We are living in times in which society is increasingly divided, tumultuous and in a hurry to obtain material gains as a way of showing social status, or even to increase its comfort.
Each one has their own convictions and aspirations in the search for what they believe to be the best to follow. However, are we not chasing too much to have, and forgetting a little about being and living?
What guarantees that a person who has won in his professional life has also won in his personal life? And I go further: who guarantees that she is really happy with the life she has, even having conquered so much wealth?
Live by being or by having
Faced with such reflections, I ask myself: are we living for having or for being? Does our life revolve around the consumer goods we desire, or does it revolve around the search for our inner peace?
In a world where values are reversed, and we idolize people who are apparently successful, little space fits for such reflection. But I think it’s important to travel within ourselves and rethink some values.
I agree that the lack of money deprives us of many things like getting to know a new country, having a more comfortable house, or even a better car. But is that where true happiness lies?
I see some movements emerging in the world like minimalism that shows how less can be more. After all, the less we have, the less worries and the less chances of loss.
Less money, more free time
Thinking about this reflection, I ended up embarking on some thoughts here. Anyway, to earn money we have to work. And work costs us daily hours dedicated to it.
Well, the more we need money, the more time we have to work, and consequently, the less free time we have to really dedicate ourselves to activities that really bring us pleasure.
So, in that same logic, the less money we need to live, the more time we have left, because we don’t have to work as much. So less money means more time. So what’s better?
I agree that the answer is not an absolute truth, after all, everything is points of view, and someone’s opinion is not the same as someone else’s. That is, some may argue that it is better to have more and others that it is better to have more.
Time to reflect and awaken critical thinking
In the face of the exposed reflections, I do not want under any circumstances to label them as true, but just to show that with the time so fast we have become a machine to do in search of having, and we have forgotten the primordial thing: being.
It is when we experience being that we manage to awaken our critical sense, our ability to reflect, to understand others and to be people closer to what the word humanity represents.
If I think we should have the minimum to live the being? My answer is: I don’t know. Even because the obligations I have prevent me from applying this theory in practice.
But I think it’s important to reflect on it so that we don’t become a society that is increasingly swamped in tasks, and that doesn’t even forget its own essence and connection with life. Do you agree?
