Limitations of Money

“The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart” -- Helen Keller

Here now are some of the most important things you can not acquire with money.

A home: Money can and has built the most beautiful houses on this planet but certainly not homes. As you walk along the streets every day, you see many houses but among all these are very few homes. Houses are built with physical, visible and aesthetic materials but homes are built with important but intangible things like love, peace and harmony and the spirit of wellbeing. All these money can not buy.

Wisdom: Money can buy all the books in this word. It can hire the best teachers around but it can not buy wisdom. It can pay for the best schools but it can not make you wise. This is the main reason why anybody can make money buy very few can retain and grow it. That a man is rich does not necessarily make him a wise-man. Money has never been known to buy anyone wisdom.

Happiness: Money can pay for entertainment. It can pay for any type of amusement but it can not buy happiness. Happiness is a thing of the mind that can not be touched. It can only be felt. He who feels it knows it. Many rich people live unhappy lives while many poor people live happily within their means.

Sleep: Money can buy a good bed, provide the best ambience in a room but it can not buy sleep. Most of the wealthiest men and women around can not sleep well without drug inducement which damages their health on the long run.

Appetite: Money can buy the best food around but it can not buy appetite. Many intangible but very important things like good health and peace of mind are the primary determinants of good appetite. All these money can not buy.

Health: Money can buy the best medicine, pay the best doctors and pay for the best hospitals but it certainly can not buy health. If it could, no rich man will ever fall sick.

Marriage: Money can buy you a beautiful and expensive wedding ring but not marriage. Love and affection which are the bed-rocks of any successful marriage are things of the mind and they can not be bought with money.

Friends: Money can provide companions, praise-singers and sycophants but not friends. Friendship is a symbiotic relationship and it requires mutual collaboration and self-respect which money can not buy.

Beauty: Money can buy you the best clothes, cosmetics and general fineries but it can not buy you beauty. The good Lord Himself is in charge of beauty factory and every one knows He does not take bribes and He can not be bought. Many people have paid the supreme price trying to alter their looks by cosmetic surgery. The beauty business is today a multi-billion dollar business all over the world, all in vain attempts to alter God’s hand-work. Their success rate is dismal and it is there for all to see.

Time: Money can buy you a clock but not time. God is a God of equity hence the rich and the poor have only 24 hours in a day. No amount of money can buy additional minute for anyone no matter how rich. Time waits for no one whether rich or poor. God credits us with equal amounts on daily basis. This is what it has been and what it will forever be.