For The Love Of Money

Day 17/31

Hey guys, hope you\re doing well...decided to take today off, the weather was way too gloomy, it was slippery outside...wasn't bout it. I woke up this morning to go to lunch with my friend and while scraping the ice off my car, I was literally slipping and I had to hold onto the door handle to stay still and scrape the ice off the car. At the library right now, trying to do work...clearly it's not working if I'm sitting here writing this post instead.

Money's a touchy topic I feel...but it's pretty black and white in my opinion. Money's great, it allows you to buy nice things whether for yourself or other people, it allows you to provide for yourself and for others...it's a necessity but also a luxury. That one saying 'money is the root of all evil' has been running in and out of my head as of late. My dad would always say you have to learn to save before you can know how to spend, which is really true As kids, we're always taught to like do well in school so we can get a good job....and most people's definition of good job is one that pays well...that's why the most common jobs parents tell their kids about are like doctors and lawyers. But what happens when money becomes your only motivation and reason for working and stuff. When it becomes a priority over things like family, friends, health and happiness. Money is nice and such...but people get so caught up with spending their entire lives making as much of it as possible that when it finally comes time, there is none left to spend and enjoy it. It's like you spend your entire life working hard to save money to spend on your family, but in reality all that focus and attention towards money is causing you to neglect your family...which was the sole purpose of you wanting more money in the first place...isn't that interesting? I dunno, I've just been seeing that a lot around me lately...money being such a motive that things like health, happiness, family and friends are neglected and forgotten. Work hard, play hard right? Everyone's mentality is going to be different...some people wanna work hard now so they can enjoy later while others wanna enjoy now and work hard later. But some people work so hard all their lives they forget to enjoy...or other people enjoy their entire lives that they forget to work and end up slacking or struggling to barely get by. It's about finding the balance of working and playing...what's the point of making so much money if you have no time or no one to spend it on?