True Happiness.....

True happiness is not something that can be brought by money.... sometimes the poor people are more happy and enjoying their life more than the rich ones......
Today I talked with my maid and came to know that she and her husband after 14-15 years of marriage still eat together both the meals..... I was wondering that how happy she is...... she even laughs more than me...... she looks like contented.....
On the other side....... we are so much determined to make so much of money that in the process we miss many small pleasures of life...
I was reading a book "The monk who sold his ferrari" By Robin Sharma and got something very interesting......it says.... " The moment I stopped spending so much time chasing the big pleasures of life, I began to enjoy the little ones, like watching the stars dancing in moonlit sky or soaking in the sunbeams of a glorious summer morning "
And it's really true........

True value of money.....

One day my husband asked a question.... If every one (human) on this earth is given a huge amount of money and asked not to come for work just stay at home and enjoy then how will it be ????
When, everyone has a lot of money and no worry to go for work.... then neither farmers will go to their farms.... vegetables, grains and other things will not be cultivated , business person , shopkeepers etc. will not open their shops ....we may not get food (neither from store not from restaurant) clothes, books, electronic items, cinemas, malls,schools, colleges, jewelery shops,recreation centers.. everything will be closed..... Now we have money but don't have the things to spend it on.... then we may realize the true value of money.
Money in itself is nothing...... if one day whole world stops working then there is no value of money...
Money is valuable only because we work...... otherwise it's just a piece of paper.... which we cannot eat , can't drink, can't wear , it can't provide shelter, we can't play with, ,they can't provide us knowledge ...... nothing can be done with it.

Shifted House....

Sometimes I think what is more important -- money/valuables or happiness/life of a living being , well if the choice is between our money and our loved ones life,,, then surely life/happiness will be more important to us rather than money..... but if the choice is between our money/valuables and life of others(who are not closely related to us) then we may give more importance to our money.
Recently I shifted my house. I was quite happy with the guys(movers & packers) work .... they were putting all their effort .... packing and moving such heavy things(furniture and interiors etc.) from second floor all by stairs is not easy , and even I felt pity on them that I am paying much but they may get less as the company owner will take more profit from that......
They wrapped all the crockery items into paper then put them into the cartons ....suddenly a thought arise in my mind..... what if he dropped that carton and all my crockery gets broken.... he didn't do that but It's quite natural that if he would have done that....most of us in that case would have got angry and asked the person to work properly.... and all the pity feeling would have gone..
This happens when we are paying for somebody's work..... we think that they are working only for money(which is true) and good behavior from our side towards them is a bonus... if they do their work without any error then they may deserve the bonus otherwise no bonus for them ... which is wrong.... because if we compare money to any living being.... living being is always more precious..... because money in itself is nothing....
(I am not sure that it happens in developed countries also.... but in developing countries and other poor countries.... I guess it happens...)