Is money to blame or is it the person who spends it?
November 17th 2008 05:54
The talk of money is never far from anyones lips, especially at the moment with all the crashes occuring around the world and the belts being tightened around the home. But I wonder if money really is as bad as what people make out it is, or whether its more about who's hands it falls into and what those people do with it.
I know poor people who are rich in happiness, but I also know poor people who are miserable and spend their lives worrying about where their next dollar will come from. Then again I know grossly rich people who are happy - they don`t splash their money around, live within the means of their working class neighbours and help out a few stragglers whom they meet along the way. Then I also know grossly rich people who spend their who lives worrying about protecting their mounds of gold and spending ridiculous amounts of money on things that have to be kept in vaults, shoes that remain in their boxes and clothes that have never seen the light of day.
So it would seem that everyone is in the same boat isn`t it? Is it really as idealised as what we make it? That money is the root of all evil and people who are poor are the truly happy ones in this world? Take money out of the equation, they are living with what they know - how can you yearn for a plasma screen TV when you don`t even know what electricity is? Yet they may yearn for the ox that the man 6 fields across has. It`s all relative isn`t it? It`s not just about the money, it`s about everything in life and what you want, what you expect and what you do with what you have.
SO what would you do if you could have all the money you wanted? The reason why I posted this on this blog, which is essentially about travel, is because my ideal would be to travel the world... meet people, talk about life, experience different cultures... that`s where my money would going.
I know poor people who are rich in happiness, but I also know poor people who are miserable and spend their lives worrying about where their next dollar will come from. Then again I know grossly rich people who are happy - they don`t splash their money around, live within the means of their working class neighbours and help out a few stragglers whom they meet along the way. Then I also know grossly rich people who spend their who lives worrying about protecting their mounds of gold and spending ridiculous amounts of money on things that have to be kept in vaults, shoes that remain in their boxes and clothes that have never seen the light of day.
So it would seem that everyone is in the same boat isn`t it? Is it really as idealised as what we make it? That money is the root of all evil and people who are poor are the truly happy ones in this world? Take money out of the equation, they are living with what they know - how can you yearn for a plasma screen TV when you don`t even know what electricity is? Yet they may yearn for the ox that the man 6 fields across has. It`s all relative isn`t it? It`s not just about the money, it`s about everything in life and what you want, what you expect and what you do with what you have.
SO what would you do if you could have all the money you wanted? The reason why I posted this on this blog, which is essentially about travel, is because my ideal would be to travel the world... meet people, talk about life, experience different cultures... that`s where my money would going.
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