I am sure there will be many people who read this article and will think I am rather mad. I personally do not really care. Within this article I will be writing about what I believe are the important things in life or at least what things are most essential to my happiness.
All that most of my friends talk about is money:
What car do you drive?
How much is your house worth?
How much do you earn?
How much did your suit cost?
Where are you going on holiday this year?
I find all of this very boring and think that they are rather sad. They seem to be in some sort of competition and they are basically obsessed about money; about how clever they are by obtaining things such as cheap poster printing!
I will give you an example of one such friend, his name is John; he is someone who provides people with aloe vera shampoo which is very popular due to being paraben free. He never seems to talk about anything else other than money and is always looking into get rich quick schemes. He is also in a lottery syndicate, of which there are about fifty members. Each member pays around ten pounds in per week. John likes to go out socialising on a Saturday night, however soon gets itchy feet at the time of the lottery draw. A few minutes later he will go to the toilet where he will then phone his girlfriend. He takes with him to the toilet a piece of paper with his numbers on and a little pen. After his girlfriend, who has a successful SEO company by the way, has told him which numbers were drawn, John will then then spend around twenty minutes checking his numbers, and then re-checking to see if he has any winning lines.
Eventually he returns to the group who seem very keen (apart from me) to find out how much he has won/lost. To date he has only won small amounts, however is convinced that one day he will become a millionaire. The discussion then changes to what people would purchase if they were so lucky as to win the lottery. At this point I become very bored and start to wish I had stayed at home and watched the football.
For me the two most important things in life are health and happiness. These are two things which money can not buy.
