Money

"It's good to have money and the things money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things money can't buy."
George Horace Lormier

We all want more money. We want more of the things that money can buy. We want the beautiful house, the fancy car, the fine clothes, the best toys, the exotic vacations. We want more stuff sometimes because we think it will impress the neighbors that we are better people. Some of us associate having more things with being a better person. But that just doesn't hold water.

There is a reason for us to want more money. It allows us to be more of what we are. Depending on our personality and attitudes, that could be a good thing or a bad thing. Money does give us more choices about what we can do or have. But it does not give us anything. As the song goes "the best things in life are free". Our greatest blessings are freely available to all of us. But only if we notice them. There's a good reason why we need to "stop and smell the roses".

Often in our blind pursuit of money and things, we ignore the blessings that we already have. We ignore our relationships with others. We ignore the simple pleasures of a beautiful sunset or a soft breeze or warm sunshine. We just take them for granted. And in doing that we devalue them. We only realize just how valuable they are when they go away.

A truly successful person has lots of money and lots of things. But they never lose sight of all those wonderful things all around them that money can't buy and so are literally priceless.

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