Affluenza: What Does Your Money Say About You?
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Affluenza: What Does Your Money Say About You?
If life were merely about money, it would be like a game of Monopoly. At the end of the game, you’d count your cash, add up the value of your assets and find out whether you’d won or lost. Then you’d breathe your last.
Unfortunately, being the richest man in the cemetery is no real accomplishment! Life is about more than money!
“Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition,” says U.S. president Barack Obama. “It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger . . . that you realise your true potential.”
money can’t buy happiness
American film actress and model Bo Derek once said, “Whoever said money can’t buy happiness simply didn’t know where to go shopping.” I think she was joking. I hope she was joking.
There are too many stories of sad lives among those with wealth to say that money can buy happiness. The Casey Johnson story is a recent, extremely sad example.
Casey died of severe insulin deficiency in January this year. Thirty years old, she was found dead in a run-down, rented, West Hollywood house where the gas and electricity had been cut off and rats ran around the empty swimming pool.
Born into a family worth an estimated US$180 billion, she was the greatgreat- granddaughter of Robert Wood Johnson, the co-founder of the Johnson & Johnson empire.
“I have so much stuff that, you know, it’s almost embarrassing,” she once said. “I got my first Chanel bag at 12, and a $17,000 gold Cartier watch when I was 15.” She referred to her wealth as a “golden handcuff ” and complained that there was “nothing left to want.”