Which one should I pick among money, intellect, & love ?

Which one should I pick among money, intellect, & love ?

The question may be simple but accountable. If you are asked to pick one of these 3 for your entire life, which one will you choose ?

To make the question more simple, You like yourself to be called as intellectual person, or rich person, or kind person.

It is very difficult for a common man to choose, because all these 3 are needed at some part of our life time. Here I'm not including the minority ascetic people in consideration but only a laypeople. 

• Money never comes our way, until we go and get it;
• Love never comes our way, until we go and share it;
• Intellect never comes our way, until we go and find it;

Intellect is nothing but a thought, love is nothing but an emotion but money is just a man made thing newly added for this competition. 

Love : 

Love makes you to do of something which cannot be done by money and intellect; It keeps the bonds of relationships and makes the planet livable for humans, Else it would be mob of machines at homes just like a robot without any emotions. If you think you can reach the fame with money or intellect alone, I will show you how Mother Teresa got her fame with her love. The more you share love, more you lose yourself. Your intellect and money cannot help you when you are old, who needs to be loved. 

But can we live happily only with love ? my answer would be a big No. Practically speaking, nowadays even to share the love, we need money and intellect. Your child doesn't always expects your kisses, sometimes he needs cloths and toys he likes. 

Money can help you to buy a dog, Intellect can help you to choose which dog to buy. Only Love can able make him wag his tail. Love alone can give you the soul satisfaction & peace.

Money: 

There is a famous saying “It is better to cry in a BMW rather than on a cycle”. This statement is indeed true. It is better to be comfortably unhappy than being uncomfortably unhappy.

Money is the only man made thing which can conquer the intellect and love. The more you get it, more it demands your attention. Now situations are changed in such a way that we need money even to live, which wasn't existed when humans were created. We need money to survive, to be comfortable, to indulge and enjoy ourselves. It is required to fulfill the basic needs of humans - water, food & shelter.

Money cannot buy happiness, but surely money can buy a thing you like which makes you happy. If I need to eat something which I like, I need money. There I get the happiness.

Intellect :

Money can say it is important, but it can be lost. Love can say it is important, but it can be broken. Only intellect can be a life long treasaure. You can buy a thing with money, But intellect needs to there to tell which is right to buy. You can make a relationship with love, But you need intellect to know which is not fake. 

One cannot buy a solution to save oneself in utter emergency situations. One has to have the intellect to deal with it. More intellectual people are being remembered in history than rich/kind people.  

There are certain things which cannot be bought by love & money but with only intellect, And they are manners, common sense, morals, class, integrity, etc..

It is quite difficult to come to a conclusion as they are from different category but entwined together. It is individual's responsibility to know how to use these 3 in their life.

• Love is to share, but we need money to share it; 
• Money is to share, but we need love to share it; 
• Intellect is understanding the above, but we need a life to know this;

If I had to chose one, I cannot choose one option alone...

Regards,

Joachin Joseph

Football is not just a game, It is life.

I have seen people often contemplate their life as if it a race, the faster you go, farther you go. To be frankly honest, it is not the case. Life can never be the game of race where you move yourself in a defined route but I would like to compare it with the game of football. In football, players often have to change the route for the same goal according to the situation. Secret of winning the race is pulling up the socks and keep running in your path, but the reality in the life is other way around. We need to know when to move forward and stop in life. 

While you have a goal in your mind, moving faster is not a best route or even not possible at times. Some routes, like career takes 3 times longer, and some are dead ends. It is not who reaches first, but it is who reaches. Why I compare the life with the game of football ?, simply because everyone doesn't have the same goal and doesn't start at the same place. Do not set your goals by what other people deem important. Only you know what is best for you. We are made to reach our goals by facing many opponents, adversities, calamities, hardships, sacrifices, failures, misfortunes etc.

The most important thing in reaching the goal is not 'when' but 'how'. Successful people are the ones who moves forward when they can and look for other opportunities when they cannot move in forward. Also We must be ready to adapt and look for different route when there is an obstacle or an opponent in life. In this competitive world if we are not ready to backtrack, then we are lost in the journey.

Always pay attention to where you are, Do not compare yourself with others. Say to yourself, "I have the time to get everything done that what are my goals in my life". Everything always works out if You don't rush. Goodness of reaching the goals in life is not winning but completing.

Regards,

Joachin Joseph

What you discuss ?

Great minds discuss idea. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Whether a male or female, both spends a considerable minutes of time in discussions with their friends, colleagues, family members etc, But how healthy & useful are those discussions to their intellectual life. Most of our day to day discussions can be categorized within the topic idea, events and people. If you find yourself falling under the category of events or people, You need not to worry, Redirect your discussion to a level better than what you have now, Because useless discussions are not a way towards your journey success.

When I think about this quote little deeper, It gives me so many abstract questions. It doesn't describe what the Poet's intention was, when she says great mind. Does she mean the great mind as intelligent one or significant about life? But in both the cases intelligent and significant people had ideas about what they want to do.  

Roosevelt was quite clear in her saying, I hope. She doesn't emphasize "Great mind discuss only idea" or "Only great mind discuss idea". It is not claiming any infallible law. I think this quote would have risen in her mind out of her observations, but that is often true isn't ? Also Look objectively at the various spheres of people you came across? The ones that gossip all the times, how many instances it triggered your insight? Candidly? Honestly? The ones I know, don't mostly. 

Also It gives me a feel that, Roosevelt intention in saying "great mind" was to describe the state of intellect thoughts than a person. 

People may ask whether the great minds doesn't discuss the events or people, Or People discussing events and people are having small mind. Yeah, everyone discusses all those at some point of their life, but the saying is clearly referring to the proclivities of said minds and not their only actions. Also the word "Discuss" connotes a deeper conversation than just small casual talk. Intelligent people will spend more of their time thinking about grand ideas than average minds. The average mind finds itself in thinking the worries of the past and the anxieties of the future. 

So I would say, what you discuss is the indicative of the true scale of your opulent eruditeness. How would you fit your quality of discussions among the three mentioned categories above? This made me think, Is that why the genius and brilliant people in the history hated socializing. There is some truth in there, isn't?