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Thoughts after reading blog from Snowflying - How far money can go in our life

603 views. 2011-11-10 09:35 |Individual Classification:chicken soup of the soul|

 Is it fortunate that I am one of few people who choose stay with current job?:)

 

 I am not a rich lady .Money does not matter in my life when my basic needs are met

 

There is a classical theory proposed by Maslow who illustrated that human being is motivated to fulfill hierarchical pyramid of needs.

 

The bottom need is physiology including water, food, shelter, closing and transportation which exerts an irreplaceable role in men's life

 

Besides the physiological need ,Safety become the next pursuit. Once These two basic needs are met thus people are driven by the higher needs as love and belonging ,esteem .the later one is related to prestige people gain from society .

 

The top is self-actualization This level of need pertains to what a person's full potential is and realizing that potential

 

With Money People could buy food, buy shelter to reach safety level, but love and belonging is sth that money does not work that much . The higher level you go the less importance it plays. Money could work to some extent but not in all aspects.

 

A fast- paced life in a fast growing developing country sometimes blinds us .We are living in the society which is driven by economy .GDP is measured by quantified figures as a key index used to evaluate the performance and comparing to previous months', the same period of last year or that of the other countries.

 

 

Undeniedly Figure is one of signs or indicates telling us things goes wrong or right  direction. But not cover all the aspects .There are many other elements such as, In practice ,happiness is sth unable to quantify and hardly to measure. Happiness index actually becomes our final target of our life.

 

Somebody come up with the idea by including happiness index into calculating of GDP. This could be a breackthrough change ,I hope there would be some method to help this calculation and let GDP reflect a real live status of people . Then GDP is a virtually comprehensive index.

 

Surely There could be a small group of people whose happiness is positive relevance to money. This , I would say is related to their life value :).not count large mumber of people in society .Here we are studying  is  the big area of a normal distribution .

 

For me once basic needs are satisfied like food, safety. money does not play that important role .In case It works It will only be temporary rather stay long.

 

Therefore , I will still remain with my current job even I suddenly become rich overnight. That does not help me except maybe some sleepless night. Haha

 

A change of my job could be triggered by career development, health and working environment .

 

Hope I did not go that far .Come to the point is Money is a figure and has little link to our happiness from certain level on in my eyes

Post comment Comment (4 replies)

Reply Jessico 2011-11-10 13:23
You statement is right. With the development of economy, surely people's living stangard has greatly been improved. However, people become less happier because of pursuring boundless materials. Turn to the root, for better advancing the current status, we should change our concept that lead a contented and spritual life with meeting the basic needs of materials
Reply rich 2011-11-10 14:22
money, money, i don't know how many people are crazy about it.  how many people's eyes are blinded by this magic word. some even claimed that she would rather weep in a BMW than smile on a bike.
honestly we cannot live a normal life without money. but its magical power seems to reach irrational level for some. they would not admit that she/he is a slave of money, but actually they worship money, more or less, consciously or unconsciously. for some people it can go a long long way.
it is rare nowadays to find girls who really don't care much about money, for they are too realistic to know happiness is not directly related to money.
Reply sophia_2011 2011-11-10 16:08
I have been thinking of that if the young generation especial post- 90s are too poor as they have less chance to meet their true love due to complicated and sophisiticated society.

People are tending hide their true feeling or lost themselves in order to pursue a so called upper -class life . They might even misued their power or did sth against the morality to maximum their wealth which is measure by the money itself. :)

As born in 70s I am lucky
Reply snowflying 2011-11-10 22:30
congratulate to you, you have been the 4th clerk!

so so so glad to see you have some your own thoughts about money. so so so glad to see your reading my blog. actually my this blog topic more like only a test on the class. my attitude about "money" , i will publish in tomorrow morning's blog.  sophia,good night!

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