On the Value of Concerning over Wealth in Personal and Monetary Matters

There is something very fleeting to the nature of material possessiveness that permeates much of the inhabitants of the modern world, and this is not simply in the sense of quality or quantity; it is more of how in the long run what was once seemingly great in value (in terms of currency and personal value) all fall into obscurity.

Time renders all things subjective to its procession.

So much of what generalizes "personal ambition" in many of the minds in first world societies is that of obtaining and withholding more and more material goods, which in turn is perceived to promote more freedom in an individual or group of individuals to allow true happiness to manifest in their lives.

"The more, the merrier."

This conception of "quantitative happiness" does not only, however, pertain to only those with wealth. It pertains as well to those with little in their possession, individuals who strive to live simply without such luxuries. Rather more, they would seek to be content with what they have and desire nothing more to complicate their lives. In a sense, they would find serenity at its most prominent when they are in control of what personal objects and how they are conceptually unchecked by anything that would create disharmony within themselves.

"Less is more."

Yet, even though both ideologies promise some principle formula for obtaining happiness, the question raised to both prospects remains:

Does either lifestyle truly coincide with the notion of the individual's happiness as a contribution and replication of that same happiness to the whole of society?

And if one in fact does so, by what source does this perception of happiness stem from, and how does the nature of either lifestyle allow it to be discerned near universally as a logically deduced good?

In what can be understood of either notion, the individual is inherent to the equation, but the end means allot to a much wider social scale. If in all, this should be always kept in thought as we mediate through this ebb and flow of "wealth" both in the sense of personal(self ambition) and monetary(possessions material and immaterial), honing ourselves to direct our actions rationally if we wish to shape our world to function rightly and with good president.