Money matters whether you matter or not. Its manipulative powers matter the most, particularly when it is not your sweat-stained money. The commiserations like 'happiness hijacked by such money is short-lived' we hear very often. Such a windfall, however, causes the loss of self-respect and freedom as collateral damage.

They were on the verge of divorce. The husband constantly contemplated suicide because the loss of self-respect — in a matrimonial relationship, measured by respect in the spouse's eyes — was shameful enough for the husband.

How was the husband's self-respect bruised? Being a government employee, life for him was just pay cheque to pay cheque. This summer, the power load-shedding got worse, and unscheduled outages turned it even worse. The neighbours started having altern

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