Money has always baffled me. I grew up thinking it was freedom to everything in my life but over the years I realize it’s a false sense of security in some ways..
I grew up being given money instead of what I really needed, and there was always a focus on how we can earn more. I don’t dislike money or working towards a goal, if that be earning more money, but growing older and wiser I realize love and connection is so much more valuable.
So why do we concentrate and put so much time and energy into getting more money in our lives?
With today’s society focusing on technology, making us believe products and external things will make us happy, we forget about our inner self, and how to actually enjoy life without money. The satisfaction you get from buying new things is very short lived and I believe putting work towards our inner self will last much longer and what you learned about your inner self will not disappear and no one can take it away from you ever. Money can disappear in an instant.
Ok, so we have to pay our bills but is that how we survive from our own selves and our possible pain and suffering? When asking people about money, they say they want more, but what they really are saying is they want to spend it..And if we are honest what do we spend it on? A new car, house, new clothes, technology and things that really don’t matter.
All things outside of ourselves..Some say it gives us freedom, power and independence, but we forget that to feel completely free and feel really empowered is through acceptance, love, compassion and connection. Money is a peace of our minds temporarily, but it does not create happiness or validate who we are. And how much money is enough?
We work 3 jobs, 70 hours a week to provide for our family, which not only makes it impossible to take care of ourselves, but also when do we connect with your family and friends?
Through this external illusion we try to validate our inner self, and solve our inner conflicts with products instead of finding out what makes you, you. Society says if we have money we will be successful, get recognition and get love, but what is success? And does money give us a feeling of being loved or is it a cover up to find out we are not perfect, and if we have money we think we are perfect in other people's eyes and they will love us? What if being who we are is success, and the only thing we need to feel validated..How about security, do we feel secure to have money or fame, or is it that we don’t trust ourselves to achieve happiness without it?
We all have imagined what it would be like to have unlimited amounts of money, but would it make us more happy.. I can think of many problems we never faced before that would arise.. for example maybe it would be very difficult to trust anyone, knowing how to save or invest in it, and the stress of trusting yourself to be able to keep it and not lose it. Money is pieces of paper that dictates our quality of life, and we believe it will save us..when we are in a situation where we don’t have money to pay our bills, money becomes a prison and it can redirect you to not be able to focus and have time to work on your dream.
I hope in the future the focus will be to put more time in learning how to find peace inside, and have the desire to grow without the pressure of thinking we need to have money to validate who we are.
Today’s Assignment:
Notice how much time you put on gaining more money in your life and notice how much focus society put on it. Also try to notice how much time you spend on your inner self and how that makes you feel.
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