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Originally Posted by paparora
Without money, you cant take vacations. Cant buy the luxury items. They bring happiness.
I mean a life without money with your daughter/son, wife...would be pretty dull. Its living like Amish people except you don't have the tasks that they did to keep themselves occupied.
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Wow. That's an incredibly offensive statement.
What you're saying is that life is only worth living if you have money, and that's just not true at all.
Let me peel back the curtain just a bit for you since your youth and inexperience is showing: I probably make as much or more money than your family members. I also work incredibly hard to get it. I travel 3 or 4 times a week and habitually work 55 hours+ each and every week unless I'm REALLY busy when it goes to 75+.
As you can see in my signature, I have 2 young kids. I don't for a second think that I'm successful in anything but a strictly financial sense. I am successful because I have those boys and my wife. Frankly, as much as I love my job, I'd quit in a second if I didn't know I'd be seriously unhappy without a job like that. My family defines me more than any monetary thing ever will. I can also state as fact that there are several board members who make SUBSTANTIALLY less than I do that are as happy or happier than I am with my life.
Things do not bring happiness. Someday you'll grow up enough to realize that. If you really think that joy in life comes from material possessions, your parents did a poor job teaching you priorities.