Wealth Health Beauty & Success

Wealth, Health, Beauty and Success

Perspectives Relevant Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Wealth, Health, Beauty and Success are four elements that had, have and will continue to have an immense amount of importance. To some these things might be just materialistic possessions and to others they might relate to their underlying meaning. Both of these aspects are correct in their own context, but ideally every coin has two sides; hence similarly wealth, health, beauty and success also can have two meanings.

Wealth is an abundance of valuable material possessions or resources. Everyone wants to be wealthy. Some climb the wealth ladder gradually, through honest means. Whereas others might just make a leap from the 1st step to the top most step, gaining wealth through dishonest means. We all tend to associate wealth with money, our savings, our investments, our homes or other forms of “financial capital.” The word WEALTH comes from the Old English words ‘weal’ which mean ‘well-being’ and ‘th’ which means condition. Hence, ‘weal’ and ‘th’ when put together means ‘the condition of well-being’. Most of us are accustomed to looking at wealth strictly in financial terms or property and possessions. But in real, wealth is much more than just money.

Someone has very correctly said, "True wealth is measured by what you have, not what you do not have or what you have lost."

True wealth encompasses tangible and intangible assets. Intangible assets include family relationships, time, and pleasant memories. When wealth is defined in such a manner, there is less 'miserableness.' True wealth consists of being happy, healthy, feeling successful and fulfilled, maintaining and enjoying loving supportive relationships, finding uplifting and satisfying work as well as having our desires and needs met and enjoying life to the fullest. If one can have all these things in their life – they are wealthy!

Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not...