Money can't buy you love, but it can pretty much solve every problem you could ever encounter.  Sometimes I think being rich would make life a bit easier.  If, for example, there was an extra "0" at the end of my salary, I would no longer have any bills.  My house, car, insurance, electric, cell phone, internet, would all be paid for.  With quite a bit to spare.  Heck, I'd really only have to work about a year or two before I'd make more than enough for retirement.  But the more I think about it, the more I realize I couldn't deal with being rich.  If the above scenario was true, one of two things would happen:  Either I would (a) adjust my life to match my enormous income or (b) continue living as normal, with a massive savings account and permanent financial stability.  Since (b) couldn't possibly happen, I'll go with (a).  I would probably try to keep things under control at first, but I think I'd end up realizing how many things are broken and how easily they can be fixed with money.  "I don't like having to go outside to warm up my car in the morning, so I'm gonna buy an automatic starter.  But oh wait, I have a ton of money.  Why don't I just move to Hawaii?"  This is the kind of logic that I would imagine is impossible to dismiss when an almost endless supply of money is at hand.  If I somehow developed the self-control and perseverance to adhere to (b), I don't think it would work as nicely as I'd like.  Let's say I continued living life as normal, paying bills with interest, shopping at cheap stores because ... well, I'm cheap.  But all the while, there's a huge sum of money continually growing, funding savings accounts, investments, retirement, college education, etc.  I think at some point, something would come up.  Maybe my liver would fail and I'd need to buy a new one.  Or maybe my mortgage company would decide they wanted all my money now instead of in 30 years.  My current way of life couldn't even come close to paying for these things.  But if I had all kinds of money saved up, it would be stupid to not use it to pay for these kinds of things.  Maybe I'm a pessimist (maybe?), but I just think something would happen that would prevent me from ever being rich.  Oh well.  I can deal with that. #money