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-Removed-Money can sometimes aid you in travelling to places where you can be with people you can learn from, in many different ways; people who have richness within, people with whom you would normally have never met and the experiences of those encounters. Richness is not a measure of 'money capacities', which seems to be a measure of rule here.
There is a plateau we reach in life, I believe, where contentment comes from our thoughts and acceptances of who WE are, in the bigger picture.
Long not for things you had, but long for waking every day satisfied with who you are, and the thoughts that have gone into your achievements. The thoughts and ambitions, and how you got there to master them, are much more important than where you think you are at now.
If you crave big big money, and artifacts, then you will be chasing an endless corridor. However, earn some money and use it to get to where you aim to, by saving it and using it wisely. Work is a necessity and a tool to achieve. To work on ourselves is a mastery of achievement in itself.
There is a line...... almost like a heart beat.....in all we do and feel.
-m.
Edit: apols..... it's not a line.... it's a Sin wave.... up and down over time.
The post that was quoted here has been removedOkay. Maybe there should be a word that means completely poor more then pauperage where someone dies through lack of substance in their belongings.
Anyway yes, people invariably poor of culture and ambition. But then there are those so rich in love, family, health ect. Perhaps we should define 'poor'
The post that was quoted here has been removedNo one wants to surelly. The way the world is right now is a little crazy, or maybe it's always been this way and only now we know about it all. Humans are crazy.
There was a documentry about the Easter Island yesterday, the only island humans have lived remotly on (1000ad). It was a rich land when we arrived and we distroyed it and then eachother.
The post that was quoted here has been removedYou mean like the devide in the Uk is bigger?
Must have been big in Dickens' time.
Perhaps it's more pronounced now?
I comepetely aggree about drugs for health though. There was some report I read about pills to kill tate worms costing a fraction of money yet it still kills becasue people can't afford to buy it. That's poor. And now that the people dying of it, with global connections they know how cheap it is to produce and how redidculas it is that they don't have the pills.
The post that was quoted here has been removedIn the 50s.
Have you seen that film 'An Education' not really something I'd watch, my mum chose it. Anyway it's about a lady growing up in the 50s 60s and how it is for her. After the film we were chatting (my mum grew up in the same time frame) and we agreed that on the whole things are better for women in pitucular. We have more fredom.
Originally posted by yo its meHave you seen the film 'Educating Rita?'
In the 50s.
Have you seen that film 'An Education' not really something I'd watch, my mum chose it. Anyway it's about a lady growing up in the 50s 60s and how it is for her. After the film we were chatting (my mum grew up in the same time frame) and we agreed that on the whole things are better for women in pitucular. We have more fredom.
Wasn't better for her, after she changed and grew within to reach her goals of learning and achievement. She was rejected by all she knew. Her richness within was rejected. Irony or ,in her case, her aims of richness, became a state of rejection. She was no longer liked because she had achieved something masterful beyond her own dreams - something that she never knew she could venture into and be accepted.
Her freedom was taken away, the previous understanding of marriage and children, until she knew she had to walk away from all that she thought she had once known.
Quite often finding the real richness within, if you know what you are looking for, means a long long walk away from what you previously thought was the norm. 😉
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Originally posted by asromacalcioI've been poor (by relative western standard), and i've been comfortable but not well off. Given the choice, i'd rather have the money. Having been poor, i am extremely low maintainence, and can feather my nest without craving the trappings of money, or tightening my belt.
I do. I'm broke but I like it, as long as I can eat.
If being poor means having no disposable income, then i see no real difference. Real poverty is something i don't think any of us want to experience. I think though that some people need to miss a few meals or so, that'd shut them up and make them see what an advantaged position they actually have.
