Did You Know the Best Things in Life Are Free?
Nature’s ever-changing movie scenes don’t cost a cent
My title comes in part from the first line of the song Money, written by Motown founder, Barry Gordy, in 1959, and released by the Beatles in 1963:
“The best things in life are free,
But you can keep ’em for the birds and bees,
Now, give me money (That’s what I want)”
The pursuit of money as a path to happiness and contentment is not a sentiment I endorse. Throughout my adult years, I’ve accepted you need money to pay the bills, but I never worshiped it or craved material possessions.
In my early teens, I was keen to save enough pocket money to buy the latest seven single, but that’s excusable. Listening to music at any age uplifts our hearts and souls.
(If you don’t know what a seven single is, please look it up or ask your grandma.)
Apart from music, the rest of the best things in life are free.
Like laughter, love and kindness, birds and clouds and trees, and breezes that caress your tresses. Or the petrichor drifting through the window as I meditated yesterday to the sound of gentle rainfall.
