Money comes and goes just like easy women. It is always replaceable and will never bring true happiness.
Time is fleeting, you grow older and see all the waste that you had. Friends and family that you lost track of because you put money or something else in front of them, and you can never get that time back.
I"d rather spend time with good friends and feeling loved than having a million in the bank and no time to see my loved ones.
Money is important but it doesn't drive me and I pity those that it does. I know what it did to me, I had plenty of toys and more than most but I was never happy and I truly never knew who loved me because of what I had..... and I always wanted more because more meant I was important. But important to whom? Friends who I couldn't trust because I thought they were after my money. Women I couldn't love because I wanted more money?
So keep the money, I'll take the time. When I die I would rather say I spent my life helping others and loved than fighting for more while others starved.
And if you don't like it or think I'm a wimp because of it..... I pity you because that tells me you put money ahead of love and helping others.... the true reasons we are put on this Earth.
(My personal experiences with money...... I understand there are those that need it and work hard for it.... and I am saddened that our society finds it so wrong to make sure those who do the best they can and work hard to just survive aren't worth decent wages and vacations...... but the CEO's and rich NEED those porsche's, lambourghini's and trips to Jamaica.)
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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"
Last edited by pan6467; 06-19-2005 at 07:46 AM..
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