Money, Money, Money...

Our predecessors are true, when they said, “How much money we get, it is not enough.” When it comes to money, I believe there are two things

Ø Increases your means to get more money or
Ø Spend less.

Mostly, it is ‘either or’ kind of thing. Mostly we are taught to do the latter. Monthly I have to track where I am spending the most and try to reduce it the next time. I have computerized (being a software engineer, I can use the technology wherever I need it) my spending, Tax stuffs as Excel Sheets (We can do a lot of stuffs with these simple excel sheets). We plan money for something and it will go for some other thing. There is a John Lennon told, “Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.” It is true not only with respect to money, isn’t it?

It is not wrong trying to get money you want. But the compromises we make to get that money, determines whether we enjoy getting that money or not. Money was made as an evil thing by people who made it as a measurement of a Man’s status. (Here, Money also includes material wealth).

I am trying to live a life where I live for my needs, to some extent to my family’s needs and not for others. I am already trying and I hope I will continue. There are lots of people around you who ask, “You didn’t buy a land, house, car, bike and every other stuff they saw in another software engineer’s house.”

As said in The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho, “In the long run, what people think about shepherds and bakers becomes more important for them than their own destinies.” I have to overcome the thought about me, “What others think about me?” These are all the thoughts which I am fighting for. I know it is worth fighting.

I got little advice from elderly people that “when we get more money or when we move up the ranks in work, Humbleness should be there”. That’s true, isn’t it, I am trying my best to live humbly.