Less money, more honey

I’ve been travelling around Europe and it was a revolution in my life.
After 24 years living in the same city, going to the same places and seeing the same people, I was fed up. And this trip was a positive shock in the way I see life.
For the first time, I could compare several places and see the differences. Watch their way of life and link all the facts around me. Using deduction to learn more and more about each city.
I went to Berlin, Stocolm, Paris, Bratislava, Milan and Palermo. And at the end of the trip, i looked back and one thing called my attention: the cheaper is the city, the nicer is the people.

In the cheapest places i could meet lots of people, had long conversations about everything. And i mean qualified and creative people, such as movie producers who travel around the world working, actors, economists, phisicists, architects, science teachers. People with great minds, who know the importance of sharing thoughts, having deep conversations and learning with other people. Even with unknowns, born in third world countries of South America. They know how this is priceless.

The first cheap city i fell in love with was Berlin. Cheap because of several facts, as all it’s history of conflicts. It was a dangerous place for people to live and for companies to invest. At anytime a bomb could be dropped in the factories and the employees. So, Berlin was forgotten by the money for decades. Isolated from the rest of the world by political issues. Completely shreded by the bombings and the city wall.

Lots of reasons that made the berliners get used to live without money. In addition, what is money for people who couldn’t see their parents, their wifes, their children. For people who didn’t have the freedom to walk all over their own city? The emotional pain was even worst then the financial one.
So, with the falling of the Berlin Wall berliners started to have more freedom. They started to paint, sing, use their minds to produce whatever they wanted. It was all about passion, about redemption.

Even with the political improvements, Berlin is still recovering itself and don’t give much money to Germany. Munich and other conservative cities give way more, with their tipical german life style. Different then berliner creative scene. A world center of art, architecture, music and cinema.
So, because of their past of war, suffering and lack of freedom they needed to express all their emotions when segregation and opression set them free. They needed more then seek money and a safe life style, with a safe job and money to spend in cars and plasma tvs.

They needed to open the wings of their souls and let all their emotions fly. No filters, no walls. No money.

And 20 years after they started to rebuild their economy, they still don’t have much money to think about. Because everytime they buy something, they have to think of smaller amounts of money. Beer, Kebabs and transport are way cheaper then London, for example. And the less money ocupies their minds, the more they will have space in it to think about wathever they want. Each pence they don’t need to pay means less money inside their minds. Less money they have to worry about.

So, the more money people need to live, the more money ocupies their brain and contaminates their thoughts.

The amount of money in the mind, brought by the need of money, contaminates a lot or a little what people think. It’s more difficult or less dificult to avoid money in one’s thoughts.
When people need 1 pound to buy a beer, teorically, they will think more about money when choosing their friends, when having a conversation or thinking about their goals in life. As we can see everyday people that don’t talk with someone who don’t wear fancy clothes or have a lowly job.
And the person who spend 0,76 euros will be more truethful, more human, fairer. Will look into one’s heart, to one’s ideas and intentions. Will tell people real opinions about other people thoughts and about life. Will seek more then simply money. Will seek wath they really want, in the bottom of their hearts.
It’s Matts, Phisics.

As i i’m living in London, i can give you some good british examples to ilustrate my theory: Macmillan as a Prime Minister, in the early sixties. While England was suffering with a severe economic crisis, the biggest music revolution took Place. Beatles, Rolling Stones and all this crew.
In the eighties, the lack of money triggered the last big change in music: the punk rock movement. Paul Simmonon was living in Brixton, one of the poorest areas in London, and the rest of the The Clash use to live in a squat (houses people break in and stay for free. Closely related to english poverty, they joined the Sex Pistols to make a revolution. It was just their way of thinking during the rough times.
They didn’t care about the system because they weren’t inside the system.

So, if we need it to much money has the power to control our mind and don’t let us fly. Understand people by what they really are.

I want a world whit less money and more trueth. But i don’t want people to be alienated, because we live in a world of money. Which has been growing like this since five hundread years ago, whit the begining of mercantilism.
But how?

By decreasing the amount of money we need.
By travelling whit couch surfing, not having to pay a pound for staying. Just having to exchange other kind of currency. Experiences, words, love.
By travelling whit Ryan Air, paying sometimes 1 pound to go from London to Berlin.
By using Skype to connect people from England to people in Brazil.
By internet’s amazing free services.
Travelling by bus instead of using the metro. Or even better, ridding a byke.
By going to free entry party, instead of paying 20 pounds just to enter into a party.
By eating noodles and eggs for a hole week.

Berlin made me realize these, because is soooo different then London. The Big Smoke is the capital of the world, in both senses. And it’s few skyscrapers are like antenas atracting all the money, building the world’s capital and becoming so much bigger then it’s 60 floors. Because when a city is too rich, the huge amount of money attracts our minds like magnet attracts metal.

Let’s spend less money, worry less about money and letting our minds think by itselves.

Let’s be truethfull. Let’s be free.