Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

Ritsuko Araki

About money, there are some kinds of people in the world. People who can manage how to spend money well, people who waste their money, people who are rich originally, people who got poor suddenly, for example, by losing a job, and so on.

Under such a situation, some people lend money to somebody else and others borrow it. Lending and borrowing money are not always bad but not always good, I don't like these actions though. I think, normally, they are performed in trust. We can’t do these without trust, especially lending money. Who can lend money to people he or she can’t trust? It must be nobody.

But actually, neither a borrower nor a lender would feel comfortable in that situation because the action of borrowing could make the borrower nervous of the lender and, at the same time, the action of lending gives fear to the person who lends the money. Fear means, for example, something like worrying if he/she is sure to return the money to me or not, and when he/she will pay the money back to me, and so on.

My parents often say to me that one mustn’t lend money even to a very close friend and also if we lend money to somebody, we should think the money will never return to us. Lending is giving. I couldn't understand what they meant as a child but now, I really understand it because I know money sometimes makes people lose control and both lending and borrowing money sometimes causes a 

big problem and can bust up people’s relationship.

The most important thing for us is to control our financial conditions well by ourselves. If we can do it, we don’t need to lend or borrow money anymore. It leads everyone to happiness!!