Money - Can't we live without it?

I don't really know why this question came flashing into my mind! But when it came, it kept bugging me. Can't we live without money? Or is it really overrated? Is it just easier to say "Money is not everything! You have it today, you may not have it tomorrow!" when there is no lack of money? Imagine for a second that you don't really have any cash with you, your back account is absolutely empty! Suddenly you would think, oh man I can't live like this. I have no life. It's all over!! However happy you were before, suddenly you become sad. It just takes everything away from you. But why is that so? You just lost money, you have everything else. Your family, your friends!

It's true it's not easy to live with the lack of money, nor is it easy to earn respect and dignity when you don't have it! I saw this in "Pursuit of Happyness" - a movie that conveys that we always pursue happiness. It's not something we can have, not something we can own. Chris Gardner led such a hard life. He was struggling so damn hard to earn money - indeed he was pursuing happiness. Does that mean "You need to money to be Happy"? Money is just not something that just pays our bills, that buys us food, that helps us lead our life luxuriously! One gets happiness when they see their family happy and contended, when they can keep upto their needs and demands, when they can feel they are worth something, capable of doing something extraordinary, when they can make the world realize that they are smart! But at the end of it, you need to earn money for this. This is how they measure your success. Chris Gardner had to make most money at Dean Witter to get the job offer. Finally he did, but the underlying aim was not to earn money - it was to see his son happy, it was to prove that he was not ordinary!

Money has become a 'scale' for many things today. And we say "money is the cause of all troubles". It's actually not money that's the cause - it's our thinking that's cause. We have become it's slaves while money should be our slave. We created money and not vice versa. Money is the means to satisfy our material needs in life - it's not life!