Money is the Root of all Evil…Apparently?
Being rich doesn’t make you a good person, but neither does being poor make you a good person. Sounds like simple common sense, but how often as a society do we automatically assume that someone who is successful and wealthy, has cheated their way to the top.
Being poor and unfortunate is not a virtue…
Now to be clear right up front, I am not talking about genuine homelessness, or circumstances that are tragic. I never deal in extremes. What I am talking about is the average person who has a mortgage, a family, a job they don’t really enjoy but have to do, and never enough money to feel like they are ahead of the game. The person who talks about being working class and never getting a break, that they do it tougher than anyone else, that things in their day were so much better, that the young people today have no respect…I could go on and on, but you know the person I am talking about. They only see graft and corruption in successful people because they are looking for someone to blame for their lot in life. Our society seems to be filled with these people, just have a look at comments on social media or in the Letters to the Editor section of the newspaper.
It is ok to want more money, to want a bigger house, and to want to be successful. The problem arises when we cannot be content with what we have right now. This is not an easy attitude to adopt because our consumerist society and social media hysteria tell us we have to keep getting more stuff, and the more stuff we have the better we are.
To find happiness in life you have to be able to continue to strive to be better, to be more successful every day…BUT…be content every day with what you have. This means your happiness does not rest on what you are striving to achieve, it rests on where you are right now, what you have right now, and what you do right now.
