What's More Important - Health, Wealth Or Time?

There are three areas by which we humans are guided. They are health, wealth and time and we're usually not focused on all of them at once. We pick one and base our life around it whether consciously or subconsciously, but which is the most important?

The debate is on about which holds the crown of importance, because we have the privilege of determining that for ourselves. Once the choice is made, you are delivered to your respective box in which you'll shape your life. There you'll find service, opportunity and consequence aptly matching your decision.

Let's look at the first area of "health". When asked, most people will choose this as the most important. When one chooses health, a series of rituals are instituted designed specifically for the benefit of the physical body. Luckily, the benefits of maintaining optimum body balance are also enjoyed by the emotional and intellectual parts as well. They are better served with a well running machine of support behind the scenes.

Systems are running smoothly. The energy flow, both in and out are fine tuned and set for travel. Our connection to the Universe is complete and the process of manifesting may now begin.

Not a bad choice, for without health, you cannot gain wealth, because you're too sick to do what's necessary for its achievement. Besides, a lack of health means the time you spend here is not considered "Grade A". Humanity has established that a happy, prosperous life and poor health are not in harmony and cannot coexist. Who wants a life of illness, struggle and limitation? Of course, by choice, no one.

Those in good health are ideal in helping those who are not. Caring for the sick and less fortunate is easy for one with a strong physical ability. Service and teaching opportunities can bring rewards on yet another scale and it is believed that endurance is more apt to be won during good health.

Games of competition are on the radar, which can bring pleasure to those who watch as well as fame and fortune to those who participate. With good health, one can run marathons through the business world with a cap that reads entrepreneur, inventor or employee.

The adventures of exploring this planet await you in the mountains, in the ocean, up in the sky and on land. Even space is waiting just for you.

When we're physically strong and in good health, we have an open book before us in which we can write new history notes for others to read and share. Granted, it's a good candidate for the crown, but is it really the most important of the three?

Let's talk now about "wealth". This word offers different options to its chooser. For instance, a wealth of knowledge is sought by lifelong learners. Financial wealth is chased around the globe, sometimes to the extreme. Relational wealth is chosen by those who love people. A wealth of power is wielded by good and bad alike, and hunted by many well-armed foot soldiers. Spiritual wealth is gained through study and prayer.

It's another good choice, for without wealth, it may be difficult to find good health care. Our living conditions may be poor, thus making it easy for health to diminish. The consistent lack of fresh and nutritious food will surely suffer the physical body, and as well, the emotional and intellectual parts in turn, will reduce our time.

Daily life will be a struggle, searching for ways to produce income in which to pay for shelter and food. This struggle will wane on our emotions and we'll have little, if any contentment. There are many who yearn for financial wealth, yet few achieve it.

Relational wealth surrounds those who love people. They are the life of the party, the event is always at their house or they're in charge of making the arrangements. They are good friends, always willing to lend a helping hand or a listening ear and can empathize and make you feel special. Their funeral is the best reflection of their relational wealth as people fill to capacity and overflow outside and surround the building, with even more who mourn from afar. They are missed dearly, talked and written about. Some even make it to legend status.

A wealth of power is usually sought by those who wish to feed the ego. Nonetheless, power is available to everyone. It's the amount of power that can alter character and take the grateful to greedy. It is humanity's hope that the powerful exercise wisdom and compassion, though we do not consider this to be the norm.

A wealth of knowledge is available to all, yet only those who are inclined, driven or tickled toward this path will oblige. They are called lifelong learners. They carry their desire and curiosity for knowledge with them during their entire life span and are usually reading more than one book at a time. Their library is a marvel and the thrill of reading a good book is right up there with free money.

Humans have written and recorded their history, thoughts, teachings and fantasies for our pleasure. Libraries are available to most in some countries and to all here in America. We have only to walk in and select a book to be taken to a far off land or story in which we'll learn new facts or life lessons. The mind is truly a terrible thing to waste and those that don't waste it feel enriched. We will never learn all of the knowledge there is in the world, because we learn new things every day. This cup definitely overflows.

Wealth is another great candidate for the crown, but is it really the most important?

Now let's talk about "time". Time is unique in that we all receive it equally. Some are here longer than others, true, but I'm referring to the breakdown of time we have while we're here. The distribution of hours in any given day is equally available to all and its assignment is freely granted to every walk of life, whether human or animal.

The cauldron of time is poured out consistently. At best, we make a guess at how much time was in the cauldron to start, and further, we know not how much remains, yet its effect is dynamic.

We invest time because it is a non-renewable commodity, one in which the youth generally pay no mind, but one in which the elders cherish. We assign blocks of time to ventures of interest throughout our lives and try to steal time by visiting the plastic surgeon.

Time is wasted on one activity when it should have been designated to another for more valued gain. Time can be remembered and forgotten. Time is pushed back, moved up, passed by and can even seem to stand still. We go through time, around the time, in, under and over time. For different people, it can go by as fast as a speeding bullet and drag at the same time.

Time can be navigated by perception. Do we have time to go to the game and clean the house before your mother comes to dinner? With my work and the kids, I just don't have time to write that book. I have plenty of time for college, but first I want to backpack through Europe for a while.

What if we had no time? I think we can safely say that if there is no time, there is no us, according to our present understanding. Time is inherent to our existence. Life and time are bonded from our perspective and we cannot have one without the other.

Can we have life without health? Yes. Sad and shortened perhaps, but yes, we can have life without health.

Can we have life without wealth? Yes. Many of us already do.

But, we can't have life without time. Therefore, time is the most important. When we have time we have life. Along with life comes choice. With time, life and choice we have the foundation of opportunity that makes up our visit to this place. It's like being put in a giant toy box and allowed to play for a while.

Some of us play with health, some with wealth and others with time. The choice is ours. The decisions we make each moment are based on one of these areas and it's what we choose to do with our time that will determine our health as well as our wealth. Time provides the color, but these choices become the brushes that paint the landscape of our life.

Regardless of our canvas, it all comes back to time. Time enables us to seek health to the desired degree and the acquisition of wealth in varying type and measure.

May each of our choices transform into skilled and stylish brush strokes, fed with the color dispensed by time. I think time gets the crown.