Bread and daffodils
Recently, there was a post in the group, 62616964757a68696416fe59b9e7ad94313333333739. Everyone was in full swing about wage income. People who earn more look down on those who earn less. They are poor and incompetent. People with less income look down on people with more income to show off their wealth and pretend to be forced. Maybe you really live in this society, and money adds too many apertures, which is too mythical. Perhaps it is not so magical and important, and we can treat it lightly. Money, as a tool, its existence value lies in exchange for what you need. So what do you need? The material aspect is nothing more than food, clothing, housing and transportation. Even if there are ten million acres of fertile land at home, a meal is just a bowl of rice. Even if the house is square, sleeping is nothing more than a seven-foot big bed. In material terms, if we don't blindly keep up with the joneses and pursue luxury, the demand will always be limited. What about the rest of the wealth? Pile it up? Bury yourself in money? Muhammad said, "If you have two loaves of bread, please exchange one for a daffodil." Compared with material satisfaction, human beings always tend to be rich in the spiritual world. However, money is always extremely powerless in exchange for spiritual pleasure. Maybe you have a lot of money. But ask yourself, did you have the pleasure of playing and chatting with your friends when you were a child? Are those who pursue ideals and spend everything for them happier than those who hold hundreds of thousands of deposits and worry about being stolen today and devaluing tomorrow? It is true that in this society, we can't walk without money. But if your income can guarantee your life, you don't need to worry too much about making a living. Then use your money to do something more meaningful when you can get happiness from other things. When your happiness goes beyond the paper with big or small numbers in your hand. I think, at that time, you were really rich and full. The meaning of life lies in the process of pursuing spiritual world satisfaction.