Money as Stored Life Energy

We are wired to hoard. We are taught to fear scarcity. We equate money

with safety, morality, and worth. But let’s step back and ask a deeper

question. What is money, really? We treat money like it’s the goal.

We open our banking apps, watch the number rise, and feel a hit of

dopamine. We obsess over net worth charts, savings rates, and investment returns.

But money is not the goal. Money is a tool. Money is stored life energy.

Every dollar you earn represents a portion of your finite existence. You trade hours—sometimes

thousands of them—for that stored energy. If you trade 2,000 hours of your life to earn $100,000,