WHAT CAN MONEY BUY?
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There is a saying by many people that money can't buy happiness, which might be true to some extent, but many things will create sadness if we starve from them.
To get them, we will always use money. This means that money is a tool that creates happiness indirectly because it relieves us from grievance and sadness brought by starvation over mandatory needs.
These are some of the things money will buy for all of us.
- Direct and indirect security.
Money as a tool for generations will always affect how we feel directly in case we don't have it if we are to fulfill our basic needs and wants. What am talking about is food, shelter, water, etc.
A child will cry endlessly if she or he feels hungry. There is no way how a parent can replace that discomfort for the child without providing food.
To buy food, you need to have money in your pocket.
I just used a day-to-day example of food, but I request you to think of the day you felt bad and seriously got disturbed in your mind because of not having money in your pocket to solve an urgency like a landlord demanding rent or a power cut-off in your house.
We can all feel bad in that scenario which means that to overcome it, we must either borrow from someone or go and get an urgent work to fix these problems.
Money can create well-being for all of us in case we know that we have a defense on where to get it in case we face a money issue problems unprecedentedly.
If nobody is owes you money, you know what you are going to eat tomorrow and very confident that your children will have school fees next term. How will you be feeling in that moment?
Have you ever seen someone sitting somewhere but thoughts are very far away?
Or do you see people that are walking while talking alone?
The thinking of how worse is going to be in the future for some people's life just because of not having money can create misery in their status quo while those who know where to get what to spend tomorrow and after tomorrow will always feel secure from now and in the long run.
2. Social confidence.
It is common to see someone walking with brag because he has got some money from somewhere.
He or she knows that it is a tool that is valued by everyone.
There is an automatic feeling that we fit in because we have money.
Again many people curl up in public because of confirming that they are poor and they know that to have a say in public, you need to have the answer to the saying, what do you have in your pocket?
It might not be that way for you but those who value money yet they don't have it can fathom what am trying to say.
I grew up in a village where people said that we should only speak up after feeling secure to pay the fines in case we wrong people in what we say.
This worked as a motivation for us to always yearn to have money.
I do agree that the journey might not be easy but it is the essence that we must prioritize.
My mother used to say that we should not walk in town so often because we might step on people or pour people's valuables mistakenly and we can't afford to pay for them as fines.
That threat resulted into insertion of fear in us that in case we failed to pay for our mistakes, we would be taken to jail.
A friend of mine was telling me how he is getting paid everyday in an online app in which he invested less money and now walking with confidence that even if he loses whatever he has, he can get paid tomorrow. When we confirm that there is a flow of money coming into our pocket, we really can all feel good.
3. Initiation of attraction and inspiration.
I do believe that the most respected people on earth are those with money. There is a direct admiration that is given to those with money. Everyone will always love to get recognized by a billionaire whether on the internet or in society.
A woman can easily get attracted to a man who has shown self-care which will always be affected by how much he will spend on him to look that way. If you don't have what to spend, will you look attractive?
A man can admire very easily a woman of class based on how she has exploited sophisticatedness through her self-care and confidence of which it needs spending some dollars.
There is a high chance of affecting people to become who you are maybe the confidence or to pursue what you do from the admiration of you because of what you have.
When you value money, you will start to look for it endlessly, the more you get it, the more you will inspire others to also do what you do or not exactly what you do but to achieve what you have and that is money.
If you had ever been demanded by someone and being put on threat to be taken in jail and then you paid after struggling to get that money, you know how happy you are as of now.
By abdurahman kajumba.
