Remember the old saying
“If wealth is lost nothing is lost
If health is lost something is lost
If character is lost everything is lost”
I strongly agree to the last two lines, but let me give you a thought on the first line.
This is just a thought.
Money or wealth matters a lot. I mean A LOT.
In this planet called EARTH, nothing is free, except air and water.
Why people are working staying so far from there loved ones?
Why people are working over time?
Why majority people going for engineering and medical streams?
Why people purchase land and gold often?
And the list goes on and on...
It’s all to make wealth or money
See the magic, a piece of the paper can make. That’s the power of paper. Anything can be bought with the paper.
Earlier people used to say wealth can’t buy love. But I believe it can buy that also
up to an extent.
If you don’t have money ask your friends, your loved ones, they will definitely give it.
You never know where you will get the money from.
People whom you know for many years may not give you; may be the circumstances they are undergoing. People whom you met in the last two weeks may give you.
Its not that people who are rich always give and people who are poor will not.
You cannot blame auto-walas charging you high. They also have to survive in this world.
If you have wealth, you have lots of friends, relatives etc.
If you don’t have wealth, of course you will have friends, relatives but not much.
Money can change person both mentally and physically.
Nowadays the trend is that people who are rich still grow rich and people who are poor is still going poorer.
Recession came and lots of people said all the money is gone. Where’s all the money gone? I did not see any recession when I walked into a shopping mall.
You cannot blame anyone. The world is like that!
Now you complete the first line “If wealth is lost ........”
Yes if wealth is lost, many major things are lost..I agree to ur point from today's perspective. But wealth can be gained back by some means. If you loose your character, the loss is irrecoverable..May be coz of that there is this old saying....
ReplyDeleteNow coming to your thought of having less friends in time of less wealth, my views differ here. If at some point of time I dont have enough money and I am struggling and I see my friends are leaving me, that's the right time where I can make out who are my friends and who are not....Its better to have a less number:)...
Eventhough anything can be bought with this paper but not our judgement, our qualities, our perception, our soul...
Jus' a tot.. Even air and water is not free these days. You need to pay for water, and you need to pay for Air Conditioned air, or you pay for oxygen cylinders also :)
ReplyDeleteGood going chetta !!!
ReplyDeleteIf Wealth, taken in terms of money, is lost then consider it as temporary and small loss. Money, no matter how long it takes, will definitely come back to you. Swami Aurobindo once wrote in his letter to a friend - "No doubt, God will provide, but He has contracted a bad habit of waiting till the last moment."
If wealth, taken in terms of friends, relations, knowledge etc, is lost then take it as a serious loss. A loss which is, if not impossible, very difficult to recover.
And I consider health and character also to be part of wealth. So for me the 2nd and 3rd lines of that saying are just extension to the first one where first line talks only about the money related part of it.
Coming back to MONEY part, I agree to what Rinita has written to much extent. But I would still like to make a point that one should not be a prejudice and think that whoever gives money is a friend and others are not. consider this-
1. If I give you money because I really want to help --> Friendly behaviour
2. If I give you money so that you will be in debt and follow whatever I say. So I that I can dominate -- > Not so friendly
3. I do not give you money, even though I am rich, thinking that why should I give --> Not so friendly again
4. I do not give you money, even though I am rich, because I have already made other financial commitment and right now not in a position to make another one --> Friendly
I think it is long enough comment to make you feel sleepy :-) so closing it down.
Yours
-Pulli