Greetings!
The love of money has really killed the passion that we humans used to have in the past and this is just because of the competitiveness in our society right now.
In the past, it's passion that drives people to become what they have chosen to become in life, but that's in the past as the love of money has taken over from passion.
While growing up, we were all moved with passion to going to school and choose our field of study without the influence of money. Aside from this, those who we look up to are the ones we see with passion and this really paid off as we people were only driven with passion and nothing else.
I could remember how we used to sing a song back then saying,
“I am a lawyer in my country, everybody knows me well…”
If we look at this song very, it's born out of passion for what we would like to be in the future back then. Although some of us pursue it with passion, I can boldly say it's a few of us that could not pursue it due to unforeseen circumstances.
All I have said so far are back in the days when passion was the other of the day, not now when everything has changed that we now have people chasing after money and neglecting passion making passion have become the old story or ways of life.
Now, people venture into ministry just because there's tithes and offering. It's not like this in the past as people would not even want to answer him, but now the reverse is the case and this has led us to having fake pastors who are now defrauding people just to make their own money now causing chaos in the society.
The same thing above goes to all other professions such as medicine, law, teaching and so on. People now pick these different professions not just because of passion but because of the gain in it and that's why you will not see people applying for less paid professions when applying for the course in the higher institutions of learning.
In all these, we can now see that money has overridden passion and that's why we are where we are today. That's why we have difficulty in people even making progress in their profession and career as they get stalked when what they expect from business is not what they see or get from the business.
Now, the end result of this is that we no longer have best hands on these various professions, not only that, the services being rendered are not as beneficial and adequate as it supposed to be again.
The only way out of this is to groom the younger ones with passion for what they would like to do with their lives. Also, parents should not because of money distract or manipulate the passion of their wards or children as I have seen in many cases where parents choose courses for their children all in the name of money.
Furthermore, the government should also prioritize how to reward the services of these various professionals and this can be done through their enumeration and the likes. Also, the economy should be improved upon as all this would help us retrace our steps back to passion and not money alone.
In conclusion, money is good as we all work for money, but we should not work for money alone as passion would always help us where money fails.
This is my entry to week 190, edition 01 of the weekly Featured contest in the Hive learners community.
Thanks for reading.
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