The saying that it is better to be healthy, rich and happy than the poor, sick and unhappy will seem ridiculous to someone. After all, this is clear to everyone without exception! However, the question: "What can not be bought for money?" tightly connected with this folk wisdom ...
Money can not buy happiness?
Suppose a person faces the task of choosing one thing: health, happiness, or money. What to stop, what to choose? To be healthy, but poor and miserable - can this be a dream, a goal? Or here: is it possible to be happy, living in a garbage dump, when your head is clogged with searches for a piece of bread, when your legs are twisted by gout, and your lungs are torn by a cough?
But money is a lot of money! - It is unlikely to bring joy if a child dies in the back room, whom, alas, you can’t help. Money will not help if your loved one is unhappy in marriage with an unworthy person, but does not want to change his lifestyle. They are useless even when you feel that life has been lived in vain, and the sunset is already near. And it’s so disappointing to realize that everything seems to be there, and suddenly a difficult moment comes - and there is not a single person nearby who can understand, sympathize, and help.
Thus, in response to the question of what cannot be bought for money, one can name love, friendship, memories, time, health, happiness - yours and your loved ones.
Health and money
They say that health cannot be bought for money. But in some cases, they are the decisive factor whether this or that individual will be healthy. And if there is no necessary amount even to pull out a bad tooth, is it possible to talk about happiness?
No disinterested love and the most faithful friendship can not get rid of debilitating pain. But the small amount paid to the dentist dramatically changes life. So, when answering the question “what can’t be bought for money,” one cannot explicitly indicate health, because often it is the lack of finances that leads to its loss.
Love and lack of money
Tell someone of your contemporaries that you cannot buy love for money. You will laugh in the face! And here they will cite as an example the statements according to which love is a monster that constantly requires food. This should be understood as confirmation of how variable this feeling is and is unstable. You will be told that even the most sincere love can pass if the chosen one or the chosen one stops proving their feelings in practice. And to do noble deeds without a penny in your pocket is a rather tedious task. Well, maybe so ... But someone will object, they say, with a sweet paradise and in a hut! Alas, as practice shows, all these are just words, but in reality ... "When need breaks into the door, love disappears through the window!" Who does not know this folk wisdom? The constant struggle for survival almost always leads to the fading of love, no matter how pure and tender it may be at the very beginning.
Buying feelings - isn't it crazy?
Answering the question about what cannot be bought for money, many mention love and friendship. But this can be argued. “It is difficult to love or respect a homeless person, a loser,” the majority believes. Although at the very beginning it is the lack of money that can cause close and tender relationships. But very soon the “benefactor" in love will get tired of constantly financing sluggishness, supporting a loser, and keeping a silly and stupid person.
Of course, it is possible to help a not entirely successful person to rise to a rather high level both in the spiritual, physical and material terms. But, again, money will help a lot. By the way, even a person who is sufficiently wealthy can be instilled with tender feelings for himself, using not only spiritual but also material costs. For example, to study his inner world, his needs and create around him the very paradise that he dreams of. And then you can change yourself, and even externally. Indeed, cosmetic surgery can easily be done for money.
Money and happiness
So is welfare in the modern world deciding everything? Why is it said that happiness cannot be bought for money? But such a story, the likes of which are found all the time, will help to doubt this statement.
A boy was born in one family, to whom God singled out everything according to the full program: he gave him beauty, intelligence, talent, health, a pure and exalted soul. But he did not give money to his family.
In another family, quite wealthy, a curved-sided, untalented son was born, suffering from migraines. Parents invested a lot of money in plastic surgeries, cured his headaches abroad, and from childhood hired tutors and talented teachers. As a result, the young man became a pretty attractive, educated, interesting person, found a good girl, favorite job, became successful and happy.
A boy from a poor family was less fortunate: from early childhood he had to work hard. Overwork took his beauty and health, his talent could not be revealed, lack of money turned him into an embittered and withdrawn person. And then his fate is easy to draw: the same evil wife, sick children, hopelessness and poverty.
And who turned out to be lucky? Of course, if a gifted person had become a beggar already in adulthood, and a sick and ugly person had the opportunity to cure and develop, already formed, the story would have a different ending.
So, money doesn’t solve everything, but much. Only their quantity and the time when they appear in the individual are important. And the conclusion is that for a person to grow up happy, he must receive everything he needs from childhood. Not to bathe in excess and luxury, but also not to suffer from want and hopelessness. Poverty did not make anyone happy, but immense wealth is not a criterion of happiness.
Honor and money
It is very important to find the right use of money. Even respect can be “bought” if you support, for example, an orphanage or a shelter for homeless animals, publish books by talented authors, build churches and free kindergartens. True, the question may arise of how such capital was made ... There will be no recognition and respect for someone who, through good deeds, is trying to atone for sins, having previously done many unseemly acts.
No wonder the people insist: "Take care of the dress again, and honor - from youth." It is an honor that cannot be bought for any money.