Penny For Your Thoughts ...

I met an English lady this morning, whom I haven't seen for few years. When I inquired about her husband, rich & famous singer, she said they had divorced, and 'That son of a bitch, with his millions, gives me only €14,000 a month'. Had she not referred to the ex-husband with the connection of a dog Mother, I would have congratulated on her fortune. For most people this sum would have been considered a gift from heaven, not a bitter disappointment. I could certainly live very comfortably for less than half of that.

Most of us are familiar with the saying that money doesn't buy or guarantee happiness, amply demonstrated by a great number of cases, when even the very rich as well as the famous have their fair share of miseries, albeit they could have the benefit of being unhappy in absolute luxury. It's hard to determine whether wealth or fame is responsible for the most part of their unhappiness, likely the combination of both, because they are usually linked.


If you are very rich, you immediately become famous even if you are an idiot never having done a single deed worthy of mentioning. It's easy to conclude too, that if you are famous, money would somehow roll in, whether you need it or not.

People, however, would not let the likely prospect of being unhappy deter their zest, determination and effort to make as much money in the shortest possible time as their life's ultimate aim. Not to become a better person, or happier ones, or more productive, more useful, more knowledgeable ... but more money in the least time and, if at all possible, accompanied by fame. Even infamous is better than poor. They measure success purely based on prosperity in the economic sense.

Naturally children grow up governed by this same idea, more like a doctrine, setting the same goal for their lives. Especially in families where the parents feel nothing is too much for their children, giving them all what they themselves never had. This sets the mind of the young with the false notion that money should be the highest goal of their aim in life. 

 
If they make it, they have the money and not much else. If they don't, that is in the majority of cases, they have to live their lives considering themselves a failure, however much they had achieved in worthwhile fields.

Tags:Fame,Wealth,Success,Failure