Making money

When you grow up you don’t have the concept of money in your head. You are focused on learning, playing or being with friends and generally excited about what you learn or what you like.

Even when you begin to earn, you freely spend them on things you like. You want to go on a trip or buy an expensive camera or spend on hobbies, or spend for others, you don’t think twice.

Somewhere down the line, you become more careful about money. Probably the pressures of sustaining a family or your desire for bigger goals like buying a house or others makes money a scarce commodity. You suddenly become aware of your spending and begin to question every spend.

This makes a lot of us keep money as an yardstick. The more you make, the more you begin to feel secure. The more you want to be secure, the more you feel insecure and the more you want to make. You end up getting caught in this vicious cycle of making more and more endlessly and have less and less time for yourself to rest.

Keeping money as a goal is akin to building a resort near a river, when all you wanted was to sit on the banks of the river and enjoy.

Money as a goal never helps you reach your real goals. You may be happy with just spending time with your family or friends. Or you may be happy as it is doing little things. But like the way Gravity distorts light, your real happiness will be sucked away by manufactured happiness created by the blackhole of money.

Question your need to make more money always.

If you feel you are happy as it is, don’t build a resort. Instead stay on the banks and enjoy the river.

You can plan for the future that may or may not happen without losing your present that is happening in front of you.