LIVE

We live in a day and age where everyone knows how much something cost, and what we have to do to get it. For example a house can cost $XXX,XXX number of dollars, and that car we want could be $XX,XXX. And then we have this job that pays anywhere from $XX,XXX - $XXX,XXX a year. And we know the price of our grocery bill, and how much it would cost to take our family out to that nice little restuarant down the street. We learn what it means to earn and spend money from a very young age in our society. Which is awesome, right? RIGHT? Because it means we are all going to be amazing, intelligent, business, oriented people who know how to make and spend and manage money? And we allow that to become our focus in life. I want this when I grow up, and in order to do so I have to have this much money, and this much education - that I have to somehow pay for.

But we focus so much on the actual cost of some things, that we forget what they are actually worth. What is the house you want if you can not make it into a home. What is that nice car you just bought, without the memories you will make of trips with your family or friends. What is that meal you just ate without the laughter and conversation shared at the table.

If all we focus on is making the money in order to live, then the living done with said money means nothing; because it is not truely life being lived, merely a puppet playing along its strings going through the motions that society has given it in order to live what appears to be a "happy" lifestyle.

So don't forget in you're quest to gain these things you want from life - the majority of which we associate with needing money to do - to actually live. Don't forget to enjoy the small things in life, take a moment to breathe in the world around you and appreciate things. Find the true worth in that house you just bought, or the dinner you just paid for. Don't let the cost of something take away from the worth it has and don't be so busy going about life that you actually forget to live.