by winston » Tue Dec 15, 2015 6:19 pm
Wealth, Status, and Prestige Will Ruin You Without This
By Mark Ford
If wealth won’t buy you happiness, what will it buy you? It’ll buy you security.
And by that, I mean relief from worrying about how you’re going to pay your bills — now and when you retire. That’s NOT an insignificant thing.
We’re all born into this world without any actual entitlements. We may believe we’re entitled to certain things such as freedom and health care and so on, but, in fact, Mother Nature (put God in there, if you prefer) never promised us that. So we’re entitled to nothing.
If we come to rely on others (our parents, our friends, our bosses, our community, or our government) to give us any of the things we want, we’re foolish and will ultimately be disappointed.
Financial security is a good, but it’s a good we must, as individuals, secure for ourselves (and those we want to include, such as family, friends, or even a larger population of people we care about).
Source: ETR
It's all about "how much you made when you were right" & "how little you lost when you were wrong"