Money:

a current medium of exchange in the form of coins and banknotes; coins and banknotes collectively.

I don’t carry around many coins or banknotes. When I pay for things, I often use a card or my phone.

In my apartment, there are no mountains of coins or banknotes. And, I don’t physically see the money I get paid from my day job. I sometimes see banknotes from gigs.

I know I need money to support a roof over my head, food, and clothes. And when I die, I won’t have much use for it anymore.

I think I see money as a form of mass, and with that mass I can create energy. I need energy to do things. So the more mass I ahve, presumably, the more energy capacity I have to do things.

Like you, I stress about money sometimes. Eventually, I won’t be able to work and I’ll need enough mass stored that I can convert into energy without work generating more mass.

What’s interesting to me — is that stressing about money causes me to use energy. I am using energy from my mass reserve thinking about my mass reserves. I’ll need to keep generating more reserves to make up for what I lost through stress and what I’ll need when I no longer work. I’m deploying a finite resource — energy — towards an abstract concept that I’m privileged to see as an abstraction.

So here I am thinking and writing, spending energy, about a thing that I sometimes stress about that I rarely physically see yet I need if I want to be able to maintain this blog and survive in the modern world.

For some, divorcing ones’s self from the grip money has on one’s life seems a wise move. Perhaps, the excess energy could be shared with those operating at a deficit. Not a political position, just my musing for the day.

Last modified on 2026-03-09