Barter Trade; The New Friend Indeed

Barter trade is the exchange of goods or services for other goods or services according to the OXFORD ENGLISH MINI DICTIONARY.

We live in a world where BARTER TRADE is the only friend indeed. It's worrying how the "hands go, hands come" has become the anthem of many. Nothing now is given out for free. Everything given out is expected to either return in its original form or a different form. How lost love for one another is.

Right from home is our great friend, BARTER TRADE. Parents expect their wards to do everything they have asked them even when it's against the belief and choice of their wards just because they cater for them(their primary responsibility). Most wards have been threatened with no financial support, no inheritance, disowning all because they shared a different idea on the choice of Parents. Wards then have to trade with their parents. Financial support for the career they want, inheritance for the life partner they have chosen for you amongst a lot. Our beloved friend, BARTER TRADE is indeed our only true friend.

Employment is a very important child of BARTER TRADE and now the most heard National anthem is "Sex for Job". How dear this friend is to offer you a dying job for just few minutes of sexual pleasure. It's a great favour, he thinks. BARTER TRADE is the only true friend now who wants to help provided one is ready to play by the rules of the game. When the best are not actually the best but the rest.

"Use what you have to get what you want". Such a cheap but expensive quote. We live in a world where your intelligence, abilities, certificates end mostly at the feet of BARTER TRADE. To the trader, these are not the most needed commodities of trade but treasures of the vessel. How then can the best ever be the best.

We live in a country where certificates are important than capabilities, where talents are grounded into the mud, where the competence of most women are seen on hungry blankets, where the few that take the righteous path are left to a terrible fate. We live in a world where love is dead, where your abilities can only be known after studying bedmatics. We live in a world where nothing goes out for free. We live in a world, where the only true friend is BARTER TRADE.

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