You Can't Live a Full Life Without Being Wealthy

By: Jamie McIntyre
Submitted: 2007-01-17 16:17:40
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What is wealth, exactly? It’s freedom. There are many people who earn a lot of money, but don’t have true wealth – they work to make enough money to spend on things, then have to keep working to make even more money. They never have a comfortable financial cushion in case they lose (or decide to quit) their jobs, and they rarely, if ever, enjoy the fruits of their labors.

But real wealth means that you can live your life fully, spending quality time with your family and friends, taking trips to exotic locations, or enjoying close-to-home adventures on your boat or at your mountain cabin. If you’re working 45 or 59 hours a week at a job you hate, coming home exhausted and angry every night, then spending your one week of vacation doing chores around the house ... you’re not really living. You’re working purely to exist, and existing only to work.

There is no nobility in being poor – in fact, it’s often humiliating, and uses up a lot of your time and energy just working to get by. The struggle to pay the bills and put food on the table has kept countless men and women from achieving their full potential, keeping them from painting, writing, composing operas or contributing to society in other valuable ways, all because they spent so much of their creative energies simply working to survive.

It’s unfair to be sure but, to fully partake of all that society has to offer, we need money to buy things, whether those things are plane tickets to explore other cultures or equipment to create art, music or technology that will benefit millions of other people. In a world where money is the most important thing we need to survive, the highest calling that one can answer is the calling to become wealthy – along with our inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, we also have an inalienable right to strive for material wealth.

It sound horribly materialistic, but it’s just simple truth. As humans, we have the ability to better ourselves, to achieve great things in the world, and to advance to the highest planes of existence possible. We have the minds to understand what that entails, and the drive and intelligence to work towards it. To be content with less than the best that we can be, have and produce is a waste of these unique abilities that we alone as animals have been given.

There’s a verse in the Bible that asks, “What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul?” But the same can be asked about the man who fails to strive for material success as well – without money, you can’t afford healthy food, or decent clothing, or a pleasant home. So, then, you could also ask what it profits a man to work so hard when he’s unable to enjoy his life? Wanting to become rich is not only understandable, it’s one of the most laudable achievements you can hope to attain. It means that you want the best for yourself, and for your family. Once you’ve achieved wealth, you can truly fulfill your dreams and the dreams of others.

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