Is money important?
Based on www.vabhatt16.blogspot.com - entry of Jan 16, 2007
Life is how one perceives it to be.The words like satisfaction, happiness, growth etc. are only mapped in monetary terms by most of us [which so far includes me too].But, as Saint Karib has rightly written, "PANKI BADHE NAVSE, GHARSE BADHE DAM, DONO HATH ULECHIYE, VOHI SAJJANKA KAM", that is, A gentleman should THROW money out of home like a sailer would throw out water from his boat.Actually, we think, all our problems are solved by money. Partly, it may be true as money has the capacity to solve many problems, but then, how can we forget that each EXTRA rupee brings EXTRA problem with it too!Actually speaking, there are three ways to look at money in life.
First is, think of those people, who live below poverty line [BPL]. They have to manage their food daily and have nothing like SAVINGS or PORTFOLIO etc!-the people who earn far less than us. Second is, people who are earning almost as much as us..typical middle-class people with one person earning-the people who always think to buy things on installments/EMIs. Third, are the people far richer than us, the people who have lots of money to waste and invest. They have so many bungalows and cars. Based on this classification, we cannot guarantee that so called upper class is always happy and so called middle or lower middle class is not happy.
Actually, I had a friend, named Bhargav Pandya, who is a lecturer in Finance but has got a tremendous reading and is a very philosophical guy worth meeting. He always says, "Think of this poor people who have even no bread to eat and thank god that we are so lucky that we have got a home to live, a monthly income that is sufficient money. We don't need to think what we will eat after a few hours! and I tell you, these thoughts do make you relieved and thankful to god."Well, this is one way to look at the importance of money in our life. Once again, I do not insist that everyone should agree with my thoughts...Pathik, Jan 19, 2007, 2.10 PM, IST.
Life is how one perceives it to be.The words like satisfaction, happiness, growth etc. are only mapped in monetary terms by most of us [which so far includes me too].But, as Saint Karib has rightly written, "PANKI BADHE NAVSE, GHARSE BADHE DAM, DONO HATH ULECHIYE, VOHI SAJJANKA KAM", that is, A gentleman should THROW money out of home like a sailer would throw out water from his boat.Actually, we think, all our problems are solved by money. Partly, it may be true as money has the capacity to solve many problems, but then, how can we forget that each EXTRA rupee brings EXTRA problem with it too!Actually speaking, there are three ways to look at money in life.
First is, think of those people, who live below poverty line [BPL]. They have to manage their food daily and have nothing like SAVINGS or PORTFOLIO etc!-the people who earn far less than us. Second is, people who are earning almost as much as us..typical middle-class people with one person earning-the people who always think to buy things on installments/EMIs. Third, are the people far richer than us, the people who have lots of money to waste and invest. They have so many bungalows and cars. Based on this classification, we cannot guarantee that so called upper class is always happy and so called middle or lower middle class is not happy.
Actually, I had a friend, named Bhargav Pandya, who is a lecturer in Finance but has got a tremendous reading and is a very philosophical guy worth meeting. He always says, "Think of this poor people who have even no bread to eat and thank god that we are so lucky that we have got a home to live, a monthly income that is sufficient money. We don't need to think what we will eat after a few hours! and I tell you, these thoughts do make you relieved and thankful to god."Well, this is one way to look at the importance of money in our life. Once again, I do not insist that everyone should agree with my thoughts...Pathik, Jan 19, 2007, 2.10 PM, IST.
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