Health Wealth & Life

Life is first. This has been proved once again. The world is in a state of locked down to protect lives of people due to COVID 19. The virus which was first detected in China has affected over sixteen lac people. It has taken away over Fourteen Lac Twenty- Five Thousand and taken eighty-one thousand plus lives. The world is united to save lives. Value of life has emerged above everything.

It is re-affirmed that health is more precious than wealth. In 1860, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, ` the first wealth is health'. People have valued the line and have tried to explain the essence of the line but it was often tested. The present crisis is that health is the foundation on which life rests. Unless health is protected, life is also protected. When health is lost life gradually inches towards the end.

After life the most important thing is health. Unless one has sound health life becomes meaningless. However, when human beings learn to earn money and create wealth they hold wealth in the highest esteem. People start worshiping all rich people who are in possession of health. But with time human beings reaslise that it wealth ranks last among life, health and wealth. Mahatma Gandhi said, `it is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.' .

World Health Organization ( `WHO') defines health as a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. US is running around to protect lives of its countrymen and is ready to pay any price for it. It is the land of wealth and wealthy people who control economies of countries around the world. But with CONVID 19 all calculations have gone wrong. To-day Dow Jones, Nasdaq and S& P 500 have taken the back seat. They are important but not price less like life.

The words, health, wealth and life have their own meaning and significance. Unless there is life there cannot be health and wealth. Life, therefore, is the centre point around which health and wealth revolve. After life comes health . Last comes wealth. The world jumps to the tune of wealth. . Even after abolition of slavery in 1865 in the US there are new breeds of slaves around the world in the name of globalisation. Through the exploitation of wealth, US purchases cheap labour around the world in markets and dominate the price of the products sold in the market by thwarting competition.

To understand wealth one needs to understand the subject Economics. Nobel Prize is declared each year on the subject since 1969. The subject was not included in the original list of subjects. It was included later. To understand economics one needs to look into the definations given by several persons. Adam Smith a noted Economist defined the subject Economics as follows : “Economics is concerned with an enquiry into the nature and causes of wealth of nations, and it is related to the laws of production, exchange, distribution and consumption of wealth.” The central point of his definition is 'wealth.

Societies are dependent on economies which is based on the subject Economics. From the defination of Adam Smith it is seen that the subject based on , `wealth'. Countries have grown tall based on sound economy. The British Empire which controlled the Commonwealth of Nations around the world consisting of fifty four countries controlled the countries. Wealth was the back bone of its control. However, the control was short-lived,

History reminds us that neither life nor wealth is permanent. Therefore, life and wealth are momentary. They have to come to an end. None can boast of them. When any one will take a turn none can predict. Take the instance of UK once a super power. To-day the wealth of UK has diminished. This weakened the country. People are now fighting against the spread of Corona virus. More than five thousand lives have been lost in a span of thirty days. Corona has not spared the country's prime minister who is in hospital. US the foremost among super powers holding number one position in terms of economy has the largest number of victims of COVID 19 and has also the highest number of deaths as a result of Corona ( 12 thousand plus).

Corona has floored all economies who boasted of their wealth. It has not spared anyone. There are attacks and deaths. Unless rules are followed one has to face death. No life. Therefore, life is the most precious thing on earth . Life needs to be supported by proper health . If one maintans proper health he is said to lead a proper life. Life ends as health fails. Healthy life adds to the economy by the goods ands services produced and measured in terms of GDP. To have the feel of life there needs to be a sound economy. It is a sound economy that generates wealth. Life comes berfore wealth and it is never the other way round.

So one must remember , `Health is Wealth.'