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The original was posted on /r/getmotivated by /u/BoyManners on 2024-01-11 13:29:47+00:00.
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Human beings are not designed to handle everything. All rules have exceptions, except this one. We cannot find a single sample among billions and billions of people who ever took to this task and succeeded.
The world is full of little people roaming around who want everything in life, and not just that, but they want everything in life for themselves. Money has become a disease everyone is suffering from. The more you have it, the more you want more. (There is a scientific explanation, which I cannot go into detail about here.)
Since money is everywhere, people start running everywhere, like in a refugee camp after a catastrophe. People run wild towards the first sight of the UN trucks. Even the hyenas don't eat more than their fill. But humans do, as soon as they make money their goal.
When you start to want everything, you are going against your own design. It's like being pulled by ropes from every direction. It will not only confuse you but tear your soul apart. You will never get inner peace. The longer your list of wants becomes, the closer you are going to get to the hardships of regret (since you will miss out on opportunities, friends, and family), jealousy (because you will always have someone having more and better), unwanted sorrow (because you will inevitably have to pick fights which are not yours, lose people who were never yours, fail on expectations, and fail people on expectations since money buys everything but it just doesn't buy everyone), and most of all, greed (the first child that money begets).
These are the basis of most of the corruption in our homes and countries. For example, if your purpose is the ultimate gain of money or power, you will naturally equip yourselves with the skill of making money and gaining power, like we all do these days. This is why entrepreneurs act like and sound like and even feel like spiritual leaders to us. It will develop a sense that giving is bad for business, and taking every cent will become good, no matter how or where you get it. Since a buck is a buck, right?
So, a shallow purpose like fame or fortune will rip away the virtues, even those gifted to you by birth, with or without your consent. However, if your purpose is the ultimate good of people, community, or country or society, you will still have to equip yourself to make money. To make sure you can do the good of people and communities. But you will never become greedy, nor will you step on any single person on the way of making that money since your purpose will keep reminding you that you cannot pick and choose between people or situations since need could be relative but your purpose is absolute.
Patience and serenity will calm yourself down through this training of sacrifice. This purpose will obviously make you a giver throughout the course of this journey, and great virtues will come inside you with or without your knowledge.
The amazing thing about money is that it's a by-product of many goals and journeys, so don’t worry about money. Whatever goal you are truly trying to achieve will yield some sort of monetary channels. So money is an output of many purposes, but money as a purpose only has one output. And that's hollowness of the soul. Beware of that.