These days it seems that we are no longer concerned with the quality of things only with the quantity of them. We no longer savour what we have but want the next, the biggest, the brightest. No longer is a business started to make a living but a fortune instead. All the good that business brings to a community and country can so easily be lost when the money bottom line is more important than the social or ecological bottom line. This has been demonstrated drastically of late with the economies around the world where money was put first and foremost ahead of all else and the weight of that burden became too much to bear.
We want it to be made faster, ship it further, make record profits and we want to move onto the next thing; we want the latest of everything and we want it now. Trouble with that is there will always be ‘the latest thing’ so one can ever have it for more than a fleeting moment. Instead of getting the latest it seems we are getting lost in our own sense of lack. We want more because we feel a sense of emptiness, a yearning for something. What must be realised is that the stopper for the feeling of lack is not a new gadget or a bigger house but the growing of our own sense of self worth.
By wanting everything yesterday we live not in the present but in a future which may not always turn out like we think. If we are only concerned with acquiring money, we must now ask ourselves what exactly do we want the money for? How much do we actually need to sustain a lifestyle which will truly make us happy? Money is nice – I am quite fond of it myself – but I am fonder still of peace within myself, with feeling a unity with an energy greater than myself and with finding joy within life.
Ask yourself ~
How much income do you really need to live your life
according to what will make you truly happy or what you truly value?
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