Satisfaction from Helping Others

Part 1

If you want to eat good and healthy food, if you want to have nice house, nice cars, nice computers, nice vacations, you have to get money. If you want to get yourself a beautiful wife, you better get money because money means social status. If you want to spend times with family and friends, you also need some money. They say money can’t buy happiness, but poverty can’t buy anything. But if you work hard, you lose the time you could spend enjoying life, you become too exhausted to enjoy the things that you have. So what is the point?

One answer is to find balance in all things. The balance is different for everyone, and we each have to find our own. You can even change it if you try. Learning to enjoy an austere life can give you more free time and less working for material things. It all used to just be cheesy platitudes for me, but I’ve come to realize that fewer hours at an “ok” job for simple pleasures can be the greatest success of all. For some people, it’s different, and that’s ok too.

Money generally correlates with social status, but it’s not the only thing. Skills also confer social status, and you can gain skills by finding a hobby you enjoy and getting good at it. Alternatively, you could pick a skill that will save you money and gain you social status, and you might learn you come to enjoy it. I used to hate cooking, for example, but I wanted to eat good and healthy food without breaking the bank, and now I’m not only good at, I enjoy it. Having mad cooking skills can also compensate for a thin wallet when it comes to getting yourself a wife, within reason.

If you are too exhausted to enjoy life after working then you aren’t in the right line of work or you aren’t consuming the right leisure. No one can tell you what the right play for you is, mostly because your wants and inclinations are unique and different from everyone else’s. What value is a nice computer? Well, that’s completely arbitrary. If what you are doing isn’t working for you, then try a different mix.

What if you’re a person who is not fulfilled by making lots of money or earning social status; rather you are truly fulfilled from a life of service, be it helping the poor, serving as a caretaker, volunteering as a soldier, etc. There are a lot of people that fall into this category. One such group is IAM Group Ltd – Seoul Korea. They are the type of people who rather help out the needy without anything gained.

IAM Group Ltd members I have met from around the world, like Yokohama Japan for example, they are very keen to making sure that we are helping for no compensation. They are always asking the members to remind themselves why are they here and what are they doing with their life at this point. I like their way of doing things. Truly, I made the right choice.