Money And Fate

Now and then a treasure of age-old coins and jewels is found in the ground, both here in Denmark or somewhere else. Some of these treasures are very rich and the one who buried them in the ground must have set real store by them. Unfortunately, he or she didn't get the chance to retrieve it or to tell about it to someone he or she trusted which means that it will end up in a museum, not even as the first one of its kind, but as one out of several. 

I wonder what happened to the owners of the treasure. Did they perish, e.g. succumb to sickness or get killed in a war? The most likely scenario is full of some kind of violence, either by nature or by humans, something that disrupted the lives of these owners who buried the treasure in order to keep it safe. Anyway, what happened was that the owners buried the treasure in the belief that they would be saved from the catastropies that threatened them, but sadly enough they were mistaken.

 

 

The whole family may have lost their social status once and for all by not knowing where this treasure was hidden. Someone who had lived a life in leisure at the top of society may have ended at the bottom. Perhaps the master became a servant/slave and the mistress became a servant, slave or even prostitute. Oh yes, that happened many times in history as these upheavals dug deep into the social layers, century by century. The rich got poor and thus the master became the slave. We ourselves may be the children of someone who experienced something like this themselves and we may also be the parents of someone who is about to experience the same now or in the future.

 

A friend of one of my late friends was the great-great-grandson of a man who was out of a very wealthy family, but he himself lost most of his money and nobody seemed inclined to help him out because he was such a squandering guy that he seemed quite hopeless. As it is, it turned out that he had his special nest egg, i.e. a lottery ticket which he was sure would come out with a large sum. He set all his hopes to this lottery ticket and when he was disappointed in these hopes he shot himself. That's not only sad, it's stupid, even more sad and stupid than burying one's riches in the ground without telling someone about it.