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Wellness impacts the mind, body and soul, and while all its dimensions must be accomplished to consider one’s life fulfilled, a perfect balance is not necessary. Instead, a person should identify and build on the dimension that works best for him. Green et al. (2019) argue that life satisfaction is the true measure of wellness, and for me, financial wellness is not essential because I believe it emanates from bias. For instance, I have one cousin who is a doctor and another who is an Instagram models yet during family gatherings, only the Instagram models accomplishments are mentioned. I believe this is because my community generally holds people who are well paid in high regard, and the better one’s salary is, the high his rank in the community.
I believe that my community bases wellness on economic stands, and while I do not blame them, it affects other wellness domains like social and spiritual, which are more important. A doctor may have a limited salary but ignoring his value is a problem that will have adverse consequences. An Instagram model may be highly paid for the absurd posts he puts into gaining two minutes of fame and will be of no help to anyone but himself, yet a doctor will always be needed. Therefore, wellness is not correctly understood because people perceive it as what society believes, yet it is an individual concept that a person shapes for himself.
A better understanding of bias enables me to identify why wellness is misunderstood. We live in an increasingly material society in which people are readily blinded by money, even though it is of no consequence when important factors like family and community come into play. Therefore, people will readily follow a politician offering false promises in exchange for power yet shun an environmental activist whose efforts will benefit everyone in the long run.
Reference
Green, Z. A., Noor, U., & Ahmed, F. (2019, December 20). The Body–Mind–Spirit Dimensions of Wellness Mediate Dispositional Gratitude and Life Satisfaction. Journal of Happiness
