HI, I'm a Mac

So i got a snazzy new laptop, I caved into the world of Mac. Cute little white MacBook. I can't help but admit that I feel slightly closer to being Carrie Bradshaw now (she had a Mac.) I'm now thinking about rearranging my room so that my desk is at my window, just like her. I feel like it will help my writing improve?

It is no surprise to anyone that we are in a recession. If you weren't aware of this then you obviously live under a rock and probably don't have Internet and probably aren't reading this. I feel lucky to be in college during this economic crisis because being at school is like being in a bubble. You aren't in the real world so it isn't directly affecting you, and you aren't around your parents to listen to how bad things are, etc. One thing we all have in common right now is the recession. No matter how stable you are, it is affecting you somehow. Innocent people are losing their jobs, losing their money, losing everything. I heard someone say that we did this too ourselves. That our country has become so money hungry that we brought this on ourselves. It is a pet peeve of me when I hear people say that money is the right of all evil. Wrong. People are the root of all evil. Money isn't the problem, it's who has the money that is the problem. My entire life I have been called a spoiled brat, and this makes my skin crawl. Spoiled I may be but brat I most certainly am not. I have seen really dirty people who have lots of money. I have also seen really good people with lots of money. There is a huge difference. The key to money is work, hard work. Money just happens to be the reward for hard work, but the problem comes when people take their focus from the work and get caught up in the money. It seems like common sense that if you build up a business and start making money, but then start taking vacations every month and never working anymore, your business is going to fail and your money is going to disappear. Money doesn't last forever. My Papa worked harder than anyone I have ever known and earned great rewards from it. But none of that mattered to him. He never sold his simple country home for a mansion, he never bought a fancy sports car, and he never ran off with a 20 year old blonde. This is how I was raised. You work hard and even though you earn great rewards, you never stop working. My dad is the perfect example of a good person with money. He is probably reading this and going to e-mail me and tell me that he doesn't have money because he always says that. But that's just another example of how much he doesn't care about material things. My dad getting up at the crack of dawn to work all day long is all I have ever known. Crazy it may be, but I have also seen and benefited from the rewards from his hard work. He works hard and earns great rewards, but he never stops working. God gave him a daughter to enjoy the material things in life for him. What people see is the rewards, but no one sees the work it took to get those things. Sure, I drive a nice car, all most people see when they look at my car is spoiled brat. No one ever stops to ask me the story behind it. You see, every time I sit in my car, I see cows, I see Thrift's ferry, I see tractors, I see Ace Hardware, I see my dad's office, I hear my papa's stories of working with his bare hands, I see my brothers getting up at 5am, I see me in a red vest, I see me folding statements, I see the hard work that happened so that I could drive a nice car. I can't help but smile knowing that I am so fortunate to be able to see first hand the true meaning of hard work. So this is why I get so angry when people say money is the root of all evil. The evil comes from how people handle money. If you stop working, you will stop making money. If you let money consume you, it will become evil. But if you understand the work that monetary benefits require, then you can be smart enough to not let money consume you. Money is not the root of all evil, people with money are the root of all evil.