Prior to how the financial world is about building and grinding. Its is only a little part of the equation when it comes to what matters to you and what doesn't, who matters to you and who doesn't. However while we can't know for sure what matters to us and who does. We need not try to push ourselves over the extreme end about what we think matters or who matters at the moment.
Besides, what matters right now in most cases may not matter that much moving forward and that is not to say what we left or who we left behind is now insignificant because we now have a new groove, a new car, a new friend or a new job.
Likewise what doesn't matter(like our old car) and who doesn't matter right now(like our old friend) can be without a doubt a crucial part of the equation while moving forward or not.
With this in mind, what money is to us today and what it isn't, may as well change as we move on with life. How much matters to us right now may not matter to us moving forward especially when we attain some level of insight and perspective about what we want out of life and why we want them. How much attention we want and why we want them. Whom we like to spend our time with and who we dont. Likewise how much money we dont want or is irrelevant to us.
But is there an insignificant amount of money
indeed there is to some
Like some would consider earning a cent on hive for a post as a lost effort and therefore see it as something they dont want moving forward. However we cant arrive at a dollar without those cents first setting the motion nor a million dollar without grinding and building from the everyday dollar to dollar accumulation.
You cant get to the end without the beginning
same way you can't have a bull market without a bear market
In this way we measure our lives and those around us thinking why would a bear market or some broke little guy matter to me when indeed I can ride with the bulls when they come and chill with the big guys. Apart from this, when its about giving financial advise which I rather not, I like to say to people to do what it is they can and leave what they cant. But this is untrue as ive realized that what it is you think you can't do might be exactly what you need to do moving forward.
The bear is those times when people don't want to do what they can and the bulls is when they do eveything they can - write, buy and invest thinking the bear is nothing to them whearas when the tides turn and the bulls which is motly short lives ends they find it hard to act in the bear season.
Like when my new car gets faulty and my new friend leave me for old friend, how do I ride my old car that I now hate and my old friend that ive now trashed because of a new friend that I thought would stay forever - the bulls never stays so does the bears but we need not attack the bears and praise the bull because it when everything goes up.
Finally just like gravity - what goes up surely comes down but as long as the bears and bulls is coming and going, new feiends coming and going, new cars turning to old cars. There is no use bugging ourselves thinking and judging that one is better than the other, because you cant have a bull season without a bear season (ying &yang) but you can always do what you don't want to do in the bull & bear which is write for cents and not bother if the bull will come or not.
In short what matter today can always matter forever I.e have a good relationship with people as beat as you can without judging their actions. Same as we can do what we can either in the bull or the bear without ranting about why the bull season is taling so long.
A conversation sparked this post where a friend though writing for cents is pointless and my reply was why not just do that which you dont want to do i.e write for cents if that what the moment offers instead of being complacent about big rewards.