Money solves Everything?

There was a story on the news a while ago... A young man (17 years old) was killed in a horrible car accident. After the autopsy, his family held his funeral and buried him. Several months later, a school group was going on a field trip to the mortuary and they saw a brain preserved in a jar, with the name of the young man on the label. They knew this young man and knew his family, and were quite upset. As were the family when they learned of it. They hadn't given permission for his brain to be kept. The pathologist says that they often hold organs for extended analysis afterwards. The family asked for the brain back and then held a second funeral to inter those remains. Plus, they are suing the city and the pathologist.

So, it's obvious that this family has been through a lot. They have experienced a lot of emotional heartache and the brain thing contributed to that. My question is... does the money received through litigation take the pain away? Make the experience go away? Wipe away their memories of the event? Bring back the young man. The answer, sad to say, is no... Money does none of that. Money can't help them to let go of anything... Even if the money paid for counselling and therapy, there is no guarantee that the family would be able to let go of anything.

Money solves nothing. But we have it in our heads that money will make us happy. Money can actually make us desperately unhappy. We think that money will take away all of our worries. Money can actually increase our worries. Oprah was interviewing J.K. Rowling a while ago (she of Harry Potter fame) and asked Rowling if, given that she is now richer than the Queen... she still worries about money. The answer is... yes... she still does. Money hasn't taken away her worries...

We place far too much emphasis on money... on what it can do for us... when we are the only ones who can do anything... or be anything... It is always our choice... You can be happy when you are poor. You can be desperately unhappy when you are rich. The difference lies within you...