Life Changing Amount of Money

Does Money change your life?
Yes.
Does Money change you?
Not always...

Recently I've been asking people around me. What could be a life changing amount of money for them?

SGD 1 million dollars was the unanimous answer.

When I went for an audition for the game show "Deal or No Deal", they also asked me this question. I too said one million.

I had gone to try out the game show just for a chance to get enough money to pay off my school fees loan and just perhaps have some for home improvements. SGD250,000 was the grand prize offered. Well just for reference sake, you can't buy a nice apartment to stay for that amount of money, but you can definitely change a hell lot about life, for things that need money.

WHen they asked me what I would do with the 1 million dollars, I mentioned to give my parents a new home to stay, and then a place for myself, and then I paused.... becos having done that, the money would now be insufficient for anything more.

Money. Life seldom ends with enough money, it also is never about the money. How much is enough? Depends on what you want to do with it.

I figured, SGD 100,000 would be more than sufficient amount to change my. No I will not retire immediately into old age at 26 years old, but I would have gotten off the debt of twenty thousand dollars, make some home improvements, consider to do some investments, and continue to work and prepare, to allow for the next phase of life to unfold. With that I will be free from a host of necessities that incessantly required the attention of my finances.

Weibin asked me how I would change. I don't think I will change. If there were things I wanted to change about myself, they were things money can't change. And if anything was to change, it would be the quality of life and the liberation from nagging things like a washing machine that doesn't work properly, a fridge that's too small, and the tropic heat that endlessly calls for a new AC system to be in house. Most importantly, I'll still be searching for that cheap ticket out of town this summer, hang out with the same friends I love, go to the same places I like.

Lastly, it will be a waste of money, if there are no uses for it.