It amazes me that one could walk through life and feel that has nothing, yet be wealthy and have all the commodities of this life.
Some people try to replace the gaps in their spirit by fulfilling their life with mundane or material things. But these people who portray a happy smile may as well feel complete lonely and empty inside.We see it through so many celebrities acting as if they have nothing in this world. They may have all that wealth one dreams of, but they sometimes have lost touch with the simple things of this life that can make one more happy than just money.
Does anyone want to be rich and own a castle if there is no one to share it with? Would’t you change all the money you have if you could choose that or losing a loved one, for example?
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...you could either save a life or kill someone with one same rock. Things are there in this world, and will always be there, the secret is on how we use these things and what do we do with them. We cannot put or hold gold or dollars in our hearts, we can only put and hold the love we give and receive.
Why is it that money can’t always buy happiness? Money is not evil, I believe. Money is there to help us achieve our dreams. The mistake comes on how we use money and on which level we put the importance of money against the importance of sharing precious moments with the loved ones Money is a tool that can take us to achieve what we want in life or to lose everything we love. When we acquire a property, something we work hard for, maybe a dreamed house, we think we are going to be happy and so we focus on just making enough money to get that. We will probably be happy, because we will be achieving a goal or a dream. But what is the real joy in there? The house in itself or the feelings we get by working towards our dream.
Material things are only mass that is there, it makes us dream. Happiness is not the material thing, happens is the feeling of working in making a dream come true. So what happens when we have the dreamed house and years go by and that house doesn’t make us feel so euphoric or happy as in the past? We will probably want something else, a bigger house or maybe a nice car to park in the drive way. Money can be there making us dream, but we need to be healthy even when we dream.
Dreaming about material goals is not bad. Humans will always try to achieve more. We just need to remember that unless we keep things in balance, we will never be happy. We can’t enjoy the house for example if along the road, while trying to achieve our dream, we were so obsessed about making money that we forgot the essential things of this life. We forgot to enjoy the moments, our family, our friends, our loved ones -what money can buy that? Now, you can see so many rich, wealthy people stuck in loneliness or spiritual misery. Why is that, if they can buy anything they want? Maybe because those people didn't understand that only the things that we can’t buy with money are the things that brings us joy, because it fills the spirit, the things that make us feel warm, in peace, in love. Happiness is not in the money, happiness is the feelings we feel.
But we may still think that we will be happy if we are rich. Wrong. We are only going to be happy when we understand that happiness is a state of mind, and we are the owners of our own minds. The thoughts we put in our minds determine the way we feel and act.
Dream healthy, achieve your goals, but never leave behind those things that cannot be bought with money, the moments of love, the family, our friends.
Happiness is on the feelings we feel. Never let that money steal your feelings.
