They often fight to keep their family.
People in the middle age have usually enaugh money to live their life, but they still have to help their children, who start their self – activities. Also, they should try to save as much money as possible so that they don´t live in abjection later. But inspite of this I think this age is the best. You don´t have to worry about your accomodation, about the future of your family and you usually have a steady job. You can use your money to travel, to put your mind on your hobbies, simply – to make your drems come true. But all ends when you become old. You retire, and so you depend on the others, on your children, on the money you saved, on the state.. You don´t have any extras. The best case is, when your offspring concerns himself about you, but many grand mothers and grand fathers end in retirements homes. So this was a normal human life. But there are some extremes, too. Let´s mention meanness, for exemple. Money has such an influence on some people, that they really sacrifice all their lives to it. They become blind and the only thing they see is their main interest – how to become even richer. The thing that is interessting about it is, that they don´t spend it, their biggest joy is to lump it and to admire it. It becomes their only friend, family, simply said – everything. They would rather die then surrender of any. Another phenomenon are people whose self - confidence depends only on their propriety. They have huge villas, expensive limousines, they offer mervellous presents to their friends just to show how merciful they are. They never do any hardwork and they despise workers, because labour means only filth for them. This is caused by their lifestyle, because the only reason they achieved something was they paid for it. Simply said – if they were poor, they would be completely lost, all their power would have disappeared.
In my opinion, to be rich doesn´t mean to be happy. Many poor families are the happiest in the world, even though their life is thorny. This is because they have no anxiety about their gear and they consider values like mutual understanding, love, and family – immaterial things - more important then anything else. It´s maybye also because they can appreciate the real value of money, which is something very relative. For a homeless person, who has nowhere to live and who struggles for life every day £5 means a huge amount, whereas it´s completely ridiculous for a millionaire, who can fire his £20 cigar with it.
Another thing, that shows this relativity is the inflation. Savings people economized for decennaries can turn to nothing in few seconds.