15 real luxuries you need to acquire and focus on

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