Money is not everything

It appears that money seems to be more and more important in this material society. There are people who claim that money is everything. They attach great importance to earning as much money as possible, for money may symbolize a person’s success. Does money mean everything? In my opinion, money is not everything. We cannot buy everything by paying money. Some things are precious and priceless, such as love, health and happiness.  

On the one hand, we cannot purchase love by money. Love is essential and a kind of emotional feeling. It exists in a couple or a family and everyone is equal in term of love. For instance, a rich man may spend too much time on earning money and his family time is occupied. Money estranges his family. He cannot pay money to make relations better. Love needs time. As a result, he can only spend more time to enhance his family relationship.

On the other hand, we cannot purchase health by money. We can pay money for more vegetables or gym, but we cannot become healthy directly by money. There are thousands of examples that rich people cared too much about their wealth and their health were ignored. When they realized this is a serious problem and suffered from the disease, money could not heal them directly. For example, Kai-Fu Lee, ex China Google Chief, was diagnosed with cancer and regretted to have cared too much about his career, not his health. 

Additionally, we cannot purchase happiness by money. Money can buy happiness if we spend it in the purpose of bringing greater financial security for the family. The chase of possessing more possessions can never find its destination with incessant desire to accumulate more wealth. Happiness comes from our hearts. When we trade too much time and energy to get more wealth, we deprive our inner self from the food of happiness. 

To sum up, I believe that money is not everything. We cannot attach too much importance to money. Even if we are not rich, we are also able to lead a healthy, loving and healthy life. Trying our best to make the people around us happy is another good choice.

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