15 essential luxuries everyone must have and should not miss
In this article you will learn the following
-15 real luxuries of today — you need to focus-on and acquire
-10 Things we need to learn to value — to create luxuries that money can’t buy
-19 Luxuries in the pre-social-media and pre-mobile and pre-internet days
- Progressive change in the definition of materialistic luxury
Most of the real luxuries are not those you can buy.
What you can indulge-in which is possible only because of wealth — in earlier stages of your life — can certainly give you sensual pleasures, boost your EGO, can make you feel proud.
But at much later stage when you have acquired real-wisdom — you would realize that all those which felt like real-luxuries were good but not the real-luxuries.
I have identified 15 luxuries which I feel is must for each one of us — irrespective of your social-financial-professional-political status.
15 real luxuries of today you need to focus-on and acquire
- 1.Your being emotionally healthy
- 2.Your being fully comfortable with who you are
- 3.Your being mentally agile
- 4.Your being physically fit
- 5.Your being meaningfully engaged professionally
- 6.Your having great quality relationships with all your important people
- 7.Your loved ones being happy and growing
- 8.Your living a life based on your passion
- 9.Your learning, unlearning and relearning
- 10.Your making contribution — which makes your loved ones grow the best they can in the area they are interested in
- 11.Your making a positive difference to people around you
- 12.Your leaving a legacy of powerful positive benchmarks
- 13.Your standing for meaningful values
- 14.Your lifting-up of people who can’t do themselves
- 15.Your experiencing the nature — the Himalayas, the sea, the desert, the birds, the sunshine, the rains
10 Things we need to learn to value — to create luxuries that money can’t buy
- 1.Your mental-emotional-physical-social-financial and relationship Health,
- 2.What and How you Eat
- 3.Your most trustable and bankable relationships & Your loved-ones
- 4.Your wellbeing
- 5.Quality and Type of people you have in your circle
- 6.The habits that you have — including your habits of mind
- 7.Your Money — where you spend, where you save and how you earn and invest
- 8.Your time — are you using it most meaningfully
- 9.Your commitment
- 10.Your being respectable and honorable
Progressive change in the definition of materialistic luxury
- 1.I came from an era — where owning a bicycle was a luxury
- 2.Then owning telephone, television, refrigerator, home-theatre, video-player, scooter, car, computer became luxuries
- 3.Then able to go on a cruise, traveling first class and staying in 5-star hotels and ability to do what you want and buy what you want became luxuries
19 Luxuries in the pre-social-media and pre-mobile and pre-internet days
- 1.Spending summer holidays — with your cousins at your aunt and uncle’s place
- 2.And relatives coming to stay for weeks
- 3.Travelling by train for 2–3 days in coal-engine driven trains
- 4.Neighborhood female jointly making papad, pickle, potato-chips
- 5.Mothers knitting woolen sweaters, socks and caps
- 6.Sundays having a late leisurely home-cooked food — maybe by fathers
- 7.Marriages would happen in the neighborhood with everyone sharing their rooms, linen and food — no hotels or caterers
- 8.People jointly sharing festivals
- 9.We will wait for the postman & post letters in the post-box
- 10.We will write long letters by hand
- 11.We will send telegram from telegraph office
- 12.We will make national/domestic calls from the airports/telegraph centers
- 13.We will go to school by walk
- 14.We will have earthen pots for cool-water in summer
- 15.We will climb trees and in summer move around outdoors
- 16.When doctors would prescribe medicines and we will get better — no tests were prescribed
- 17.When doctors used to come to house and we used to have family-doctors
- 18.When we would exchange magazines and books
- 19.When most of the cooking was done on coal
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