they were all in agreement that it wouldn't be 'Money Respect Power'.

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That is odd is right.
Not what I'd want to be remembered for.
All I think is, "Money RESPECT POWER. You still died like everyone else in the end!"

[tarheels]

A friend of mine who's in his late 50s, early 60s told me a story about when he was younger. It was the Vietnam era and he was looking for answers about life and meaning. One night, he had the opportunity to go see an old man with a friend. This old man was the one of legend, the one who was an old man decades prior, who's just always been an old man. My friend thought, "If anyone knows the meaning of life, it's this guy! He's got to be a hundred years old. He'll have insight and know what's important." So my friend drove out to the country and visited this man in his cottage. He asked the old man what the most important thing in life was, what it was really all about. The old man told my friend to come closer and he raised his voice and said, "MONEY! Son, money is what it's all about. Get as much as you can. Everything else will take care of itself, but bills won't pay themselves."