When you think of that cash flow, how do you feel? Resentful? Hopeless? Wishful? Are you in your happy place?

It's either you have a lot, the bare minimum, none at all, or enough so that you are able to live comfortably. That emotion that gets evoked when you see or hear about it, says it all.

Money isn't either good or bad, but only what we do with it can make it so.

It would be like saying that the gun is the cause of the shooting rather than the actual person that pulled the trigger. Another instance of this would be like blaming the phone for causing distractions in one's social life instead of the owner. The force behind the currency is what makes it evil.

Seeing well-to-do celebrities with mansions, steady careers (or none), and supportive family and friends, blow their money on drugs and alcohol makes our perception of money smaller and smaller. We start to think that maybe having thick wallets may not be the best reality if that's how the rich choose to spend their money, by ruining their lives with their money.

We start to think that money is the center of all evil and all corruption as opposed to the man behind the curtain. Too much of a good thing, can't be good.

We were told our whole lives that "money can't buy happiness", but I'm definitely sure it serves us if used wisely.

If you were to blow your entire paycheck on shoes and overpriced purses more often than not, I'm pretty sure you would lack in the necessity department. Maybe you wouldn't have the water you need to stay hydrated or the food you need to fill your belly.

How could that possibly be a life you would want to live? How would your quality of living be?

Compare that lifestyle to that of someone who saves up to travel across the world to explore a place they haven't been to, or someone that goes to concerts every other month. That's more concerts than the number of shirts they must have.

Anyway, it all comes down to the quality of your life and how you choose to spend the money that you worked so hard for. You can either buy moments of pleasure and memories or buy something shiny that won't impress your friends as you think.

Yes, it's worth saving up for that new piano. That new camera. That Killers concert. That vacation you and your best friend have been planning for years.

Drop that money on food and have lots of dinner dates with your friends. Donate to that charity you've had your heart set on. Is it really necessary to impulsively buy that Mercedes now? You might feel more fulfilled to go on that vaca.