When I look around me, I see that almost everyone is chasing money, and I will not say I am not included in it. Yes, I too have that in me of earning more money. Because without money it is difficult to survive in today's world. But more important is the realization of feeling satisfied at some point of time. Which I can say that yes, I have that ability. There is never an end to our demands and desires. Whatever we earn we always feel it's less and more is needed, but that's not the case. If we start drawing lines for ourself then we will be satisfied with what we have.
Me and hubby are planning to retire from our jobs by end of 2025, we have both worked enough and saved well over the years. We are both self-made, we never had any inheritance and we worked hard for every single thing in our life. We are not touching our retirement age but yet we want to retire, because we feel that we have enough to sustain the rest of our life peacefully. Our friends tell us that we should not retire and continue with our jobs so that money keeps flowing.
For us there are other things that matter now and personally we both are on the same page that money is one thing where one will never feel it's enough so we have to draw a line, and we have created some sources for a running income, though it will not be as much as what we are earning now, but it will keep us going. Especially hubby is a very contended and a simple person, we are both happy and satisfied with small things and if big things come our way we more then welcome it. Making this decision has not been a challenge for us at all. It bothers our friends more then us, but we are happy that we are able to take this decision. We want to travel and see the world before we are too old to do it, we want to do many other things in life, I have a dream of making candles and making a small business out of it, so all of these things though may not generate much of money but it will bring us lot of happiness and that's what we are both aiming for now.
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Money is a tool, and like all tools, can be used for good or evil.
You are 100% correct that the love of money (ie: greed) is the root of all evil. It is one of the main problems with human nature and a blockage between us and enlightenment.
Congratulations on earning and saving enough to stop most of your work at a relatively young age. And also on not becoming obsessed with accumulating more. It sounds like you have reasonably good health to enjoy which is a blessing.
By the way, I like that choice of images. It shows silver coins, which are one example of true money. Money is a storage of value, not paper fiat currency. Your title says money, so I was happy to see the image match! Instead of piles of paper bills as many people would have chosen. That said, money and currency both suffer from the problem that humans become obsessed, and become greedy, leading to all sorts of evils. Savings (especially in real money like gold and silver) are a good thing! But accumulating it or earning it to blow recklessly is a hollow pursuit that is eating away at our societies.
I would love to see a different future, with less emphasis on material wealth, and more focus on natural wealth and resources. We should be taking good care of our ecosystems, air, and waters. Loving our families and friends, enjoying peace and happiness, focusing on health and stability for all people. But too many are caught up in personal greed and running the rat race, even today in 2024. I was hoping by this point we would have all noticed the better way to do things, but it seems there is still work to be done!
Thanks for your post on a good topic : ))
First of all thank you for your wonderful reflection.
My choice of silver and gold coins is because I always believe in manifesting bigger things rather then running after the smaller parts of it.
How I wish that people would get out of this greed mode, then majority of the world problems will also end. Peace starts with within and that only happens when one is satisfied and contended with themselves and the life they have. I personally feel that with time this will even get worst, because even if one does not have greed for money and has greed of power then that also serves no good. Any kind of greed is bad for humanity.
It's only towards the end of the life suddenly people have these realizations and for some even that does not happen.
Quite a sad state. Money takes a higher priority over the real happiness of life
It's best when we can attain these insights well before we are lying on our death bed!
Good luck!
Thank you