Spend on people not things

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We all need money in life and there is nothing wrong with money. There is nothing wrong in people or businesses making money.

It is what we then choose to do with that money that matters.

If we choose to accumulate money purely to buy a lifestyle and spend it on material things, hoping that will bring happiness, then it might be a very long wait for happiness to turn up.

However, another option is to accumulate money and spend it doing activities with others, with friends, with loved ones. This is where the joy of life comes from because this is where we create memories, legacies, this is how we leave memories in the heads of others to enjoy after we have ended our journies.

No one remembers paying the bills or how many iPhone upgrades we had. The size of our house, car, bank balances or the labels on the clothes we wear will matter not at the end of our lives.

The places we visited, the activities we enjoyed, the people we met, the people we loved, the people we helped and the ‘art’ we created and shared will be what matters.

Spend with people, create abundance to help others not to buy things.

If only we were as smart as the things we have invented

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We have gone from hunter-gatherers, to being able to send satellites to the edge of the galaxy. From writing on cave walls to sending packets of data instantly anywhere on the planet. We’ve modified crops, cloned sheep, created AI, and so much more.

I am not here to argue about whether it is progress or not, if we need it all or not.

My thoughts, if we are this smart, how comes we are still so dumb as humans in other ways?

We still go to war, still build houses on flood plains, continue to destroy the very planet needed for our survival, poison the foods that we eat with chemicals. We frack for gas and oil, yet it pollutes the environment.

We have ignored all the lessons, which we could have learnt.

The list could go on……

The answer as to why we still do all these dumb things is simple.

The greed of a few and the acceptance of the many.

If we all questioned more, then we would not be as dumb.