I had lunch with a friend 2 weeks ago and we touched on this topic.
Being a very successful career woman, she has the job and income that everyone admires. However, she pays dearly for this – she has to sacrifice her family, her social life and above all, her health.
If we have the conversation a few year ago, she would be saying that it is worth it… but now, she somehow expressed that maybe this type of lifestyle is not making her happy and fulfilled.
Sometime I wonder how do we draw our boundary? How much is putting enough effort into career? How much is giving too much in this context?
And also, for the rich people – having how much money is enough for them? I am sure you have seen lots of wealthy people who cry over a lost opportunity of making a few million, whereas they have already have more than have enough to feed the entire village for years.
Fear often lies beneath our compulsion to gain more. We falsely believe that possessions will bring us security in cyclic existence. In fact, our attachment to them keeps us bound in a prison of dissatisfaction. We constantly crave more and better, yet are never satisfied with what we have. There are very few people in big cities that really don’t have enough for survival, it’s actually the fear of not having enough that bound us in this prison.
Appreciating what you have and being in the present is so important – only then can you realise that abundance is right here right now.
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