DOES MONEY CREATE PROBLEMS ?

                                       

                "It gives  me Joy more than Millions"
 -------- This was basically the most important sentence I heard this week, my friend just texted me this, and it is so relevant right now. He basically was referring to his passion, what he loves doing, Music. It has a whole lot to do with my post today.
    
   "I'm tired of Suffering, my parents give me little, how can I survive ?" A good looking, young, (probably in her mid-twenties), girl was complaining bitterly to her friends at a local eatery I was at. Her voice got louder by the second, and people started giving her a look of dissent. I was interested, a tad bit, and I was sitting just next to her. She talked of how she had attended three different universities, and how she failed woefully in all. She kept blaming her parents, but I could not see reason. " See my friends nah, they dey drive car up and down, na their papa buy am for them", she spoke in broken English. She continued "They don't suffer, I'm eating from hand to mouth, they send me just 5k twice a month, they send them that in a day, I have tried". A well-meaning young girl, who came with her I guess, told her "You should find something to do.", a young man sitting close by said "Ah! Leave her! Leave Gbemi ! She can never start something and finish it successfully, not always prepared to go the full mile !!" He spoke with so much hurt, like it was a burden to him. She breathed a huge sigh, and shouted "You can never understand, my dad needs to get a better job, my mum needs to start working, they need to help me" and she stood and left. I had one question burning inside of me "How old was she?", and I asked one of her friends, he looked at me with a look as if to say "What is your business?", and answered "She's 25 in May".
     "25 ? Why is she still talking about her parents ? She needs a total re-evaluation of her life", I thought. Why would a grown woman, though still a student be so reliant on her parent?. This was a life full of lots of mistakes, excuses, one had failed to take on responsibilities. It was a lesson for me, A big one, I started thinking of ways to reduce my reliance on my parents,and take up responsibilities, at least I just turned 18, and an opportunity sure did come...
     Basically, my friend had found a little way to make money. He told me about it, and we told our mutual friend too. It was a business opportunity, and was really good for college students like us, little did I know it was the beginning of disharmony. There was an aura of competition, of soured friendship, of one person trying to get the better of, or outsmart the other.There was dishonesty, lies, back-stabbing, swindling,cajoling... Money does create problems ? Or does it reveal problems that existed before, but were laying low ?  It does, OR maybe doing business with friends isn't the best idea ? I had started worrying about what the other person was up to, and vice-versa. I became bored. I mean one day, I asked one of my friends involved in the little business cycle, "Are You Happy With Yourself ?'' He said, "No, I am Not, Money does not buy happiness, actually". It doesn't ? I thought to myself, probably yes. I mean, it was so engulfing that I didn't do the things I loved, what made me happy. I started avoiding my friends, I needed a full stop! Did I get that ? I think.
     What do you all think ? Does Money create problems ? SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCES !