Money Is Not Everything 金钱不是万能的

Money Is Not Everything 金钱不是万能的

Imagine you are Mr. Bill Gates. Life is great; you’re one of the richest men on the earth. You can buy anything in life, right? Wrong. Before you ride on the jet of euphoria and focus your entire life on earning money, know there are simply things that a roll of hundred dollar bills cannot get for you, not even if you are Mr. Gates.

想象一下假如你是世界富豪比尔•盖茨先生。生活真是美妙极了，你是世界上最富有的人之一。你可以买到人生中的一切，对吗？大错特错了。在你兴奋得飘飘欲仙之前，在你倾注一生所挣的财富之前，你要知道有些简单的东西是大把的钞票所买不来的，即便你是盖茨短也买不到。

If you are perplexed, let me explain my theory. It may sound like an oxymoron but money has its Achilles’ heel. All of our false perceptions about money have one common flaw—they identify money as something external to us, they identify money as the tool to accumulate abundance to please others by accumulating possessions.

如果我的理论让你疑惑了，那么请听我来解释一下。虽然听起来有点矛盾，但钱有它“致命的弱点”。我们关于钱的错误理解都有一个共通点——钱被定义为外在的东西，代表累积财富的工具，而累积的财产可以讨人喜欢。

What money can’t buy mostly lies within?Us. Nonetheless, trading our life energy for money can deprive us from inner nourishment that can eventually lead our lives into a downward spiral.

钱买不到的是我们内心中的东西。尽管如此，将毕生的精力放在赚钱上会失去内在的养份，最终导致生活质量螺旋式下降。

1. Time: Money is a tool for trade. With that said we spend a good chunk of our allotted time on this earth getting, spending, worrying and fantasizing about money. You can’t buy the time and save it in your storeroom even if you areMr. Gates. On the contrary, money takes away your time that could have been spent playing with your children or having a long walk with your alter ego. When the sun sets, a day goes away from our life forever. No money has power to bring that back to life.

1. 时间。钱是一种交易工具。也就是说，我们的时间是有限的，但我们却花大部分时间在赚钱，花钱，担心没钱，幻想有钱。你不能买下时间存在储藏室里，就算你是盖茨也不行。相反，为了赚钱，你无暇陪孩子嬉戏，和挚友散步也难抽出时间。夕阳西下，这一天就从我们生命中永远消失了。钱也没有能力把它买回来。

2. Self Awareness: Ignorance is bliss, right? It’s a curse. Not having self-awareness and self-consciousness lead to decisions that can cost you dearly. Well, the cost may be life Itself. As a result, many people live a mediocre life without living for a true purpose. Their ignorance can’t be transmuted into awareness with money. They believe that their ignorance is their awareness.

2. 自我意识。无知是福，对吗？这就像是诅咒。不知不觉地会让你付出昂贵的代价。嗯，这代价也许就是生活本身。结果很多人一生碌碌无为，没有真正的目标。钱不能将他们的无知变为有知。而他们却自认为他们无知是因为他们有知。

3. Self Esteem: I have a plethora of examples to prove that no money can purchase self-esteem. Self-esteem is earned from within. If you are your worst enemy, gods of money can’t rescue you from the self-destruction you inflict on yourself. King of rock Elvis Presley had theBest life one can imagine with no dearth of cash. He took his own life with the deprivation of self-esteem.

3. 自尊。我有很多例子可以证明钱买不到自尊。自尊是通过内在获得的。如果你是自己最大的敌人，财神不能将你从你自己酿造的自我毁灭的痛苦中解救出来。摇滚之王艾维斯•普雷斯利拥有你想象的最好的生活，拥有花不完的钱，但他最后却因为失去自尊而自杀了。

4. Health: As I write this, I found out that Senator Kennedy has brain cancer, and it is terminal. Of course money can get him the best health care possible but no money can buy insurance for a life. We buy insurance for just about everything including our life but money can never bring life back.

4. 健康。我在写这一条的时候得知肯尼迪议员患了脑癌，并且已经到了晚期。当然钱可以给他最好的医疗看护但却不能保证活命。我们买保险是为了保护我们的所有财产当然也包括我们的生命，但钱却不能让人起死回生。

5. Respect: Try this. Slap someone on his face and then hand him $100 to get his respect. Will you get it? I doubt it. We all live our life in pursuit of self-respect from peers, from family members, from our alter ego and even from strangers. No money can buy respect from others if our actions speak volumes about our negativity—insult, rudeness and lack of respect for others.

5. 尊敬。尝试一下这个，打别人一巴掌再给他100块让他尊敬你。你能得到尊敬吗？我觉得不太可能。我们一生都在追求同龄人的尊敬，家人的尊敬，挚友的尊敬，甚至陌生人的尊敬。如果我们的行为表现出了我们的消极面——傲慢、粗俗、对别人不尊重，那么这时候钱是买不到他人的尊敬的。

6. Happiness: This is controversial. Money can buy happiness if it is spent on to bring grater financial security for the family. However, money can’t buy happiness if the purpose is to make money to make other people happy. The chase of possession of possessions can never find its destination with incessant desire to accumulate more possessions. Happiness comes from within. When we trade so much time and energy to get money, we deprive our inner self from the food of happiness.

6. 幸福。这是个有争议的话题。钱如果花在给家庭带来更大的财政保障方面，是可以买到幸福的。但是，如果用钱来让人快乐，钱就不能买到幸福。渴望不断累积更多的财富而追求财富永远到达不了目的地。幸福是源于内心的。当我们花费了这么多时间和精力去赚钱时，就失去了内在幸福的养料。

I’m sure that you either are nodding your head in disbelief by now, or you’ve been enlightened by the revelation that, after all, money can’t buy some of what matters most in our life. I’ll be glad to get a zap or a hug from you.

可以肯定的是，现在你或者会怀疑地点点头，或者已得到启发，钱终究买不到对生活很重要的一些东西。你赞成也好，反对也罢，我都乐于接受。

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