How Much A Dollar Cost?

"What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?" Mark 8:36

Yesterday at fellowship we were talking about finance...making. spending, saving, lending, borrowing money, all that stuff. This verse came up and we started talking about just the lengths that people will go to to get money...rob a bank, gamble, buy a lottery ticket, sell stuff, it's crazy. But this verse says...what good is it to gain all of these things if it means losing yourself...losing who you are, what you believe in, your morals, what you represent, everything. I started thinking more and more about this verse and how it's relatable to life in so many aspects. Money, power, respect, popularity, fame, boyfriends.girlfriends...what good is it to have all these things but lose your sense of self and reality. Now this verse in context is talking more so about being a disciple of Christ and how following Him means denying ourselves and to deny ourselves to is deny everything in this world and to not hold on or be too hooked onto earthly things, things that won't last forever. So if you take that context and apply it to what I just said...it's kinda along the same lines ish...it's definitely a good reminder for me...to not get caught up in money, nice clothes, girls, how simply how I'm perceived by people. What good is it go have money, girls, fancy cars and clothes if it means losing myself, who I am, what I represent and believe in, y'know. Slowly learning to remind myself to find happiness in the things already around me and to just go with the flow with whatever else comes my way.