By Zakaria
When a woman starts talking about love and saying it is not about money, I get pissed off. I do not completely lose my head — I just get a little terse. Since when did it cease to be about money?
If it is not about money, why do loaded guys have more access to women than some of us? Only a guy who has not suffered at the hands of the wealthy in his interactions with the daughters of men can afford to believe such adamant falsities.
I also used to believe the women and their claims of ‘it’ not being about money until recently, when my cousin sat me down and told me the truth. He told me how important it is for a man to have money if he is to succeed in sweeping women off their feet.
“Zak, my brother, once you have the cash, women will force their hearts to love you. Let us be real, just get money and see whether those daughters of Eve, as you love to call them, will not wrestle to have a piece of you.”
“Where there is money, women gather. And, seek ye the kingdom of money fi rst and all those other things like women will be added unto you,” he quickly added.
When I thought about it, I realised that a woman who claims love is not about money, is usually the same who harbours dreams of hooking up with a guy who can take her to the grandest of beaches, exotic hotels and spoil her with the nicest gifts.
And when I dug deeper, I realised that for the few years that I have been living on this planet, I have never come across a woman whose dream husband is the kind who is perpetually broke; or the kind who will marry her and take her to some remote village to live as husband and wife in a manyatta.
So, I’m no longer going to entertain the notion that love is not about money.
In fact, I also think it is a ploy some women use to hoodwink us into thinking that they will have mercy on our pockets when we hook up with them. But trust me, the day you start believing those women, they will drain your pockets and in such a subtle way that you will not notice that the havoc in your pocket is caused by their insatiable souls.
That is why I pity men who believe them and have now resorted to using sweet nothings to fuel their love, yet if they had a little more money, it would add some fi re in the mix. No problem, you can continue fuelling your love with sweet words and empty promises.
But as for me and myself, we shall continue hunting for the cash and just when you run out of promises, we who have been making cash shall deliver the goodies and carry away the prize. In that vein, as a young man that looks beyond the horizon,
I have started preparing for the future. I know that issues to do with women and their lifestyle will cost a lot more dime in the future.
But even then, there will still be some of them claiming that it is not about money. So the earlier I learn to ignore their unfounded claims and come to terms with reality, the better.
So, later when your woman begins chasing after my cash because you, the man in her life, is too broke for life, please do not say I never warned you.