Health Is Wealth

An English saying says “When the wealth is lost nothing is lost. When the health is lost something is lost…” Everyone has their own ideas and individual definitions as to what health and wealth is. Well, I’d like to give my personal opinion on this question. This could be taken in two different lights which I will share.

Since time immemorial, mankind has always strived to find money sources. As money is the commodity most in demand people want money to fulfil their needs. There are far too many things which are out of the reach of the middle and the working classes. A good education, expensive clothes, sports and games, travelling in comfort, owning the gadgets which add comfort to life - these are things which people with limited incomes cannot buy. There is no denying the value of money and the pleasure of enjoying it.

But unfortunately, wealth is hard to catch. People know that wealth is something they must work hard for and sometimes they do value money over health. If man resorts to every trick to make money, as a result, once he is drained of strength, exhausted and breathless through his hunt for wealth, he regrets having wasted his health and efforts in worshipping mammon. Wealth, therefore, is not always necessarily bound to bring people’s happiness but it sometimes causes them misfortunes too.

On the contrary, good health always brings about happiness. Abraham Maslow asserted that a person would need to fulfil basic needs before he moved on to higher-order needs. In line with this, health would be a basic priority; the creation of wealth would follow later on. Health is therefore not just wealth, but much more valuable. (A theory of human Motivation) Unhealthy persons are always worried due to their physical complications. Life of a healthy man is his long lasting wealth. It makes him able to enjoy life to the