MONEY OR CONTENT LIFE????

Hang on a second. Don’t make the unforgivable mistake of rushing to an answer. Your answer might just lead you to a never-ending debate with your friends or more dangerously, yourself. Both money and a content life are tremendously related to each other. Naturally, to lead a content life, you need lots of green paper.( I can sense a few raised eyebrows). But it’s not as simple as that, you see. Let’s scrutinize both sides of the coin.

Let’s   start with those who went for the ever-so-obvious answer of ‘A Happy Content Life’. This was obviously an impulsive choice (You definitely wouldn’t want to appear greedy by travelling down the other road). Some of you might have even answered it through the evergreen melodramatic question, ‘Can money buy happiness?’ But the bigger issue here is not your choice. The bigger issue is that is it the right one? If you truly believe in a happy content life, then you’ve seriously got to stop complaining about the evergreen 3 lakh TCS placement package. A content life implies that you’re satisfied,and it's human tendency that one you're satisfied, progress stops. So typically speaking, if your ancestors shared the same thoughts you do, then we definitely would still be covering ourselves with leaves (Goosebumps).

Now, lets flip the coin and look at the other side, the people who opted for money. As I write, I can imagine Amitabh Bachchan saying, ‘ Mere paas maa hai’. If you keep aside Mr. Bachchan’s brilliance in delivering the dialogue and just ponder over what he said, you will realize that money & content life are 180 degrees apart. If you’ve chosen money then you’re obviously ambitious (or over ambitious), which is definitely a good quality.

Most people will settle for the “Content life” answer because they know deep inside that their entire lives will be wasted running after money and yet they won’t have anything. It is this fear of failure, not money that has kept humankind from achieving miracles. But it all comes back to one basic question, that when push comes to shove, money won’t help you as much as the support of loved ones. After all Leo Tolstoy very rightly said, six feet from his head to his heels, is all the land a man requires after he is dead.

So, I think you’re now informed or clear minded enough to answer the title of this article. Go ahead, pick a choice but make sure you have enough points to defend yourselves!

----DIGVIJAY CHAND