<p><b data-redactor-tag="b">In this article you will learn the following</b><br></p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">-15 real luxuries of today - you need to focus-on and acquire </b></p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">-10 Things we need to learn to value - to create luxuries that money can't buy</b></p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">-19 Luxuries in the pre-social-media and pre-mobile and pre-internet days</b></p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">- Progressive change in the definition of materialistic luxury</b></p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">Most of the real luxuries are not those you can buy.</b></p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">What you can indulge-in which is possible only because of wealth — in earlier stages of your life </b>— can certainly give you sensual pleasures, boost your EGO, can make you feel proud.</p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">But at much later stage when you have acquired real-wisdom — you would realize that all those which felt like real-luxuries were good</b> but not the real-luxuries.</p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">I have identified 15 luxuries which I feel is must for each one of us — irrespective of your </b>social-financial-professional-political status.</p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">15 real luxuries of today you need to focus-on and acquire</b></p> <ul><li>1.Your being emotionally healthy </li> <li>2.Your being fully comfortable with who you are</li> <li>3.Your being mentally agile </li> <li>4.Your being physically fit</li> <li>5.Your being meaningfully engaged professionally</li> <li>6.Your having great quality relationships with all your important people</li> <li>7.Your loved ones being happy and growing</li> <li>8.Your living a life based on your passion</li> <li>9.Your learning, unlearning and relearning </li> <li>10.Your making contribution - which makes your loved ones grow the best they can in the area they are interested in</li> <li>11.Your making a positive difference to people around you</li> <li>12.Your leaving a legacy of powerful positive benchmarks</li> <li>13.Your standing for meaningful values</li> <li>14.Your lifting-up of people who can't do themselves</li> <li>15.Your experiencing the nature - the Himalayas, the sea, the desert, the birds, the sunshine, the rains</li></ul> <p><b data-redactor-tag="b">10 Things we need to learn to value - to create luxuries that money can't buy</b></p> <ul><li>1.Your mental-emotional-physical-social-financial and relationship Health,</li> <li>2.What and How you Eat</li> <li>3.Your most trustable and bankable relationships & Your loved-ones</li> <li>4.Your wellbeing</li> <li>5.Quality and Type of people you have in your circle</li> <li>6.The habits that you have - including your habits of mind</li> <li>7.Your Money - where you spend, where you save and how you earn and invest</li> <li>8.Your time - are you using it most meaningfully </li> <li>9.Your commitment </li> <li>10.Your being respectable and honorable</li></ul> <p><b data-redactor-tag="b">Progressive change in the definition of materialistic luxury</b></p> <ul><li>1.I came from an era - where owning a bicycle was a luxury </li> <li>2.Then owning telephone, television, refrigerator, home-theatre, video-player, scooter, car, computer became luxuries </li> <li>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</li></ul> <p><b data-redactor-tag="b">19 Luxuries in the pre-social-media and pre-mobile and pre-internet days </b></p> <ul><li>1.Spending summer holidays - with your cousins at your aunt and uncle's place</li> <li>2.And relatives coming to stay for weeks</li> <li>3.Travelling by train for 2-3 days in coal-engine driven trains</li> <li>4.Neighborhood female jointly making papad, pickle, potato-chips</li> <li>5.Mothers knitting woolen sweaters, socks and caps</li> <li>6.Sundays having a late leisurely home-cooked food - maybe by fathers</li> <li>7.Marriages would happen in the neighborhood with everyone sharing their rooms, linen and food - no hotels or caterers </li> <li>8.People jointly sharing festivals</li> <li>9.We will wait for the postman & post letters in the post-box</li> <li>10.We will write long letters by hand</li> <li>11.We will send telegram from telegraph office</li> <li>12.We will make national/domestic calls from the airports/telegraph centers </li> <li>13.We will go to school by walk</li> <li>14.We will have earthen pots for cool-water in summer</li> <li>15.We will climb trees and in summer move around outdoors</li> <li>16.When doctors would prescribe medicines and we will get better - no tests were prescribed</li> <li>17.When doctors used to come to house and we used to have family-doctors</li> <li>18.When we would exchange magazines and books</li> <li>19.When most of the cooking was done on coal </li></ul><div><b data-redactor-tag="b">#realluxuriesoflife, #luxuriesyouneedtoacquire, #thingsyouneedtovalue, #luxuriesbeforesocialmediainyernetmobile, #whichluxuriesmattersmost, #changesinthedefinitionofluxury, #thingsofrealvalueinlife</b><span class="redactor-invisible-space"></span><br></div>