Syndicate
Enjoying Life
In order to enjoy life at the cost of material things we would have to dedicate our existence to having more and more. We would have to run and run, as if life were a challenge to overcome. If there were a mountain, we would have to climb it and get to the top to overcome it. Every moment is all that there is, and we need to take advantage of it spontaneously, just like it is presented to us, nothing more. Transforming it into a competition is losing it. There are people that enjoy a great amount of exterior well being, but that are not able to achieve a full life. But there are also cases of people who lack commodities and become resented and this causes them to become very bitter, whereas there are others that have become used to their commodities and they now cause them boredom. What does seem to be clear is that happiness depends on something interior in a man, of his friendly vision of the reality and the acceptance of oneself and of his or her circumstances. The more sense that every person is able to find in lives, their family, and their work than their lives has more quality and takes them closer to becoming happy. Having possession of material things is merely an illusion. All you have to do is look at the faces of the people that live to possess their things, their oppression, their urgencies, lack of trust in others, their reproach, and their lack of humor. That is definitely not happiness. The problem is that there is not enough money that will make these people feel satisfied, if they do not feel satisfied with themselves in first place.
It is true that in life it is not frequent for a happy to have been the one that does not have a shirt, but the important thing is to put the money in our lives, in their real context. The main objective is to achieve peace and happiness. The eagerness to accumulate money will only make sense if we contribute to achieving these objectives. Any other way, it can turn into our worse problem. There is always the danger of becoming trapped in the money and disconnecting oneself from reality becoming insensitive in face of the needs of others.