I am sure there will be many people who read this article and will think I am rather mad. I personally do not really care. Within this article I will be writing about what I believe are the important things in life or at least what things are most essential to my happiness.

All that most of my friends talk about is money:

What car do you drive?

How much is your house worth?

How much do you earn?

How much did your suit cost?

Where are you going on holiday this year?

I find all of this very boring and think that they are rather sad. They seem to be in some sort of competition and they are basically obsessed about money; about how clever they are by obtaining cheap phone calls.

I will give you an example of one such friend, his name is John; he is someone who provides people with cheap holidays. He never seems to talk about anything else other than money and is always looking into get rich quick schemes. He is a proud and dedicated member of a lottery syndicate, something which he is very serious about. Each member pays around ten pounds in per week. John likes to go out socialising on a Saturday night, however soon gets itchy feet at the time of the lottery draw. A couple of moments later he shuffles over to the washrooms where he then proceeds to telephone his fiancee. In his pocket he has a small pen and his national lottery numbers written down on a piece of paper. After his girlfriend, who has a successful DVD replication business by the way, has told him which numbers were drawn, John will then then spend around twenty minutes checking his numbers, and then re-checking to see if he has any winning lines.

Eventually he returns to the group who seem very keen (apart from me) to find out how much he has won/lost. To date he has only won small amounts, however is convinced that one day he will become a millionaire. He will then start talking about the lottery, asking other people what they would buy if they were lucky enough to ever win. At this point I become very bored and start to wish I had stayed at home and watched the football.

For me the two most important things in life are health and happiness. These are two things which money can not buy.