Money, Wealth, Success and all that Jazz
Money, Wealth, Success and all the Jazz……
“Money is not everything”; “Money can’t buy love!”- Maybe or maybe not. Money! Just what is it? Why should it be everything or nothing at all?
Money…
Don’t ever disrespect money. It is anything but trivial. It is that single estimate of one’s capability. A man’s earning power, his value. It is that tool with which we quantify the use of a human’s body, mind. I am not making any references to such things that are abstract and not tangible as a soul. It is that value you attach too a product of utility. It is that bench mark that can e used and is used to differentiate nations, cultures, abilities, superiority or just plain old fashioned luck.
Why should any one pay me for my work? Why should I command a salary? Money is the standardised measure of a perceived value and the benefit of the existence of a product/human or something. It is the scale of your worth. Now doesn’t that appeal to you…YOUR WORTH! The feed for your ego, the justification of your being. The single most tangible resource of any value to you, YOU! It is that single fathomable achievement of your victory over oblivion.
Someone with a vast experience in affairs of life, money and everything that life has to offer after having born, told me that money is not all important and there is more to life than money. I am sure! But try telling that to a person who has gone hungry for a week because there is no food, try telling that to a boy who couldn't play because he couldn't afford the accessories of the sport, try telling that to a girl who is not confident of wooing her chosen boy because she can't afford the beauty parlour and is not confident that she is presentable! I have met these people and know what it is, now try telling me!
Wealth…
This is diverse aspect of one’s assets. It is the collective capability of an individual in the whole sphere of the strings that he can pull, aces that he can come up with, a slap that he can answer. Money, brain, people, family, innovative capability, differentiability! So is money important when you have different sources of wealth? Of course! You can’t have something of value if you cant trade it unless it is something abstract. Trade family, people? Heartless as it might seem, my statement, open your eyes. It is the reality, the real apt term to use. Whenever you fall back or have fallen back on the cushion of your family/their money/help, you are trading their contribution or just betting on the comfort factor of its existence on a particular situation. The important thing that experience might reveal to you is that wealth indeed need not have a positive influence on your existence. Forces of nature in terms of self concerned qualities have a different effect, just add in the adjectives that you may so desire…pardon the euphemism. Believe me we are all wealthy whether we like it or not.
Success…
The most sought after and a cliché, the raison d'être of life. The easily recognisable feeling but from the most intriguing source. The single individual feeling that annuls the necessity of the want of a human, depending on personal definitions of this word. Leaning on the way you perceive the feeling of success. Making money? Being wealthy in all its components? “Money can’t buy love!” Well why should you compare a physical entity with an abstract one? They may or may not be cause and effect. But this is what makes It difficult to describe this penumbra of the effects of the ambitions, views and individuality.
Success may be in your ability or accomplishment to make money, be wealthy, win a game, smile as you die, take pain, laugh, cry, kiss…anything. Sure money cant buy all these, it cant buy life…but my previous argument still holds.
Success can even be that smile on the one person who matters most to you, and knowing that you are the reason/cause/source of it, the difference that you have made or the feeling of contentment that you have brought with yourself.
Now what’s your quest? I don’t care much about wealth, I am yet to arrive in terms of money but from the last point I made about success, I deem myself successful…hey! What happened to fate, luck and destiny?
“Money is not everything”; “Money can’t buy love!”- Maybe or maybe not. Money! Just what is it? Why should it be everything or nothing at all?
Money…
Don’t ever disrespect money. It is anything but trivial. It is that single estimate of one’s capability. A man’s earning power, his value. It is that tool with which we quantify the use of a human’s body, mind. I am not making any references to such things that are abstract and not tangible as a soul. It is that value you attach too a product of utility. It is that bench mark that can e used and is used to differentiate nations, cultures, abilities, superiority or just plain old fashioned luck.
Why should any one pay me for my work? Why should I command a salary? Money is the standardised measure of a perceived value and the benefit of the existence of a product/human or something. It is the scale of your worth. Now doesn’t that appeal to you…YOUR WORTH! The feed for your ego, the justification of your being. The single most tangible resource of any value to you, YOU! It is that single fathomable achievement of your victory over oblivion.
Someone with a vast experience in affairs of life, money and everything that life has to offer after having born, told me that money is not all important and there is more to life than money. I am sure! But try telling that to a person who has gone hungry for a week because there is no food, try telling that to a boy who couldn't play because he couldn't afford the accessories of the sport, try telling that to a girl who is not confident of wooing her chosen boy because she can't afford the beauty parlour and is not confident that she is presentable! I have met these people and know what it is, now try telling me!
Wealth…
This is diverse aspect of one’s assets. It is the collective capability of an individual in the whole sphere of the strings that he can pull, aces that he can come up with, a slap that he can answer. Money, brain, people, family, innovative capability, differentiability! So is money important when you have different sources of wealth? Of course! You can’t have something of value if you cant trade it unless it is something abstract. Trade family, people? Heartless as it might seem, my statement, open your eyes. It is the reality, the real apt term to use. Whenever you fall back or have fallen back on the cushion of your family/their money/help, you are trading their contribution or just betting on the comfort factor of its existence on a particular situation. The important thing that experience might reveal to you is that wealth indeed need not have a positive influence on your existence. Forces of nature in terms of self concerned qualities have a different effect, just add in the adjectives that you may so desire…pardon the euphemism. Believe me we are all wealthy whether we like it or not.
Success…
The most sought after and a cliché, the raison d'être of life. The easily recognisable feeling but from the most intriguing source. The single individual feeling that annuls the necessity of the want of a human, depending on personal definitions of this word. Leaning on the way you perceive the feeling of success. Making money? Being wealthy in all its components? “Money can’t buy love!” Well why should you compare a physical entity with an abstract one? They may or may not be cause and effect. But this is what makes It difficult to describe this penumbra of the effects of the ambitions, views and individuality.
Success may be in your ability or accomplishment to make money, be wealthy, win a game, smile as you die, take pain, laugh, cry, kiss…anything. Sure money cant buy all these, it cant buy life…but my previous argument still holds.
Success can even be that smile on the one person who matters most to you, and knowing that you are the reason/cause/source of it, the difference that you have made or the feeling of contentment that you have brought with yourself.
Now what’s your quest? I don’t care much about wealth, I am yet to arrive in terms of money but from the last point I made about success, I deem myself successful…hey! What happened to fate, luck and destiny?
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