Can't buy me love.

If you have turned on ESPN at least once in the past month, you will have noticed that it has been heavily covering Lebron James' free agency. Last Thursday while watching his press conference he stated that he was opting for the team who would be offering him less money. Instead of making well over $100 million in the next 7 years, he will be making just shy of $100 million...okay really?! First, how nice of him to give up a few million dollars that he will probably never use in his lifetime anyway........ Second, let's think about this for a minute. One hundred MILLION dollars....in seven years. I will most likely never see 1 million dollars in my bank account in my lifetime, let alone one hundred million! Here I am, a starving college student working my tush off to just get by, and Lebron James will do next to nothing and make more money than I could ever dream of. Where is the fairness in that?

I can promise you that he will never use all of the money he makes in the next seven years, not to mention what he has made since he was drafted into the NBA. So, why not cut that salary and give it to people who need it? We have citizens of the United States who are eating out of trashcans and living in cardboard boxes who would do nearly anything just to have the smallest fraction of his income. We have soldiers overseas that won't have a shower for 7 months at a time, don't sleep because the temperature is so cold and their blankets are paper thin, soldiers who will only speak to their families once every month (if that) and are eating meals that don't even come close to providing them with the nutrition they need. If anyone deserves that money, it's the people who are risking their lives every day and night to make sure that people like Lebron James have the freedom to play basketball. It makes me sick to think that our economy is in the shape that it is in, and we have people who are making enough money to actually make a difference and instead of helping, they sit on it and boast about the fact that they have more money than they know what to do with.

Money can't buy me happiness. I am rich with the things in life that don't cost a dime, and I do believe that the best things in life aren't "things" at all.

Bottom line, money is good...but the love of money is a major source of evil in society. People will kill for it. People spend it on horrible things. Some people are greedy and can never get enough. It is the most powerful tool in our possession because it enables us to do pretty much whatever we want to do. I think that if we changed our views of money the world would be a lot different. Instead of asking ourselves "How much money do I need?", we should ask ourselves "What do I want to accomplish in my life, and how much money will it take?"