Actions, such as earning or losing money, are closely related to emotions, and in most cases, this resource is not obtained or lost for objective reasons.
In that sense, it could be said that money is a symbolic object; as such, it originates from our minds of different ways of meaning and managing it, considering that it is an almost universal form of exchange.
- What makes us earn or lose money are the decisions we make.
- Beyond the lack of resources or their excesses.
- What defines everything is how we manage it.
- Money has acquired the status of a fetish; we live in a world where everything is gradually becoming a matter of commerce.
Many people have been marked by a combination of lack of money and emotional needs, perhaps their parents had to leave them alone to go to work, in order to have money to survive, they also likely at some point felt humiliated by the lack of resources In these cases, in particular, money becomes a complex problem that can cause several problems.
“Is the dog with money called a dog?” Arabic Proverb?
One of the factors that leads us to lose money is the rejection or contempt for the life we lead; by mistake, it is the conviction that it is the lack of economic resources that leads to vital dissatisfaction.
There is also a fantasy that personal value would increase if we had more money, leading to a strong tendency to associate money with satisfaction. The person becomes unable to imagine good situations that do not involve spending money. Because their resources are limited, dissatisfaction becomes a way of life.
They usually solve the problem trying to simulate a life without needs, they feel a powerful attraction to all those objects that are a symbol of status, they even lose money spending on useless objects or businesses, your goal is to try, what does it feel like you would like to have a lot of money?and feel, even for a moment, like someone else realized.
This is a situation similar to the previous one. The difference is that, in this case, frustration leads to impulsive or compulsive behaviors, in this category are those who literally do not bear to see a product on offer and not buy it, accumulators of unnecessary objects that are governed by the feeling that they have to buy.
Unconsciously, they try to meet other, deeper needs. However, as they have not realized, the truth is a bottomless abyss. Your appetite to buy new products or more money is insatiable.
Supermarkets love this type of consumer and try to help you lose money with little tricks, bombard their customers with ads for non-existent promotions (they artificially increase the price, then return it to their normal value as an attractive offer), and offer them facilities to buy everything.
In the end, these buyers manage to pay the bills, but they still feel empty and start the bad cycle again.
There are many unconscious factors involved in money management; today, money is increasingly linked to the concept of happiness through consumption; there is also a fantasy that money has the power to repair shared self-esteem, which allows us to make sense of a reality that seems daunting.
Therefore, losing money is usually the result of giving it a leading role. It’s paradoxical, but the irresistible desire to have money leads us to lose money.
The difference between the actual value of this resource and the meaning we give it leads to erroneous or reckless actions, in these cases money, especially through consumption, is used as a means to solve difficulties of another order.
However, it is economic issues that lead the least to emotion, and when it comes to confusing and neurotic emotions, the danger is even greater.
The problem is that those who are victims of these logics do not understand them, so losing money ends up becoming normal, finally reaffirming discontent and bringing back needs to feel in all their brutality.
It may be that earning and losing money is just a smokescreen. Money may not be the problem, but the fact that unfulfilled desire increases because it cannot fill the void. Precisely the emptiness that holds desire dissatisfied. Thus, money would end up helping to cover difficulties and sufferings that we do not know how to face.