He is a model of success in the eyes of the majority. His day begins from when the sky is still not clear to when the street lights are exhausted. He measures the value of life with numbers dancing on the stock screen, with the area of a luxury apartment or the horsepower of a luxury car. For him, time is money and every moment that does not create surplus value is wastefulness. He is diligently accumulating, and then when standing in front of the mirror, he sees a man who has everything, but lacks the radiant joy in the eyes of a person who knows how to enjoy.
One day, he received a message from his younger brother telling him that his father had been missing him lately, wanted to sit and have dinner with him, he arranged to go home. He had planned to go home for the weekend, but then an unexpected event prevented him from going home. He clicked his tongue and waited until next week and even planned to take his father on a trip to Europe at the end of the year to "deceive him", but then his father passed away on a stormy night. And he forever carried regret in his heart...
She, a woman who once believed that joy is life, also cannot avoid turmoil. She sees friends checking in at luxury resorts, sees branded goods becoming a measure of self-esteem. The conflict between these two value systems is clearly visible in every corner of life. That is when we use health to exchange for money, and then use money to buy joy in the form of fast-moving consumer goods, dissolving as soon as the shopping excitement ends.
Many people are swaying between these two extremes and often fall into the trap of comparison. Taking other people's account balances as a standard of happiness for themselves. We forget that money is just a tool, and if that tool crushes the original purpose of peace, then it is the most loss-making investment in a person's life.
Money is a great foundation. But joy is the roof. No matter how solid a foundation is without a roof, the homeowner will still be soaked in the rain of loneliness and regret. The value of a person does not lie in how much he has, but in how much light he brings to the people he loves. Don't wait until his feet are tired to find a comfortable seat, don't wait until his heart is cold to find the warmth of affection. Learn to spend money in moments, instead of just using moments to make money.
