So, yesterday my son was gifted a piggy bank by his grandparents, my in-laws. He was really excited with it and started putting coins and notes in it.
I believe, while the idea of storing things in piggy banks is right, storing paper money is not. Piggy banks were created to store treasure in it.
Now, can paper money be called a treasure? Certainly not. It can be called a value measurer of treasure. That means the moment you lock up money is the moment it starts to devalue. In other words, the moment we see it as treasure and try to cling on to it too much, it starts devaluating in it’s worth. Money can also apparently be called a treasure if invested. Locking up in piggy bank or anywhere else is not investment though. Your current value must go up compared to the one you invested before is the basic reason to invest. However, we could argue that value actually appears to go up in numbers rather than anything else.
The point here is that any object say gold, land, tech, skill, intellectual property or any other thing whose value is being measured by money and is steadily going upwards can be called as treasure.
I want to teach this thing to my son to be honest. But I don’t know how as he’s just 4 right now. But I’d like for some ideas to come from people so that I or my wife can make an attempt atleast. Maybe, telling him to put something else other than money would be a start.
What though is the question !?
P.S. Please don’t tell me ‘gold coins’ ?
Om Shanti….?