I find it interesting how we choose to spend our time working in jobs to accumulate wealth to buy things, things to fill our time, fill our homes, to cover the very fleshy vessel that we use to perform our daily tasks at work, at our homes, etc.
I was brought to this very thought when someone in my family asked me why I didn't buy a new car. And looking over my last years finances and how much I worked, I could have. But I realized I instead bought other things invested in other parts of my life. For example, adopting a new pup and all of those expenses, purchasing gifts, and spending money on things like food and clothes that I would have in other years been overly reluctant due to the need of the expenses. I lived rather lavishly in other aspects than I have in most of my life. Upon returning to the realization that my time on this earth is limited and to invest in things that are unnecessary to my happiness and instead would bring more stress upon my need to financially succeed, I instead chose things of a more immediate gratification and something that I could see making progress before my eyes.
So, now that I have done so, perhaps it it time to start looking into a more mature investment, as some would call it, long term commitments and the like. Just start small and save up what I can for a while and look into becoming a purchaser of something more substantial than a full acrylic paint set or fancy goldfish or a treadmill and looking into something like a new car or a computer, or something more beneficial and multifaceted towards the future.
But then once you have all of these things, once I have all of these things what to do with them? Do I choose to just keep accumulating? I currently own quite the accumulation of wealth just in the objects I choose to invest in, my animals, my plants and my health. Those things are very important to me, and I never want to lose grasp on their value, tho they may not make me a millionaire or drive me to the end of the world or help me read the languages of many from anywhere in the globe. They have a value that is personal, and something I wish to keep investing in along with these more 'mature' investments that I seemingly cannot avoid due to my choices for where I project my path in life.
Sometimes I wonder if my choices are very wealthy, or if they are intent on just being choices that take me on a different path. Hopefully a better one.
