Money is everything?

Gathering with my friends during this Chinese New Year, I got various conversations in these few days. Healthy discussion about some interesting topics can stimulate our mind often and challenge our worldview most of the time. It is a great challenge that I welcome all the time.

“Money is everything” was one of the memorable topics that I discussed with my friend. I totally disagree with that. To me, money is just a tool, a measurement of economic value. He came out this statement:” Man cannot live without money; there are many things money can purchase for you, only 1% of things in the world you cannot purchase them with money. Money can help you to solve many essential problems and help you having an easier life. Many families got problems because of their financial insufficiency.”

I would like to say that money is something essential to solve some daily and essential problems in your life such as clothing, food, housing and transport. Those are the problems that the refugees in the world face. They don’t have houses with roof, not even good clothes and sufficient foods. If you have money, of course you won’t be one of them.

However, possessing a lot of properties and money may not always bring you good. If you do not manage your money properly, it can curse you instead of blessing you. I have seen many rich people they don’t take care of their health properly, they got drunk often every night; don’t bother having a healthy life style. Eventually, they faced a lot of health problems and that was too late to give them any effective treatment by the time they realized. In this case, money is not health.

Besides that, money can bring a relationship disaggregation. The more money you possess, the more options in life you have. Temptations come when you don’t make a wise decision. Rich guys who like to go clubs seldom manage to secure the feeling of security of their wives. Other ladies would like to find the opportunity to get advantages from them. They are attractive and seductive for they are fresh and young to the rich guys. It is really tempting for guys getting into a relationship with fresh and young girls for it is full of surprises and mysteries. Eventually, this would lead the relationship of the married couple to serious destruction. In this case, money is not love.

There are still many things that money cannot replace them. I am not saying that I don’t need money at all; I do need it of course. But I am trying to say that money should never be our center of life. We shouldn’t be the salve of money; instead we should be a smart money manager so that it won’t bring harm to our lives. Money doesn’t always bring goods; it depends on the nature of the persons. We should examine our nature well before we could have a lot of money to use.