Money is not everything

People work hard to make money. But at last they forget the main purpose for which they make money. People work in office, in home and even on the way from office to home. At first people start making money to enjoy their life but later we forget to enjoy our life and get busy in making money.

There are many things we missed in our life because we are so busy in making money. How many of us spend at least 10 hours a week with our family. For some people spending 10 hours is impossible and some of them consider it to be waste of time.

People work 24 hours and a day 7 days a week to earn thousands of dollars. We Americans neither save the money nor we spent it properly. That’s another main reason for the current position of our country. Money isn’t everything in life. It can’t give you everything.

Some of us worry a lot for money. It’s just a piece of paper created by our ancestors to ease our work. But now it’s ruling the world. Life will be good until we control the money. But life will be worse if money controls the people. Sometimes I feel that we don’t own money but the money owns us.

The worst part of it is that it makes many people feel that life is nothing without it. I don’t understand why people commit suicide because they don’t have money. Many people committed suicide for bankruptcy.

Remember that human lived for thousands of without money and humans are using money only from few centuries. There are billions of other creatures (other than human beings) in the world living now without money and we are humans, we are intelligent creatures. We can live without it too.

I don’t say that money is nothing; I just say that money is not everything. It’s just a part of our normal life. It’s an important thing in our life. But we can live without it.I too spend a lot of time and work hard to make money but I spend more time with my family and in enjoying my time.

Couple Married for 72 years dies holding hands

A couple  who was married for 72 long years died last week holding each others hands. Gordon, 94 and Norma Yeager, 90 lived a perfect life together. The best love story I ever heard. I read and saw many stories and movies about true love but those were fictional but this is for real. We should learn something from them.

They did everything together. "They just loved being together. Everybody argues once in awhile, but they still, he said 'I have to stick around. I can't go until she does because I have to stay here for her and she would say the same thing,'" said Dennis Yeager, younger son of the couple.


Dennis Yeager said the couple left home last Wednesday to go into town, but they didn't make it.

At the intersection of Highway 30 and Jessup Avenue just west of Marshalltown, state troopers said Gordon pulled in front of an oncoming car. The Iowa State Patrol crash report said the other driver attempted to avoid the crash but was unable to stop in time.

"I rushed from Des Moines where I was working and saw them in the hospital," said Dennis Yeager.

Yeager Family

 In the intensive care unit of Marshalltown's hospital, nurses knew not to separate Gordon and Norma.

"They brought them in the same room in intensive care and put them together -- and they were holding hands in ICU. They were not really responsive," said Dennis Yeager.

Gordon died at 3:38 p.m. holding hands with his wife as the family they built surrounded them.

"It was really strange, they were holding hands, and dad stopped breathing but I couldn't figure out what was going on because the heart monitor was still going," said Dennis Yeager. "But we were like, he isn't breathing. How does he still have a heart beat? The nurse checked and said that's because they were holding hands and it's going through them. Her heart was beating through him and picking it up."

"They were still getting her heartbeat through him," said Donna Sheets.

Yeager Family

At 4:38 p.m., exactly one hour after Gordon died, Norma passed too.
Yeager Family

"Neither one of them would've wanted to be without each other. I couldn't figure out how it was going to work," said Donna Sheets. "We were very blessed, honestly, that they went this way."

"They just loved being together," said Dennis Yeager.

At their funeral on Monday, Norma and Gordon held hands in their casket. Family said they will be cremated and their ashes mixed together.

Its unbelievable for many of us but its true. 72 years is a long period. This is a perfect example for anyone who wants to live a happy and perfect life. Its not a sad ending. Its the best end one can ever have.

New businesses can save America

Our country is facing many problems now like recession and unemployment. Starting new businesses can solve these problems. Any kind of legal business from small to large. But the important point to note is that you should hire our people. Don’t hire foreigners. I am not an anti-immigrant. But I want American companies to give preference to Americans. Many companies hire foreigners as they are ready to work with less salary. It can cost you less but its not good for our country.

We got thousands of unemployed people and that’s not good for our country. America is losing its status in the world. Its no more a super power nation as we think. The world don’t respect in the same way as they used to respect us decades ago.

 Its an advice for people who are looking for new jobs to start a new business instead of looking for job. I don’t know whether you get a job of your talent or not but you can create new job opportunities to other people. Use your creativity and come up with some new idea for a new business. Not everyone is a Bill Gates, Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg. But everyone has the same brain. The only difference is that they used it and we didn’t.

Think hard, who knows you may be talented enough to change the entire world. Don’t waste your important time. Think creatively, no matter which field you are in. We are the descendants of the same people who made America as the superpower of the world. We have the same power and talent. Prove yourself to be better than new immigrants.

It doesn’t mean to fight with or hurt the new immigrants. I mean prove the world (and especially to the new immigrants) that we are talented then them. There are plenty of things to achieve. A little thinking can change your life.