During our lives, we need many things, but the most important of them have no price tag and can’t be purchased with money.

As the saying goes, “with money you can buy a nice bed, but not a nice sleep, a nice watch, but no time, the best food, but not appetite, the best medicine, but no health, a nice house, but not a home, books, but not wisdom, sex, but not love.”

Those priceless things are the ones we need the most, and they are not for sale. We have to work on the aspects of our humanity, spirituality, and intellect to get them.

There are beggers of money, and there are beggers of life. The ones who need only money may find a solution for their problems one day, but the ones in need of life are so stuck into the depths of their ego and vanity that they will only realize it when it’s too late—if they do.

But some people may say, “Well, that sounds cool, but 1 million dollars would solve all of my problems!”

That’s true; it can really solve a lot of problems, but it can also create a whole new set of them. After using the 1 million dollars to pay your bills, if you are not careful enough, this same money will pay for false friends, false lovers, fake smiles, and fake happiness. It will give you the power to buy everything that has no real value attached to it, and even beyond: the ability to destroy your life.

History is full of examples of people who got rich and, at the same time, got lost. Since they had the core belief that money was the answer and solution for everything, they used it to buy the fake versions of everything it couldn’t buy. By doing it, they dove into wild parties, alcohol abuse, heavy drugs, gold diggers, and many other illusions. They used all that to simulate the happiness they thought they would enjoy once they were rich, but they failed.

Money is important for sure; everyone needs it. But if I went on a shopping spree, I’d buy wisdom from the elderly, knowledge about love from mourning widows, the value of family from orphans, how to use my life time from people on their death beds, and the value of peace from people who survived the horrors of war.

But how could I pay for all of it? Giving attention to the elderly, a comforting shoulder to the widows, a paternal look to the orphans, my time to the terminally ill, and my empathy to the war survivors.

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