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08/03/2010 - Issue 42
What can't you live without-love or money?
by Rana Chaar
I do believe that it is hard if not impossible to live without either, but if I were to make this difficult decision and choose which one I think I can manage to live without, that would be love. Yes, we seem to have been able to live and exist without love. It is a chain that holds us all together but in the past decades we humans have worked hard in order to destroy it, to break free from each other. While we have all been blinded by love, its magic and its wonders, the importance of money in our lives has been increasing. Get it and you’ll be satisfied, get loads of it and you will fulfill your hearts greatest desires, this seems to have become the motto these days.
Money has become that golden key that almost everyone would sacrifice all what they have in order to lay hands on it. For some of us, this key is right below the surface of the ground. For others, it is deeper down and it requires smart digging to reach it. Along the way and with all this digging, some people have become so obsessed with money, their insanity has caused them to lose their minds.
Money can buy you a lot of things, such as comfort, luxury, and in some cases love. It has been doing miracles and granting dreams. There seems to be nothing that money can’t buy you.
Therefore, I feel as though we are all on this track field, running as fast as we could, competing against one another, our minds focused on reaching the finish line. It is he who gets the money, he who reaches the line first.
You see pictures of all these famous people, the “money makers“ as I’d like to call them filling up the pages of magazines on a daily basis and it gets you thinking, they have money and it has done them good, but are they happy? Are they living the life of their dreams? Money bought them luxury, comfort, fans and fame, so can we now assume that they are happy, perfect beings? I do believe not, for most of them are on these pages because they have gotten in trouble or were caught doing something bizarre.
With money come a lot of worries, feelings of fear, guilt and a whole lot of responsibilities. Use it wisely but never for a single second think that it is going to make you invincible, out of reach, happy. As Spike Milligan once said, “Money can’t buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.”
Money can't buy happiness, but it can add to it.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can ensure it.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can open up the ability to be happy.
Money can add to happiness, but it cannot create it..
Rida elhajj:
wow rana ! this is great ! :D
Nour Fayyad:
ummm I was thinking of that..money can bring happiness but this kind of happiness is so incomplete .. Pefect happiness only comes with someone to share.