Life loves to subject us to the useless positional (numbers) measuring sticks that mean nothing in the long term. It means a lot to me in the long term that I'

Life loves to subject us to the useless positional (numbers) measuring sticks that mean nothing in the long term. It means a lot to me in the long term that I'm living in a nice big house with a nice big garden for my kids to play in, which is also close to a world class city and world class companies. That's going to be very expensive. Therefore money isn't a useless positional measurement stick that means nothing in the long term to me. It's an incredibly important number that if I attain will mean fulfilling a dream and bringing me and my family much happiness. No internal measurement stick is going to make me happy about being forced to bring up my kids in a trailer park in rural Texas.