What can money not buy?
I saw a post from someone I follow in which they mentioned someone who stated that they would not rest until they had achieved their goals. Now I would like to interpret this "rest statement" as "oh, I wanted to keep working hard until I got what I wanted."
However, if it actually means "I will not sleep, I would burn midnight candles, and stay awake until I get it done," I would feel sorry for them because they are ignorant.
Most of life's accomplishments are fleeting; we plan futures for which we are unsure whether we will be present; we lay foundations with our blood as the bricks; and we do not even consider what our bodies will function on when the blood has finally built the foundation, but our bodies no longer have blood to function.
Free but priceless
Reminds me of the sacrificial death of Jesus
Many people underestimate the expensive but free gift of health; I use the term "free but expensive" because many people do not have the luxury of functional health.
However, I understand that accomplishments, successes, money, and many other things are the sweeteners of life, and that we sometimes need them to stay on top of things, but when we begin to exchange the gift we have (that was not earned or worked for), which is health, for something else, we will lose the former and the latter will make no sense.
Sleep is Man's most natural medicine.
It eliminates the risk of high blood pressure, which is a precursor to stroke, heart attack, and kidney failure. However, we often underestimate the importance of staying healthy until we aren't.
Growing up, I was on team "no sleep until I make money," which was apparently supported by the belief that sleeping was a sign of laziness. We had people say things like "burn the midnight candle," and there was not a single hardwork quote that did not cast doubt on the phenomenon of sleep.
I understand that most of these quotes are figurative or for emphasis, but many people interpreted them as literal statements.
Growing up, I worked multiple jobs, including some at midnight, and I only got four hours of sleep most nights. I did this for many years until my blood pressure began to spike
Being healthy appears to be one of life's simplest pleasures; however, if everyone was born healthy or remained healthy throughout their lives regardless of how they abused their bodies, I would argue that the body is meant to be used, overworked, stressed, messed up, or exchanged for riches, accomplishments, and wealth.
Unfortunately, many people are not born healthy, and many who were once healthy will lose their good health as a result of carelessness or bad luck.
Don't sell what you can not get with money.
Apparently, not everything in life is exchangeable; the key is to never exchange anything that money cannot buy for things that money can buy. Once you understand this, you are ready to go. Health cannot be exchanged for anything because living in the misery of poor health is the ultimate form of pain.
However, what do I know?
Perhaps I was not born with perfect health that allows me to set myself ablaze and shoot for the moon, which is why I am so upset that someone can choose to sell or exchange their perfect health for life's accomplishments and money.
In the grand scheme of things, why be overly cautious when we all die anyway? I believe this is a strong motivation that "no-sleep" motivational peddlers will appreciate.
Unfortunately, life is not intended to be fair.
Most of the time, we need to find an edge because life is so competitive, and if we can not outperform the other people on the leaderboard, what we have to offer will not be very effective.
There are people who are willing to give up their lives or do other unusual things to obtain unconventional wealth, and it is unfortunate that you have to compete with these people every day.
Yes, these issues are most likely why you need to devote more time, sleep less, and take on more jobs at the expense of your health; however, we cannot predict life with poor health.
The concept of vanity is best understood by those who have lost everything except their money. When you begin to see life as vanity, it means you have lost something extremely valuable that no amount of money can buy.
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Vanity... Far too many people have it and for no good reason...
As far as rest goes, there are people who are born with the short sleep gene. They only need about 3-4 hours of sleep a day. I didn't get that gene sadly, it would have been nice to be one of those people who don't have to sleep as much and still thrive. But rest is important, you will get sick and if you have an underlying condition it will get worse the less you sleep.
Health can't be exchanged for money, and if you are sick and unhealthy all the money in the world can't fix it. That might be different in 100 or 200 years when aging is deleted from the human genome. Way too late for us though!
I don't know about short sleep gene, it's the first time I'm knowing of it. Although I've heard about people who have natural low blood pressure, and it doesn't affect them, I don't know of people with short sleep gene..
It's weird what the body of different people is capable of, my own condition is a spin-off of nature trying to protect the system from Malaria, and now a full blown gentic conditions is born out of it. It's just truly saddening.
Under it can't, many will not understand this until they actually lose it. It's baffling how people underate or abuse what they have for free, thinking that they can make up for wasting their good health when they finally have all the money.
Some health can be purchased with money. Not every health issue can be solved with money, so the rich may be in the same boat with everyone else when misfortune hits, maybe with some fancier doctors around.
People say time is the most precious thing we have. Someone always ill may not see it this way. But rich people can buy some time too. Either through better health, or by delegating/paying others to do for them tasks they don't want to do themselves so they can focus on what is important to them. But when their time comes, it comes, no matter how wealthy they are. Unless they can find ways of becoming immortal.
Yeah, some health issues can be remedied with having enough money. However I feel that unless that health issue is not the fault of that person, then it makes having and chasing money and giving everything to have it, meaningful.
Some rich people might even have it worse. Some already have terminal issues, and it's just about a matter of time. @thebighiggs mentioned above that in 100 to 200 years time maybe things like aging and some chronic conditions will no longer be a problem of man, I have a feeling that some wealthy people are already thinking of buying immorality, even when we know it's impossible.
We might have solved some of those issues sooner if the pharma industry didn't have a different agenda.
You're right. The pharma industries have different priorities, sometimes I think they're exciting to cater for the wealthy and privileged
You are damn right bro. There are those who think making it us a do or die affairs, hence, they end up doing all sort of things like putting has hands into bad things, staying awake even when they suppose rest in order to make this extra money or achieving the riches they want while compromising their health. At the end, if they later make this money and fall ill, that their money might not restore back that health.
I think it very pertinent to balance things. Give attention to each thing when it is due.
Money may restore health if it's not a major issue, but you're right, there's trouble when people cannot restore the health they've lost because they've spent time misusing and abusing their bodies. This is how is see people who also take hard drugs, they gave they health but deliberately abuse it.
Sleeping is underrated. Nobody the amount of money someone may have or make if their health fails them there is going to be calamity. What is the essence of the wealth that someone make on the expense of their health. Such wealth would be spent on medication if care is not taken.
I'd rather remain in a state of lack than have it all, but have no health. Life means nothing without health. However I think people just underestimate what they have until they lose it. I believe anyone with a decent level of health can hustle, even if they don't have anything
There are many things in which money can not really buy
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STOPThere are a lot of things people can't buy and sleep is one of them. I understand if you need to hustle on some serious deadline, but I would not give up my normal sleep for that.
Yeah, sleep is a true gift, and I've experienced insomnia due to unwellness, the state of not being able to sleep is very uncomfortable and saddening
I think many of us subscribe to this mentality that sleep is for lazy people while in our teenage years or shortly thereafter. At some point, I disliked going to sleep early because I could sleep a bit late and get more work done in order to not be left behind by those burning the midnight oil. Now, I know better after experiencing first hand how the lack of sleep influences our body, especially the aging process.
Hahaha, I think the older generation never really understood so much about the body and its many complexities, so they probably didn't know that lack of sleep comes with its consequences. The present generation currently understands more.
I guess good for us in terms of being more understanding than the older generation. We can right out wrongs before they reach a stage of irreparable damage. Prevention is better than cure, they say.
Whenever people ask me what money can't buy, I always think of character.
I don't think money can ever buy a person's character. Of course, there are several other items, but this is the one I feel most strongly about: we can't let money speak louder.
Greetings @josediccus ,
Well said and quite comprehensive.
Enjoyed reading your post.....thank you for prompting us to think on these things.
Kind Regards,
Bleujay