Well, I’ve had a lot on my mind recently, and this somewhat continues with my first post. If this life we have is so precious and such a blessing, what is worth spending our limited time doing? I mean really think about it. What is important to you? Is it all worth the time and effort? It all started when me and my cousin were talking about our jobs, and we were both in awe of how much of our (and mainly everyone’s) lives are spent working. Basically, we have 24 hours in each day, and of that a normal job takes at least eight of those hours (let alone the time spent to get ready for work, commute, etc.). So, all that said around 1/3 of the average person’s life is spent working. Also, we spend around 1/3 of it sleeping too. Leaving roughly only eight hours to do what you want to do in one day. And when I come home from work, most of the time, I am so tired that I don’t end up doing what I want to do anyways. This really took me back, I mean, I know we work a lot, but that much of our lives spent working for what? The answer is money. All that time spent is just for money.
This really made me ask the question “Is it worth it?” I know money pays the bills, buys the food you eat, the car you drive, the place where you live, the things you want and need. But again I’ll ask again, is it worth it? Why do we need to work all we do to acquire seemingly so little? Is money required to live this life? No, it most definitely is not. Do we really need all this stuff? No, we can do without a majority of the things. We waste so much time working, to acquire money, just to spend it and use it all up so that we have to work again just to spend it again. It is a vicious circle and a pattern that I cannot stand. Who tells us we must work to live, or that money is required to survive? Who says that somehow wasting all this time working is a good way to live? I have to step back and ask myself “Why is this practice so widely accepted?” The answer is our society, yes, our society is so corrupt and mislead that we feel that money somehow leads to a happier and better life, but does it really? It seems to me that we are all jus slaves to the system.
I think we must question the end (things acquired with wealth) rather than means (the wealth itself). What are we gaining buy buying all these items? They are nothing but material things that will not matter once we are dead and gone. We cannot take them with us. So, why are we working so hard and wasting time trying to acquire them? Does the time you worked to acquire them worth an item or thing that is perishable? I believe that this is not the way life is meant to be lived. That the time we spend on chasing “the American dream” is wasting away too much of our precious lives. There has to be a better way. Think about it, we all die and we cannot take all this precious money or things with us. So really, what is the use?
So what real value is money worth? -Nothing at all. Sure, it pays my bills. I have electricity, clean water, a car, a cellular phone, internet, etc. But do I really need all of these things to live, no. Honestly, I can say that those things are not really necessities but luxuries. Luxuries that really are not worth all the time used up just have them.
I wish life would just get simple again. Where you built your own house with your own two hands, where you live off what the earth provides you, you grow your own garden, and hunt for food. A life where we forget these luxuries we have today. Where the work we do is only to provide for ourselves, and not a waste of time acquiring worthless money. A life where the means of trade are real material meaningful objects, not just an idea and a piece of paper that is worthless. A life where the time you have is more meaningful than the objects you can obtain.
I want to look back to how life used to be and how simple it could be. I want to look at Jesus and how he lived. He didn’t have the need for money or material things. He had a purpose and he focused his time on fulfilling that purpose. He didn’t waste any time, and everything he did had a meaning. His life is the perfect representation for how life should be lived.
I want to live my life so when I am old and dying I can look back and not regret or feel like I wasted it away. I want to feel that I used the time I had properly, and enjoyed life to the fullest. To feel like my life had meaning and that I obtained more than just wealth, to know that I did my best to accomplish my purpose, and succeed at my goals(and no, my goal is not to waste time chasing wealth). I want to live a meaningful life, and spend my time wisely.
