Content | Eighth Tuesday: Talk about money
Text Source| Meet Tuesday by [Us] Mitch Albom
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<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" >01 false values</h1>
Man, when not, I wish I could have it. After getting it, I want more. The more the merrier.
Murray:
Our country promotes indoctrinated forms of education, and they repeat them to you over and over again.
The more you have, the better. The more money the better. The more wealth the better. The more the merrier.
We say this to others over and over again, and others say this to us over and over again.
Over and over again until everyone thinks it's the truth.
Most people will be confused by it and lose their ability to judge.
Originally, it was said that money is not omnipotent, but it is impossible without money.
What we do: elevate money to faith and turn ourselves into slaves to money.
We have established false values and believed in the supremacy of money, which has created a false illusion about life. The terrible thing is that everyone puts it into practice.
Everyone thinks that this is the truth, and they are deceived by it and lose their ability to judge.
People who tell lies end up believing themselves.
The water flows low, and the people go up. They only tell you that standing high and looking far away, but they do not mention that the high places are cold, and the higher you climb, the heavier you fall.
If you want to wear a crown, you will bear its weight. The survivors of each road are the winners of the fight, and of course, there are the eliminated losers. Whether you love money, seek power, or fame.
Step by step, unsatisfied, insatiable, endless desire.
From need to want, more and more things to want, more and better, it becomes difficult to fill.
< h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" >02 what is needed and wanted</h1>
Is it human nature that is greedy, or does education give wrong values and deviate from the social atmosphere?
Morrie: The society is confused about what it wants and what it needs.
Many people should have seen the reality show "Metamorphosis": urban children and rural children exchange families, and urban children are not to say that they are reborn, but also in a good way.
However, having seen the bustling rural children, can they really look at the gap between the two without any hesitation? Returning to your old life?
I think a lot of people can't do it because their hearts get bigger and they want more things.
What you need is food, but what you want is chocolate sundae.
As the old man often said: from frugality to luxury, from luxury to frugality.
When you want something that's beyond your reach, it's easy to get into trouble.
For example, some people embezzle public funds to buy luxury goods, and some people spend huge sums of money to reward anchors to create a rich second generation of people...
There are countless examples of these people going to jail for a lifetime because of comparison, because of face, because of unstoppable desires.
However, there are always new people who come in and continue to perform this documentary in person.
It's a world of clearly priced prices, and we're used to measuring everything with money.
Everyone is like a businessman, weighing the pros and cons, full of calculations, just wanting to make their wallet bulge. Alliances are formed because of the same interests, and enemies are also made because of the conflicting interests.
There are no eternal friends, only eternal interests.
Society smells of money, so we put ourselves on the social table and sink with everyone else.
In the era when everyone is a creator, there are many big stomach kings who eat broadcasts, explorers who go deep into dangerous places, and eyeballs who sell miserable faces...
As long as the audience is willing to pay, more is the operation without a lower limit. After all, this is what society looks like. Kneel down to survive for money.
People who do this are certainly not very happy, not very relaxed. Of course, the truth is, no one has had an easy time.
But for bigger housing, more fashionable cars, more expensive things, it's been sticking with it. Isn't it?
And these things don't make you feel satisfied.
Because you want too much, you can't stop once you start, always being possessive of something new.
Do you really know what really satisfies you?
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" >03 Money cannot be replaced</h1>
Everyone feels that their lives are right. Even, watching yourself sink into the quagmire of desire.
Because everyone is very good at excusing themselves and getting used to self-consolation. They will find a suitable reference point for themselves to prove that they are doing well.
If you have a poor life, just look at those who are worse than yourself, and you feel that it is better to have more than enough than the top. If you have a good life, you look up to the rich people at the higher levels, and you feel that your desires are not worth mentioning compared to them. In this way, I can continue to live with peace of mind.
Uncover the smoke cloth on the surface, and inside is the truth that people die for money and birds die for food. Perhaps the facts and truths are difficult to accept, because they are too real to admit and dare not face. Just as the human heart cannot be looked at directly, human nature cannot withstand the test.
Keigo Higashino: There are two things in this world that cannot be looked at directly, one is the sun, and the other is the human heart.
People who love money, some are looking for money because of lack of money, and some are looking for alternatives because of lack of love. Of course, there are also people who only love money and nothing else.
People who lack money, even if they earn enough money, will not stop, no one thinks that money is too much, only wants more. People who love money, of course, will love money as fate from the beginning.
People say that what is missing is supplemented, and calcium is supplemented when calcium is lacking. It is unrealistic for a person who lacks love to hope to fill an empty heart through material abundance.
You can't substitute material things for love, kindness, tenderness, or affection between friends.
Neither money nor power can give you warmth, no matter how much wealth or power you have.
Money is cold, where is the temperature for you to hug and warm? Money can't be a substitute for feelings.
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" >04 Attitude toward money</h1>
If you want to show off yourself to the upper echelons of society, dismiss the idea, and they still look down on you.
If you want to show off yourself to the bottom of society, please dispel this idea, they will only be jealous of you.
Identity and status often make you feel overwhelmed.
Only an honest heart can make you face the whole society leisurely.
Find the right attitude towards life and seek a meaningful life.
You have to live for yourself and for others. Giving to others makes you feel alive.
Money can buy a large part of the ready-made things, but it cannot buy the touch, healing, and companionship that takes time, energy, and care.
When you learn to give and have to be needed, you will discover new values in life. You will feel like you are really alive, not like a walking dead.
That kind of enrichment is actually very simple: go to the nursing home to chat with the lonely elderly, go to the welfare home to play with the children, volunteer...
As long as what you do is from the heart, you will not feel disappointed, you will not feel jealous, and you will not count the rewards of others.
Otherwise, you will suffer from gain and loss.
There is love and companionship, there are bitterness and tears, there is sweetness and smile... Colorful, laughter, that vivid appearance is life, but also a kind of wealth that many people can't get.
It's not just that the numbers in the bank account increase, it's called rich, it's a kind of poverty, so poor that there is only money left. It's just that many people don't want to admit it.
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