People seem to have this notion that everything involves money. Well, when you think about it, it pays for nearly everything. It pays the cable bill. It pays the utility bill. It pays the car payments. It pays the mortgage payment or rent. It even pays the cell phone bill. When you think about it, money pays your kids tuition in college. It buys them books. It even buys you McDonald's at night when you want to drive through and pick up some cheeseburgers. But money doesn't make the world go around.
From the perspective of someone who has always done pretty well financially, it is easy to say that money doesn't make the world go around. Especially when happiness can't be found, misery is dealt with on an almost daily basis, dread is involved every time the drive to work is involved and when life happens. Money doesn't make the world go around. Because happiness can't be found, and misery seems to surround the days. It's a great feeling knowing the cable bill gets paid every month. It's a great feeling knowing the cell phone gets paid and those nice expensive pretty phones get to stay turned on month after month. But does it really matter when it doesn't make a change in the days, and it doesn't bring a smile to someone's face?
Everyone wants to talk about money. It buys those concert tickets. It pays for those vacations. It puts down the security deposit on a new something or something else. It buys the new lawn tractor. It pays for the lawn mower. It buys the movie tickets. It does so many things. But when it doesn't bring the happiness a person wants, does it matter? When money doesn't make the world go around.
When you wake up in the morning and you dread going into work, does it matter if you make $25,000 or $250,000? Does it matter if you drive an expensive car? It just means you have to keep going to that job you can't stand doing, dealing with people you don't want to talk to, look at or have to be around. It just means that you have to go through the motions of paying that expensive house payment, making sure the car insurance is paid, and making sure your kids get those new little toys that keep them happy. Because the moment you stop worrying about money, the internet gets turned off. The expensive cable bill that you don't give a crap about stops getting paid. And everyone gets angry.
The bills pile in every month, and every bill disgusts you just as much, but you make those choices. You decide what to keep on, what to pay, what to have in your home, or what is or isn't necessary. It's just disappointing to know so many people base their entire lives on material things that you can't take with you when you die.
You can wake up one morning and decide that a $200 monthly cable bill isn't worth it, and you can turn it off. You can piss off everyone in the house who doesn't care about you, but who cares about the cable bill more than you? You can anger everyone else when you cancel the cell phone bill and make them deal with prepaid phones. What's the big deal? You cut your bill by a third. Remember a day years ago when cell phones didn't exist? Hell, you can turn off the $90 a month high speed internet. What's the big deal? There was a day not too long ago when internet didn't even exist. Money doesn't make the world go around. You make it the case. And you can stop it whenever you choose.
It's your fault that you are in that position. It's your fault that you are stuck. It's your fault that you are miserable. It's your fault that you are unhappy.
And it's you that can stop it. Any damn time you want.
Money doesn't make the world go around. You make it happen. What you own is your choice. You choose to buy all of those expensive toys, pay those expensive bills and have those materialistic things. You choose to have the job you hate.
I have some advice for you.
Quit the job you hate. Walk away from misery. Change your life. Find happiness. Do something you want to do. Stop letting money control you. It's nobody's fault but yours.
And it's you that can stop it. Any damn time you want.