#ShortStory

When I was growing up, school taught me how to solve equations, name the capital of Kazakhstan, and write essays about the French Revolution. But no one ever taught me what interest really is, how to save money, or why it's smart not to buy everything you want.

It wasn't until I got my first paycheck—and spent it all on things I didn’t even need—that it hit me: money is a whole subject on its own.

Funny, isn’t it? We spend our whole lives dealing with money, but school hardly teaches us how.

Unless you do economics, maybe… but even then, people say it’s more about graphs than your wallet.

If only we had a required subject called: "Money for Real Life."