Author Topic: 10 things that money can't buy (Read 1393 times)

islander · « **on:** August 21, 2013, 04:23:58 PM »

10 things that money can't buy

Siddhartha Sharma

Here is how mankind tells money, quoting from the Book of Job: "Thus far shalt thou go, and no farther." Here are the ten things money can't buy.

1. Family and friends

The greenbacks won't bring you any closer to your family if you are far too busy earning them. Nor will they guarantee your family understands you at all. (Mummy's cooking is a sub-group in this 'things you can't buy anywhere' list.)

There are exceptions to this. You might just pay off irritating in-laws to stay out of your hair, or order a hit on them. But in the normal course...

With friends, it works the same way, only more so. If your wealth draws them, they aren't real. If they don't stay, or your life has no place for them, you are on your own. With real friends, you've almost got it made.

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islander · « **Reply #1 on:** August 21, 2013, 04:25:42 PM »

2. Home

Get married, start a family, have kids. Will they grow up into fine people? Have you got the hang of father/motherhood? Is your home really your castle, a cocoon of comfort? Or is it just a house with people in it? The card really stops here.

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islander · « **Reply #2 on:** August 21, 2013, 04:26:44 PM »

3. Happiness

Alright, cliched, but it gets truer as the years pass. There is always something missing whether you are on the beach at Algarve or adding the newest antique wood furniture to your collection. If you can't get at the root of it, everything you can get is merely a narcotic.

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islander · « **Reply #3 on:** August 21, 2013, 04:27:32 PM »

4. Peace

Here is the big one, ever since they started asking smart questions to beauty contestants. The small peace is inside your head and that is elusive enough to come by, for which you have antacids and Ketorol, which only push it away for another day. Also think world peace and other big matters. What if they nuke the city? Kidding.

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islander · « **Reply #4 on:** August 21, 2013, 04:31:46 PM »

5. Immortality

If you can make it for three decades on top of the Forbes list, that is a measure of fame. But to be truly immortal requires other things, other ways of striving. Ever wondered how some dirt-poor hardscrabble guys have instant recall value centuries afterwards? And literal immortality is yet several pages farther in human civilisation's sci-fi book. Best you can do is get a ticket on Sir Richard Branson's space taxi.

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islander · « **Reply #5 on:** August 21, 2013, 04:32:38 PM »

6. Respect

You can smirk at the poor ants down below on the street, but they will pull faces behind your back if you are the sort who is perpetually asking for it. Dignity is the most fragile of public possessions. And God help you if they know about the skeletons in your closet or that you were called Stinky as a kid. This is one asset you really need to work on all the time to earn...

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islander · « **Reply #6 on:** August 21, 2013, 04:35:46 PM »

7. Talent

Another cliched, misused, misunderstood word, like creativity, and maybe no one knows what it is anymore, but you are either born with it or not. No way you can get a bill of sale on this one. What you do with it is of course your business. History has been very frequently marked with astonishing examples of creativity outdoing... well, money and everything else. Possibly the best example is Leonardo da Vinci and a certain portrait of a woman. He took 16 years to paint it, did not bother to name it, packed it with himself wherever he travelled in Europe, refused to sell it to kings and counts. It was ultimately sold by his assistant after he died. Someone down the line decided to call it the Mona Lisa.

At the other end of the example is Vincent Van Gogh. All that talent and he sold just one painting of the nearly thousand he made, struggling with poverty all along. Didn't make a difference either way: in 1990, his Portrait of Dr Gachet went under the hammer for a current equivalent of $ 136.1 million, making it the fourth most expensive painting ever sold.

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islander · « **Reply #7 on:** August 21, 2013, 04:36:31 PM »

8. Health

Sure healthcare costs being the way they are, you need all the money you can lay your hands on when it comes to facing the bills and pills and the doctor scaring you with a dozen different possible diseases you have never heard about. But, viewed sanely, a good efficient treatment is not that much of a substitute for a good healthy life. Isn't it better not to need healthcare in the first place?

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islander · « **Reply #8 on:** August 21, 2013, 04:37:03 PM »

9. Love

It matters, that little empty feeling when you are sitting with a Sauvignon Blanc (for choice) on your balcony on a Saturday evening and twenty sober thoughts in your head, and no one to tell them to. That feeling of intense loneliness can neither be bought off, papered over or told to keep quiet and leave the room. Someone says, "Money can't buy love, but with all the other things it can, I'll give love a miss." Your call. You still have the Sauvignon Blanc...

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islander · « **Reply #9 on:** August 21, 2013, 04:39:04 PM »

10. Character

In case it matters. It is a sneaky creature, goes by other strange names like virtue and righteousness and at one time, if we remember reading correctly, a certain generation used to call it "true wealth". We don't really know whether it is around in these times but if you are looking to have it, it has to come from within. Or some such thing...

Meanwhile, enjoy what you have, but as John Buchan says, "Sit easy on your comforts."

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balong · « **Reply #10 on:** August 21, 2013, 06:20:00 PM »

money cant buy LOVE

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islander · « **Reply #11 on:** August 21, 2013, 07:45:55 PM »

money can't buy tb people's loyalty.

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balong · « **Reply #12 on:** August 21, 2013, 08:02:08 PM »

you said i was buying peoples loyalty. that is your opinion and you are entitled to it. kong mihatag ko ug $200 ni votives,it was out of the goodness of my heart, it was a no strings attached offer. madame, i hope you send a little bit from your dollar account. prayer and pilak is good

kong mang hatag ko ug kwarta, i am not buying peoples loyalty. i am not a candidate for any political office. giving money away is my idea of having fun.

share your blessings madame

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balong · « **Reply #13 on:** August 21, 2013, 08:08:06 PM »

i am having so much fun madame. i am turning the tables on you. copying your own technique. whatever you say will turn against you.

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islander · « **Reply #14 on:** August 21, 2013, 08:23:37 PM »

corny. dia na sad ang kusog magtumo-tumo, balik-balik sa kaluod.

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balong · « **Reply #15 on:** August 21, 2013, 09:44:30 PM »

corny. dia na sad ang kusog magtumo-tumo, balik-balik sa kaluod.

i may be corny but i am just saying the truth

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balong · « **Reply #16 on:** August 21, 2013, 09:45:53 PM »

kong lud-on ka sa masakit nga kamatuoran, dont blame me

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hubag bohol · « **Reply #17 on:** August 21, 2013, 10:08:26 PM »

Money can't buy love, for sure. Labi na kon potot ka unta bati pa jud og nawong, bisag unsaon nimong panghambog nga daghan kag kwarta (which is in serious doubt in the minds of many), magpabilin kang kataw-anan, as you really are...

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balong · « **Reply #18 on:** August 21, 2013, 10:43:29 PM »

Money can't buy love, for sure. Labi na kon potot ka unta bati pa jud og nawong, bisag unsaon nimong panghambog nga daghan kag kwarta (which is in serious doubt in the minds of many), magpabilin kang kataw-anan, as you really are...

hala ikaw na lay mag chess tournament oi kay di man ka motoo nga daghan ko ug kwarta

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balong · « **Reply #19 on:** August 21, 2013, 10:45:41 PM »

Money can't buy love, for sure. Labi na kon potot ka unta bati pa jud og nawong, bisag unsaon nimong panghambog nga daghan kag kwarta (which is in serious doubt in the minds of many), magpabilin kang kataw-anan, as you really are...

abi nimo mr. hubak. potot ko unja maot nawong. pero inig tanaw sa baje naho, lupig pa si brad pitt. kay daghan man ko ug kwarta. gina piko gina pala

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islander · « **Reply #20 on:** August 22, 2013, 06:02:06 AM »

por santo. naay tawo nga way respeto ug baye. kay nagtoo nga ang kwarta ang pinaka-importante para niya, nagtoo na lang pod tawon nga ang mga baye mapalit ra pod. kanyahay ra wa gyod tawoy bayeng molahotay.

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