Mind Blowing Email I received

[DevilGirl]

Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think the article is only about the company Volvo.

The overall important point to take away from the article is not just about how different things are manufactured. It speaks more about the overall quality of our lives. Finding the balance between work and play. Not making the job the top priority in life.

In the end, sure we may have spent the bulk of our time working. But what about the rest of the time? What were we doing with it? We were spending time with our families or friends? Were we relaxing in any way? What was our constant stress levels at?


The vast majority of the USA lead their lives with work being the only thing on their mind. All about making the money to buy the most expensive things, and in the end, still not being satisfied. They stress over having money, having toys, needing to work overtime constantly.

Life is not about the having the most toys, but about how we spent our lives. My fiancee and I are examples of that. We work way too many hours. Most of that goes to pay off bills (such as credit cards), because we would use the credit cards to buy all the new gadgets that have come out, yet we don't have time to use them since we're working all the time to pay for them.

Whereas friends of ours, they have a small home (paying the mortgage), they don't have cable (they do have the internet though), only just recently got cell phones... While they may not have a whole lot of money left over at the end of the day, they have what a lot of us don't have: being happy with who they are, where they are.