There are valuable things that money could not buy.

There are valuable things that money could not buy.
Sofia was a lonely woman. She had long since lost contact with her family and the few friends she had were the employees of her company.

She was an avid publicist known as "the shark woman." With the ability to develop a campaign and drive a business just by analyzing it for a few minutes.

She was incredibly good at the job, and she had gotten there the hard way. However, the better she got at the job, the more her humanity waned.

Bank accounts with hundreds of thousands of zeros give the feeling that anything is possible with money, but within her loneliness, Sofia could not buy herself a family, nor real friends.

Not even the last bill mattered, when Sofia arrived home and the silence was thunderous. Many times she had been warned that, if she did not change her way of thinking, she would be alone. However, she supposed she wasn't so afraid of loneliness... Until she experienced it.

One night, the woman had fallen ill. Shivering from the high temperature in bed, she had no one to call. She knew that no one would answer her call in the early morning, so she had to manage to cope with the rest of the night.

It was in the morning, when his body had regulated that he tried to make a call. The building's concierge answered immediately.

-Good morning, miss.

-I need a favor... If you could buy me some medicine to reduce my fever.

She heard the dreaded silence on the line, and then the end of the call.

All the times she had looked down her nose at that man, the bad words and bad treatment, they all went through her head. She thought she deserved that treatment and prepared to face yet another night of sick loneliness.

To her surprise, the apartment doorbell bounced along with an echo off every wall. Very dizzy, she managed to stand up and answer the door, finding Esteban, her concierge, with a bag of medicine and a container of hot and very smelly soup.

At that moment, the "shark woman" burst into tears, grateful to the man who fed her and watched over her illness until she recovered.

-I will pay you back. -She promised, to which he refused.

-I'm not doing this for money. -He clarified.

He who heeds correction is on the way to life; he who rejects it is lost. -Proverbs 10:17

Life itself is the greatest mystery we will ever know. Many times, we live without getting an answer, many times, we live without asking any questions. However, life is only a perception of our reality, where our troubles and joys are the center of it all.

And that is where the problem begins. Little by little we become oblivious to the experiences of others, forgetting to listen, appreciate and care for those around us.

At that moment, Sofia understood that no matter how much money you have, nothing helps against loneliness. The most important thing in life is to keep close to the people who appreciate us. That is the true meaning of life.