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I usually see life as a series of elements that need to be balanced to achieve a certain harmony, making life more like a serene and manageable journey.

Many people believe that money is everything and brings happiness, and I often imagine it metaphorically as if the balance of life were a rod with a support point right at its center of mass.

Certainly, the balance depends on what we place on the rod; sometimes it will sway or teeter more to one side than the other, making our life a bit more unstable, but… that’s just how it is! Life fluctuates and is constantly changing, like the weights we place on each side of the rod.

Many times, we don’t even place these weights ourselves; most of the time, I’d dare say, they are weights beyond our control. Sometimes it rains, and the small drops cause the rod to wobble; other times, the wind blows hard and disturbs that delicate balance that keeps our life in order.

This is where I begin to reflect on the role money plays in this analogy, and the best fit I see for money is that it determines the size of our rod. If we have a lot of money, the rod will be longer, and as a result, it will be harder for things beyond our control to disturb our balance.