Lost in the Counting

The problem with money is that it is measurable, and like anything where the more or less of it is so evident we can extend its significance beyond a reasonable point so that more equals better and having is confused with being.  If I have or lack money is not a measure of my goodness, nor is it indicative of success in anything more than acquiring and holding onto money, and if this is so in terms of me it is as true of others.  My assessment of who they are ought not get tangled in what they have, the number of their dollars.  It is hard not to count and think that in the counting we have done something important.