Everybody stereotypes the quote “Money is the root of all evil,” maybe because most of the news aired in the television and published in newspapers are all about violence and crime rooted from greed or love of money.
If money is the root of all evil, then what does the Seven Deadly Sins represent? Is it the people who commit such acts? Or the objects of desire that every human being wants? In Greek philosophy, men who are driven by their utter desire is at the lowest ranking of the citizen hierarchy. They do work because they want to achieve things and do things which they desire, not needed but they strongly want. If we relate the quote “Money is the root of all evil,” then by conclusion, we can say that it is us men who makes the root of evil grow. We need not to be greedy if we can settle ourselves to the contentment of simple things. If we have more than enough, we can share and give some that we don’t really need to the unfortunate through charity work.
In the recent tragedy that struck the Revilla siblings; I believe that it is their selfishness and greed which took control over their actions. It is from men, not from money which is only an object of necessity that became an object of desire. Everyone can control their desires, they may not or may permit it to rule over their will. In their story, they let the sin take over them and it bred the evil acts which was ended in a bloody vendetta.
Let us not see this as a negative plight of our country by means of conduct and behavior. But let this be a lesson for us that too much of everything will definitely lead into casualties. We must learn to keep our feet on the ground even when thousands of successes and victories come our way. We must learn to find the perfect equilibrium of desire and necessity in our lives. We can enjoy things in a much simpler way.
