Almost all of us agree that wealth is important, but it is not one of the keys to happiness and peace because peace and happiness are our own way of creating it.
Yep. Everyone should agree that wealth is needed. However, having the wealth sometimes doesn't guarantee the happiness. It is because happiness is something a bit complicated, it is not always related to the wealth. Even if someone has limited funds, he can happy if he lives around his lovely people. Meanwhile rich people may be not happy because they have no time to gather with their lovely people. This is one of the examples of happiness that doesn't rely on the wealth.
I once saw a movie from Japan called
Okuotoko where it tells about a situation where money sometimes ends up being a source of problems for the main character and his family whose life becomes like a roller coaster when the main character who has no money and becomes a millionaire but loses his wife because he is too obsessed with money.
This movie also tells us that in the end, money and wealth are indeed important things to have but that doesn't mean we have to be someone who only focuses on money and doesn't care about other things including family and spouse.
I learned quite a lot from this because in the end, even though money is important for the life we live, we must realize that we must be able to control the activities we do so that money does not become a source of problems for us. Because in the end, when we only live and focus on money, we will forget the conditions around us, including love for our family because our focus is only on wealth. Indeed, as much as possible we should try to get our own version of money and wealth but that does not mean we have to sacrifice feelings which in the end this becomes a new problem that makes us unhappy despite having money.