Originally posted by: Gauri_3
sweetheart, please stick to red while making your points.
contrary to the stress on materialistic things in today's world, every now and then even we normal people get a taste of who the higher power is and how we can't buy certain things even if we are stinking rich.
An example to reiterate mey point:
My friend's house caught fire last summer. Everything was burnt to cinders. By nearly miraculous circumstances all family members escaped w/o a scratch. They claimed insurance and started rebuilding soon. In about six months, they were apparently back to normal as the new house was built, furniture bought etc. Going by your logic, her life should be back to normal as she had the money to buy all material things she lost in the fire. But the reality is far from it.
All her wedding and other albums also burnt.....only copy burnt with negatives etc. The pictures also included age old pictures of her grandparents and parents. She can't replace these things now even with all the money in the world. It still hurts her.
Her 18 month old grand kid was playing in the second story gameroom when he was picked up and brought down. The child was traumatized for a long long time and terribly missed his security blanket and favorite teddy that burnt too.
Everything that was valuable by world's standard, the money, the credit cards, the clothes. the furniture was replaced. But it were the things with personal emotional values like age old family pictures, her and DIL'S wedding outfits, the dress that the grand kid wore for the first time, the prints of the grand baby's l'il feet and hands etc. ....things with greatest value to her- things that money can't buy were lost forever.
Mind that, this is a well to do family with ample money....but they still grieve for the real treasure that they lost forever.
There are certain things money can buy but then, there are plenty others that no monies in this world can ever replace.
Anshu - Its all emotional aspects and mind block. Contradicting you statement here "we can't buy certain things even if we are stinking rich" one cannot achieve certain important emotional aspects or certain things without being rich.
Taking your example what are photos / alnums etc aren't they materislistic elements to capture emotional aspect or recalling memories.. well memory is natural wealth cannot be lost why depend of pictures. However if materialistic picture were of utmost importance then risk of fire could have been factor simply by buying a fire proof box. If ample of money then the moments of past could have be recreated not with same zeal.. but still something closer with the help of money.
*Edit , since not been addressed yet, being fair here.😊
Regarding the scenario you mentioned. First of of God Forbid this happens with anyone... what ask - If in case the insurance was denied due to XYZ clause - then would the affect party cared about the photo albums or the monetary loss? We all know the answer, see how important role money plays to think anything can be bought by money... think on higher side of it.
reminder: debate is not between no money vs. all money. Debate is, assuming you have enough, then what do you think...can money buy everything OR it can not buy everything. I demonstrated above that no matter how much money you have, there are certain things that money can never buy.
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