Why do people run after money? Why do we make money our primary goal in life?
I have been asking these questions myself for a long time now. I haven’t found the answer yet but I am going to discuss what makes think that money is more important than anything else. And this is just my perspective on how I look at the money and wealth in general. This can vary from person to person but hear me out and think about it for a second before you curse me for this.
I have been running after the money for a long time now (I still am). It is primarily because of my childhood. I come from a middle class family where my father brought the primary source of income and we didn’t have the luxury of going out or buying things that we need (Note: not the things that we want). My father made sure that I get the best education possible and worked very hard to pay for my education. And I am grateful for that but it sucked the life out of me to be where I am today. In the process of making money, I lost lot of things in life. I tried lot of things during my college to make money and failed miserably. At last, I got the job as Software Engineer and I worked very hard to be where I am today and make good amount of money.
When I used to make 40k INR per month, I used to compare myself with the person who is earning 60K. When I got hike and was earning 60k INR per month, I used to compare myself with the person who is earning 80K. I don’t know if it’s just me or everyone, but will we ever be satisfied with the amount of money that we are going to make? I am not sure, but will we be happy if we are good with the amount of money that we make currently? I think so. Because mainly people think money=success and money=happiness, which is not true in most of the cases. I say, being true to your self and being happy with what you have is success and happiness.
Let me ask you a question, what makes you happy?? If you could have all things in the world that you want, will you be happy? I want lot of things in life but in search and pursuit of those things, Am I missing out enjoying and living life to the fullest today? Every week, on monday I start counting days to friday and when friday finally comes, I start looking for ways to enjoy which are temporary but in long term, it is keeping me the loop of that monday to friday. And I know that to earn money we need to work from monday to friday 9 to 5. Not everyone could leave their job and start living. So, I thought what could be the best that we can make out of everyday to enjoy and keep living like we want to. I have made a schedule of everyday that I mostly stick time where I have given time for things that I enjoy, things that keep in shape, things that makes some money (9 to 5 job) and give some time for family. I don’t say that this works all the time for me as well, there are some days when I still feel low but I kept moving and sticking to schedule to make most of the day.
I know I have taken the topic from one end to the another end but I feel like it is important to tell how we keep money as our primary goal in life and lose out opportunities to live life to the fullest.
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