Cynic - a person who know the price of eveyrthing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde
This is a one of the most popular quotations by Oscar Wilde, and as you can guess, it is very old, but it is very popular nowadays. Because, there are many cynics all around of us, everywhere. They can buy because they have money, they cannot appreciate, because they do not know how valuable it is.
You could hear this amazing quotation in movie called 'The Rum Diary', and in the movie it is said by the amazing Johnny Depp.
In the movie Johnny is playing Paul Kemp, writter who cannot sell his book. That means, he has no money. He gets a job as a journalist and goes to Puerto Rico. There starts his adventure, he will meet many rich people, who know price of everything but at the same time they do not know the value of anything, he will meet a pretty woman, and he will meet a lot of rum, but that is not the point. I recommend the movie, watch it you will not regret.
But, my point there is the quote about price and value.
We are living in the era of consumerism and we seem to know all the prices, we know how much money we need, but sometimes, we do not know why do we need those things. It seems that we forgot that the best things in life are not things. And, people who think that can buy everything are cynics, people who do not know what are and what are not things are not people.
It seems to me that we all became cynics nowadays. We are cashing money so we can buy things, and we stopped looking for all those important stuff in our lives that are not things.
For example, love, friendships, family, happiness...
You can add anything to that row, anything valuable to you, the only condition is that it cannot be thing.
Material things are very important, and I am not trying to tell you that you do not need them, you need them. And it is natural to want to have good, expensive things. We want success, we want money, we want things, but on that journey we should not forget about our loved ones, we should not forget aobut something what is above material. About love, about people we should love and people we should make happy. And, when you love someone, he or she will love you, he or she will make you happy. That is a circle. What goes around, comes back around. You get what you give. You need to send if you want to receive.
We need to learn how to be happy, how to be sad, how to love, how to hate, how to feel in general, and you cannot have the real feelings about material things.
When you get a nice present from someone, it is not the things what is making you happy, it is a effort that someone put into buying or making or finding that gift for you. Person is who you love, person is who makes you happy.
It is always person.
If you earn a lot of money and buy something nice to yourself, you are happy because you are proud of yourself, because you did something great.
I mean it should always should be the person. If you came to the spot where it is about things, you have a problem, a serious problem, and I am afraid that it is too late for you, you became a cynic, a total cynic.
Be sure that you are recognizing value of things that truly have it, and appreciate things, that are not actually things, while they are still in your life.
