3 questions to help you study your relationship with money
If everything seems to be upside down, get it right again.
Well, what can I say about money other than it is necessary to have some?
We are supposed to work to get money, and there is no wrong in this.
Actually, the activity of working is so rewarding by itself that the money should be only a byproduct of it. Other than being our only motivation for living.
The work we do is what allows us to provide value to others.
We often identify ourselves by our occupation.
The more value you provide to others, the easier it is to receive for what you do. It is a relative amount of money that you attract solving other people’s problems.
I think that is this how life works.
But I am still figuring out…
Maybe we can understand this better by making big questions.
⏩ Are we obsessed with getting money or do we have enough?
I cannot deny that it is usual to forget about other people problems when facing an opportunity to accumulate goods. But maybe I can be different.
I’m not saying that I should donate every single penny to people in the metro. If everyone did this, would the world be a better place? — I don’t think so.
The world would definitely be a better place if everyone chose to buy vegetables from the farm’s market instead of a good piece of bread, meat, and cola in the fast food.
⏩ Is the Human nature a selfish one? Can we choose to be different?
What I realized is that money is also power.
Where we spend our money, we are also spending our energy, and our time.
I see nothing wrong with seeking abundance and improvements. Usually speaking, I am constantly searching for new ways to receive for the skills which I have.
It is an exchange, and it can unlock many features of life.
Maybe the materialistic view is imposed by the media and determined by society. I don’t know. Because having unlimited amounts of money seems boring in the end.
People became dependent on spending to enjoy the pleasures of living.
⏩ Have people lost the skill to see beauty in small things?
My vision is that I have to be mindful while spending. Money does not come from a tree, it is important to keep an open perspective on the return of it.
Little hint: Spending should be seen as investing. Every percentage of gain also exists while shopping for the holidays.
I still try to spend with things that have a greater value behind it. Things that I’m needing or that will allow me to get memories and experiences.
Not just because it is nice or it is on sale.
Seeing the beauty in small things allow me to have fun while spending with the necessary.
“There is something in such laws that takes the breath away. They are not discoveries or inventions of the human mind, but exist independently of us. In a moment of clarity, one can at most discover that they are there and take them into account. Long before there were people on the earth, crystals were already growing in the earth’s crust. On one day or another, a human being first came across such a sparkling morsel of regularity lying on the ground or hit one with his stone tool and it broke off and fell at his feet, and he picked it up and regarded it in his open hand, and he was amazed.”
― M.C. Escher,
#Day 36
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