Money or Health? Maybe it depends

We all are lucky that we were born and experience nature and universe and have our existence and in this life, we all chase something, which is our desires and to meet those desires we do lots of stuffs, put in lots of efforts and spend our time for a future which is so uncertain.

In life, we get to know about how the world works and what we need in this world to fulfill our desires. We from the childhood see it, observe it and know it. We see how for even the smallest of our desires, like a small chocolate, we have to have something which is money which when we spend, we get what we want. Our brain programs itself after seeing it and we have a desire to own lots of such coins and notes!

If we don't have these pieces of paper, the world looks empty to us, we are not respected much, we don't get what we desire so much and we struggle to meet our life needs as well!

Money is important, it is really very important. Any philosophy that says money is bad and to want to earn it is greed is nothing but an excuse for a lazy person to not want to work!

But, to earn money, one needs to put in efforts, do hard work be it mentally or physically, one needs to actively engage with the world and do productive and give proper outputs against which he will be rewarded with money. And to earn money, one needs good health.

We really need good health. We need it not only to do productive works and earn money which in turn will help us meet our desires, we need health to actually enjoy the perks which money gives us as well! An unhealthy person can never really do good work to earn money and even in a hypothetical scenario that he is born with a silver spoon, in simple words, in a very rich family, he would need very good health to enjoy the money he already is going to inherit and to maintain it.

As living and breathing organisms, our desires can never be pieces of paper but what those papers can do for us, for say, we like a $100 note because it can buy us lots of strawberries, but if we are given a choice between taking a $100 note which cannot be spent, or a bowl of strawberries, we all will choose the strawberries, why? Because we can consume and enjoy the strawberries and not the note of paper.

Health is really necessary for a person and I guess it is more important than money, because a healthy person can earn money while an unhealthy person even with a lots of money can never enjoy his wealth. But it is only limited to a certain degree however, since except for very painful or allegedly said incurable diseases, most diseases can be fought off by good foods and immunity.

Now, it is not black and white or binary, we need a balance of both money and health, the reason is, to maintain our good health, we need super healthy foods, protect ourselves from diseases by hiring doctors and buying medicines, to workout and exercise and live in a healthy and comfortable house and society, to have less tensions, to be able to afford the basic needs, to have a longer lifespan, to focus on things which make us happy, to have control on our life and how it should be lived, all of these are also very much needed to live a healthy life and money can buy those for one.

So, I guess, we don't have to make a choice here, having a good health as well as good amount of money never harms, they are both essential to live a life we all dream about!

Cheers!