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Originally posted by final_identity
The idea of money giving you options -- sometimes that's the case, but quite often the quest for money LIMITS your options instead. At least, occupies so much of your time, that you don't have the freedom to exercise or consider all those options that you can afford. It's an odd balancing act.
And to me, travel is VERY important ....
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To the wife and I we love to travel also. It's the most important thing for us. It is what we work for. It's our form of fun.
That said, options is the money factor for us. At one point in time we could afford to eat at expensive restaurants every night. We could afford designer clothes, expensive cars, etc. Those things weren't important to us. To us they are fleeting. We still weren't any happier.
With travelling, it's slightly different because we come back as a different person. Our outlook on life shifts because of what we experienced while away from our homeland. This year alone we are going to Iceland and Sedona, AZ. We've already planned our first trip for 2005 which is Madrid Spain and Gran Canaria Island. While it seems like we're spending alot of money there, we kind of aren't. Our trip to Spain and Canaria, airfare is free, and the housing we just have to pay for in Madrid, we traded our timeshare for Canaria.
Rodney has a few years on me, but his words are exactly on point. Money shapes our lives, not drives it or owns it.