Thursday, 18 May 2006
All that glitters...
I am so disillusioned by all these 'get rich quick' schemes (or should I say scams) that are out there. I have tried a few so can speak from experience when I use the term scams for some of them. At the time I guess I thought money was the answer to all my problems. Now I am beginning to see how wrong I was. There is surely something lacking in a person's life that they believe filling it with 'things' will change everything. If I were to win the lottery tomorrow I'm not kidding myself for a minute I wouldn't be overjoyed. We could have a bigger house, go more holidays, maybe even give up work. But I don't think that I would be any more happy or content with my life. I don't believe 'things' would make me feel different. Now when I see an advert talking about a mega income from only a few hours work I just feel sad. Sad for the person who placed it and sad for the person who will reply to it, both of them believing that these schemes actually work.
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I spent the better part of my twentieth year homeless. I learned a lot, mostly about the relative unimportance of money. That period bred into me a taste for spartan, ascetic living, and a lack of possessions which follows me to this day. I was lucky to have such a lesson imparted to me.
I believe you were lucky to have learnt this message so early in life. Sadly a lot of people learn it too late, some not at all. However, I am glad that I am now finding how rich life is in other ways.
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