Life Ain't About Money

I am 23 years old and I have recently realized that life isn't really about money. Anything excessive of being able to afford to eat whatever you want, take a yearly vacation, and live in a nice condo is pointless. The important thing is having fun with friends, stay healthy and have sex as often as you can! But yah, tell me what you think - is money all that important (beyond affording necessities).

peace

Very few things in life are actually completely necessary, but there are a lot of things that people just enjoy life more with.

Like the Beatles said, "all you need is love."

Like the Beatles said, "all you need is love."

hedden93

No, it's not. At all, important factor WE MADE MONEY TO CONTROL THE USAGE OF GOODS AND SERVICES! Money is a trade off, for everything in this society and it's nothing special, it buys you things, and keeps you in a house.

Without it, you'll have people taking and absuing whatever free resource that's out there, meaning you could be greedy with what you want, and take as much with nothing to trade for it. Say if their was a bunch of people living around one apple tree, and that was their only food source, now what if some one person, or a few people at all the apples and the rest of the people startved, until more apples grew. Now what if someone cut down the tree and apples stop growing? By introducing trade, lets say if you want an apple from this tree, you have to pay me 2 stones, an agreement and an contol of resources is where it starts.

Everything we see is human based value, so when some greedy jerk wants a Gucci shoes over a pair of Converse because he feels they are better because they cost more, that's his base of value. Nothing is worth anything, but what we put too it, you think a bear cares about a bar of gold?

the way i see it, money is what makes the world go round. we go to school so we can get a good job so we can make money to buy a place to live and food to eat and all that jazz

Life is about passion, but can become about money and other things if the person has nothing to be passionate about.hillelslovak

The "purpose" of life isn't about money, or material possessions... but life (at least in the West) wouldn't be possible without it.

It ain't about it, but money sure does run life.

No, life isn't about money, but money can certainly help...

Money helps me get things, but is not the most important thing

You can't really live in the US without money. To be quite honest, the more money you have, the better off you are in life.

It took you until 23?

The "purpose" of life isn't about money, or material possessions... but life (at least in the West) wouldn't be possible without it.

foxhound_fox

Scrooge McDuck would like a world with you.

Money don't make me happy, it buys me things that give me false, sometimes temporary sense of happiness. So happens, the iPod Touch is the one thing giving me hapiness at a constant.

Well Money does provide us with the oppurtunity to get what we Want. But that stuff is not what we Need!

I think our 3 THings we were put here for Are Faith, Love, Understanding.. And i have a hard time wiuth the Understanding part!

It's Easy to have FAith, It's Hard to fall in love, And it's almost Impossible to understand things... Why People do things, Why Past things happened, War, Disasters, Unexplained Events, Why movies likeBrokeback mountain were created,ETC, You get the picture

I am 23 years old and I have recently realized that life isn't really about money. Anything excessive of being able to afford to eat whatever you want, take a yearly vacation, and live in a nice condo is pointless. The important thing is having fun with friends, stay healthy and have sex as often as you can! But yah, tell me what you think - is money all that important (beyond affording necessities).

peace

charsoxer

Life is about whatever people choose to make their lives about. Life might not be about money FOR YOU, and good for you for deciding what your life should be about.

But for lots of people, life IS about money, and what you think about life is irrelevant to those people.

Perhaps it would be more appropriate to say "life doesn't have to be about money." But then someone who loves money could counter that by saying "life isn't about friends, life isn't about health, and life isn't about sex".

One man once tolled me "El dinero no es la vida, pero sin el no hay movida" which translates to "Money is not life, but without it, no one can move about"

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I am 23 years old and I have recently realized that life isn't really about money. Anything excessive of being able to afford to eat whatever you want, take a yearly vacation, and live in a nice condo is pointless. The important thing is having fun with friends, stay healthy and have sex as often as you can! But yah, tell me what you think - is money all that important (beyond affording necessities).

peace

MrGeezer

Life is about whatever people choose to make their lives about. Life might not be about money FOR YOU, and good for you for deciding what your life should be about.

But for lots of people, life IS about money, and what you think about life is irrelevant to those people.

Perhaps it would be more appropriate to say "life doesn't have to be about money." But then someone who loves money could counter that by saying "life isn't about friends, life isn't about health, and life isn't about sex".

Money cannot buy happiness but it can definitely bring one closer to finding it.

Our current way of life is all about money. Don't have money? Well don't expect to get anywhere in our society.
Life is indeed about enjoying it, but what makes one happy is different from what makes another happy. Just because being around friends and having sex all the time is fun and living life to its fullest by your definition, that doesn't mean this applies to everyone else.

Well; it's nice to reach that point where you've got friends, family, a good place to live and a bit extra for those extra luxuries (Sky+, Games or saving up for a holiday) but that's not to say I wouldn't accept a promotion or something if I could earn more money from it. It's important to make as much money as you can for the sake of having money in case something bad happens. Once you have enough money, that's when life stops revolving around it.

random truthsMurj

Life isn't about it, but it's centered around it.

If life was about making money, I wouldn't hate people that make a living out of making money so much. What kind of life is that?!

[QUOTE="Murj"]random truthsBiancaDK

Well money can buy me this

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and that is what my passion is. Sure I don't need it, but music playing is my passion

Life is completely about money. Try telling what you've posted here to someone who can't put food on the table or afford a decent place to live.

Well Money does provide us with the oppurtunity to get what we Want. But that stuff is not what we Need!

I think our 3 THings we were put here for Are Faith, Love, Understanding.. And i have a hard time wiuth the Understanding part!

It's Easy to have FAith, It's Hard to fall in love, And it's almost Impossible to understand things... Why People do things, Why Past things happened, War, Disasters, Unexplained Events, Why movies likeBrokeback mountain were created,ETC, You get the picture

ArkansasBoy91

@charsoxer: What made you think about it? Something must have shocked you to make you realize that money is not everything in this world. I only wish it isn't a health problem; everything else can be fixed...

nope. money is the root of most evil.