CURRENCIES OF LIFE

Have you ever wondered the last statements that people tell themselves when they are about to pass on? I once had an opportunity to ask myself such a question and a chance to read about it.I will share with you some of my thoughts and findings.

People value relationships
more than anything theyhave

I thought these questions would be determined by the dreams and desires people have in life. But it came to me as a surprise that people hardly say “I wish I made million dollars.”  Instead most people wish to have lived better lives and spent more quality time with the people they are leaving behind.

People value relationships more than anything they have. Most of the times people overlook this fact and put the better part their effort towards making money. They seem to consistently forget that man makes money but money does not make a man. All the things people poses are for others to either benefit from them or see.

All we truly need is regular meals, a bed to sleep in, clothes and medicine. Then why do we strive to create millions and billions. If we can find the answer to that, a lot of our problems can be lifted from our shoulders.

 The value of time increases
depending on how we spend
it not in how much we have it.

I will not overlook the value of making millions of dollars, pounds, rand or shillings. But I will always advice that during the creation of economic currency, we should not destroy the social currency that we have. We should preserve the relationships we have at the highest cost. More so with those people who have contributed to the rise of our status and those we consider close.

There are life currencies that we spend  all the times; sometimes even without thinking of them as such. One is time, the second is social connection and lastly money we earn from our work. People are the very basic reason why we create goods and services, without them there is no money. These same people know where opportunities are and they connections to what we are looking for. Sometimes in their minds lie the solutions to our most troublesome problems. Once somebody told me that the people around us are the doors to our destiny.

The value of time as a life currency  increases depending on how we spend it not in how much we have it. It is actually the most important resource. It determines the value of relationships as currencies as well as money as currency. If you spend quality time with your family you are bound to have a rich relationship, similar for friends. If you spend valuable time at a moneymaking venture you will make money.

The last currency I will write about is money. It determines your ability to lead a comfortable life and buy the basics of living.  The time currency and relationship currency determine whether we are able to earn money.

The value of all these currencies depend more on how you spend them. If you spend them carelessly they diminish in value, but if you spend them well they argument each other.