Value of Life

With everything that has happened to my family recently, it got me thinking about life (I know a big topic and rather deep). At the same moment, I thought about my responsibility to this financial based blog. Then these thought processed proceeded to how money affects life

Money can compliment, hinder, benefit, or drive your life. As the cliché goes, you either live to work or work to live. I believe I am in a career that I will enjoy arriving to every morning. My life would be miserable if I dreaded my occupation. Either way money is essential to your survival in the modern world.

Also, how can you place a dollar value on a human life? Ponder this question about your family, and you will realize there is not a figure. In the end, where are you going to take your mountain of fortune? True money may improve your quality of life but it will not change your appreciation of life. Now think about the intangibles that money can not buy. These intangibles can also be removed at a moment’s notice just like your fortune can be whisked away with a few ticks on the stock market. True, money buys the essential tangibles. The hard part is to find the happy medium on the lopsided scale that fits you. The point that I am aiming for is that you should actually go out and live life today but prepare for tomorrow. As my mother always said, “You should always take time to smell the roses and enjoy the sunshine.”