Some thoughts on what we pursue.
Once we’re fortunate to have our essentials taken care of (security, food, shelter), we begin a journey in the pursuit of wealth.
The wealth we ultimately seek is the ability to have a rich life filled with great memories and quality time.
However, a rich life, like success and happiness, is an outcome that cannot be pursued. It ensues when we earn the right combination of inputs.
We can pursue two kinds of input wealth –
(a) External wealth (this is easily visible): Financial or status.
External wealth is a necessity. Financial wealth tends to be less fickle than status wealth.
(b) Internal wealth (this is visible only to self/close relationships): Physical (fitness), mental (equanimity), emotional (relationships/love), and spiritual (purpose).
Internal wealth, in the long run, often shows up in the amount of external wealth we have. Often but not always.
The challenge, in any given season of our life, is choosing which inputs to focus on and in what order.
