Money Are Just Numbers?

I won’t quite agree to that as money is needed to pay your rent and bills, and also to get the groceries so money is the subsistence or substance needed for life. So no money almost equals to no life, is how I look at it.

But then recently I found this podcast, which told the story of a woman who was cheated upon by her husband. Sounds normal enough in this day and age, but the peculiar bit is that they both have net worths in millions. Not surprising right, since Bill Gates made the same mistake? But Bill or Miranda Gates don’t tell their story (or at least I don’t know) of how they spend their money. This podcast do tell about the private and sensitive information, like how much she spends and earns per month.

She said that she earns hundred thousands a month and she spent little. I am dubious how little that would be and she said it was around USD 30,000. Still 10 times the minimum UK wage, but in comparison to how much she earns? I do agree it is little. Then she went on about how she lived her life and what she wants, and it sounds so … plain? I say that in a good way, by the way.

She said she likes to go on holiday, go to nice restaurants, while right now living alone in a small apartment with a nice view. She said she would like to have a small family too. All of them sounds very reasonable and it doesn’t seem to need millions of dollars to do them too. She threw some numbers about her investments, business earnings and her incomes, but the way she said it, it can be 3 thousand, or even 3 millions. The zero in the end doesn’t seem that significant. I guess that’s why numbers start at 1 and ends at 9; after a while, the zeroes do not matter.

But of course for now, those zeroes matter to me and to most people that I know, and I assume it would be to you too. I make dua that one day I would be able to do the same thing, where the money doesn’t matter and I can do what matters the most to me, and the human kind.

Thank you for reading.