The most fundamental reward of love given, is how often love is returned.
I wonder why it takes us so long to learn lessons like this? Such are the lessons of life, simple lessons some seem destined never to learn at all. Sadly I think this lack of learning of life’s most fundamental lessons is more widespread now than it ever has been before.
Why? Because of tricks played with time…
First, we are tricked into thinking we have no time. Then we’re tricked into selling what little time we do have, for inadequate reward. Then, because of the inadequate rewards granted by the second trick, we’re tricked again into taking precious time from those we love and literally giving still more of it to corporations that simply do not care. We’re tricked into leading such ridiculously “busy” lives we find we lack time to think about the things that really matter.
Those things we’re tricked into believing we don’t have time to think about aren’t really things at all… they’re people, and living beings, and life, and love, and liberty, and happiness, and truth, and so much more. They’re the essential things that make life worth living. Unfortunately not one of them is something which the money we get in inadequate exchange for our precious time will ever allow us to buy.
Everyone should know the true reward of love given is love returned. If you’re reading my blog, or my books, or my tweets you already know that without needing anyone to tell you. You know beyond any doubt that love’s reward is love’s return.
Now I ask you this question. What is the reward of money?
The answer is simple – the reward of money exchanged, is things.
Too bad those tangible things we receive in exchange for money aren’t any of the things that make life worth living. Why? Because only love buys those.
Perhaps the skeptics might gleefully ask, “But what is the reward of money retained?” I have an answer for that as well. It is a hoard. Now there’s a fascinating word – hoard. Look it up to refresh or fix its meaning in your mind – I think you’ll find hoards are generally rather selfish things. {Generally…}
