Money, Happiness and Success !!!

खुश है ज़माना आज पहली तारीख है......Most of us would have heard this  as an old hindi song or in cadbury's jingle that comes on the first and last week of every month on television. Money and happiness are considered interrelated by most of us.
I came across this wonderful saying in a news daily recently.  " How much money it costs is not the issue, but how much the money costs us is important".
As one of our Hindu saint puts it - We spend half our health to gain wealth and spend half our wealth to gain back the health. Is this called success? No, its a very bad mathematics !!! Are money, career, and power the only measure of success? or
Should family, health, love and memories count much more ?

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Hari said…
Aaha.. Thathuvam... Thathuvam... Pineeteenga ka....
1 February 2010 at 22:41
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