Why Tight Fistedness is disposed

Why Tight Fistedness is disposed

There are sayings in almost every language that depict the virtues of being frugal. “Take good care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves,” is a saying that has been found acceptance by the English speaking community. It essentially means that if you are prudent in spending and do not get carried away with largesse, then you are likely to make your money count. Truly a wise and very sensible advice for anyone.
But there is a line, which, if your frugality crosses, it becomes tight fistedness. We all hate to lose money, but when you stop pulling out the wallet for those expenses for which you earned the money, the you are, in fact, turning from a prudent spender to a miserly loser. For a simple reason. Money was invented for transactions. Money needs to be earned for being used, not to be stacked away in some dark corner of a dark alcove.
There are some around us for whom money means everything. Money for them is not what money does, and Prof Francis A Walker’s most profound of saying, mean nothing to them. For them, manmade notes or coins indicating a value, mean more than the people who co-exist, extending a hand when you fall, giving you a shoulder to cry on and standing up for you when money fails to help. It means more to them than the water they drink or the air they breathe, even the sunlight that gives them light to see.
For these misers, the only truth is the rustle of the notes and the jingle of the coins. The feel secure only with the money in their darkened chambers and the chirp of the bird on the branch of the tree is nothing but nuisance. The cool breeze, to them is nothing more than a way of cutting down on power charges by avoiding turning on the electric fans. Just one thing turns them on and that is the chance of getting more of the same. Even the cry of a child in pain is less of a concern than the need to spend.
One thing they forget that like every human invention, the institution of “Money” can fail. It has in the past and it will in future. That is when the notes become, nothing more than printed pieces of paper. In reality, money earned with the right hand needs to be spend with the left. There is no harm in keeping back some for the rainy day, but what you stacked away will turn to dust and you will end with nothing, not even the love of others. For the believer, God created man to be the support of other men, not to hide in dark vaults clinging on to money.