What does money remove for us?

Watching a silly TV programme last night about a hospital that is kind of a 5 star hotel at the same time, really caused me to ask the question whether too much money tears away the most wonderful and real experiences from us.

For example in this posh hospital, women were giving birth to babies and having them taken care of most of the day by the wonderful nurses, so they could get some sleep. Over night the little ones would be in a different room with nurses feeding them and looking after them in their first 72 hours.

Whilst I am fully sure there is a LOT of merit to getting some needed rest after giving birth, it was quite sad that these mothers were missing out on some of the realness of the first few days.

So it caused me to think about what experiences does money rob us of?

Does having money to buy new clothes stop us from reimagining our old ones and recreating something new with what we have?

Does money take away from us the joy of cooking with few and simple ingredients?

Does having the money for some household help, cause us to miss the chance of connecting with our home and our possessions?

Do coffee machines and take away coffees cause us to miss out on the moment of pause whilst waiting for the kettle to boil

Maybe none of these things is true, maybe its marvellous to have nice new clothes, eat out in restaurants, have our house cleaned and pick up coffee on the way to work. Sounds good to me and surely it gives us the time to do more meaningful and important things with our lives. Doesn't it?

Thoughts anyone?

What are you missing out on?