We all love money, including me. However, money isn’t everything. In comparison to money itself or anything it can be used to purchase, there are some things in life that are significantly more important.
In spite of the fact that we live in a capitalist society, the most valuable things in life are unaffordable. This is crucial to remember because it appears that more and more people are losing sight of it every year.
You can’t buy everything with money. The world’s richest person may still be missing these seven crucial items.
- Time.
The only valuable currency on earth, and the only currency with true intrinsic value, is time. Additionally, it is the only form of money that you can only spend. Nobody can steal, borrow, or alter time.
No matter how much money you have, the time you have already spent is time that you will never get back. You should bear this in mind the next time you decide to waste your time.
Make every moment of your one life and one chance matter by making it all matter. If you run out of time, no matter how wealthy you are in the world, your money is worthless.
- Love.
Sex can be purchased. Intimacy is a commodity. The boyfriend/girlfriend experience is a commodity. However, since true love is always free, you will never be able to purchase it.
Finding love is actually made more difficult by money because it attracts suitors who are only interested in your financial situation.
Money tends to bring out the worst in people, including those who will lie to you or pretend to be your partner in order to gain access to your bank accounts. If anything, love and money are diametrically opposed.
- Happiness.
Everyone has heard that money can buy you a jet ski and that no one has ever been unhappy while riding one, but unless you intend to live on that jet ski all year round, money cannot buy happiness. I’m frequently left with the impression that the only way to be happy is to be content with yourself and your own company.
If not, your mood is ruined and your happiness is ruined by the fear of loss itself. You won’t be able to learn to be happy in almost any situation until you can learn to be happy without having any money in your wallet. You cannot buy happiness with money. In fact, it can make finding happiness very challenging.
- Courage.
Contrary to popular belief, you are neither born with courage nor are you born with any more or less courage than the next guy. We can all be brave and take chances to reap the most benefits.
Not every dangerous situation calls for courage. It may imply coming face to face with one’s irrational fears. Fear of failure, disapproval, and rejection are universal fears.
All of us have small worries here and there that, when added up, can make it challenging to live our lives. You must recognize that you already have courage because it is not something you can buy or sell.
- Intellect.
You can purchase any book in the world with money. It can help you get the best tutors, the best education, and the best opportunity to develop into a person of exceptional intelligence. The determination to put in the effort required to develop your intellectual capacity is something money can’t buy.
The reason most people lack intelligence isn’t that they lacked access to excellent educational opportunities; rather, it’s that they either didn’t value education or didn’t think they were capable of learning.
We live in a time when information is readily available and anyone, almost anywhere, can study anything they want in the comfort of their own homes. There isn’t any cost.
- Purpose.
Starting off, let me say that having money is not a reason to live that is worthwhile. It is merely a byproduct and serves no real purpose. Those who are extremely wealthy are not so because they merely set out to do so. Those times may have been different centuries ago, but they are no longer present.
These days, it’s much harder to make a significant amount of money; you now need to find a purpose. We are lost without a reason for existing. We are bewildered. We make poor choices, which causes us to live lives we vehemently detest.
Perhaps the most significant quality a person can possess is purpose. It’s not something you can purchase; rather, you must discover it within yourself.
- An inheritance.
Money is not a legacy, unless you’re George Washington. A life filled with ambition, successes, and failures produces a legacy. You see, very few people are aware that while people enjoy hearing about success stories, they also enjoy hearing about the struggles that led to those successes.
Nobody wants to listen to a story without a plot; what good is a race if there is only a start and a finish?
A life lived honorably leaves a legacy. People who try to comprehend what exactly was accomplished are left in awe by the life that was lived with such a strong sense of purpose and direction.
You must affect enormously large numbers of people with positive change if you want to be remembered after you pass away. While it’s not necessary, money can be the means of leaving a legacy; however, money cannot buy you a legacy.
