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Are you squeamish about money grubbing? Do you hate the idea of bending your knees before Mammon? If your position isn’t a cover-up for being lazy, you might want to read this.
Firstly we did not bring anything besides ourselves into this world. Neither shall we take anything along as we leave this world. So money serves no purpose in terms of our intrinsic worth.
Money is only essential to us as far as we need to make a living. None shall dispute the fact. But how much? It is a question that has baffled mature and the wise, and fools alike. Unless we get the priorities in life early on we are likely to get lumped with all those who chase some thing or other merely because it carries a price tag. Only that the price we pay in the final analysis would prove too costly.
Secondly life is more to be desired than money. ‘The best things in life are free’ is an adage true even now. A day wasted is a day cancelled from our life. Our energy must be spent for sucking life to the bone and not accumulating money. Value of money drops as surely as our carefully planned career paths fall by the wayside. These are not in our control. Whereas this moment is ours. How we direct it shall decide value of our life. In short in order for a happy life we need to to rely on ourselves.
Thirdly You have laid the standard by which you measure the world. Those who respect your values will have to use the same standard if they need at a personal level, to get anywhere with you.
Finally ‘how to get more mileage with much less’ is certainly an advantage. In terms of economy and as a principle. Such a principle cuts out flab from your sense of values. You are not awed by flashy trappings of success that world may shake at you. Thereby you prove yourself as a person and not as an object.
Money is a thing same as branded products are things. Those hucksters who twist your arms so to speak to keep buying, see you as an object and not as a person worth knowing. They have nothing worth teaching you. You are a man or woman worth knowing since you know yourself. In withstanding their blandishments you have proved what is your worth and also saved yourselves the bother of clutter.
Tailpiece: Whoever heard of things righting themselves? When trouble convulses, be it in financial or in social sphere, a person is required to run things so mankind may get going. Who is best equipped for the job but one who knows the difference of things from people and jingle from the music of his or her soul?
benny