Some people live their lives with money, while for some people money lives their lives. People need money, currency, as a form of trading object, which gradually become a form of status. Most of the people (I hope) live their lives with money; some understand how to manage and use their earning while some fails to manage the income and outgoing so that those people kept wasting money. However, there is a group of people, who have the lives run by the money. They would trade anything they have to gain money. First, they thought nobody will know what they have traded to acquire money, but pretty soon, they do not care who else knows whatever they have done. I have learned from a Comedian Chris Rock during his stand up comedy show that being wealthy and being rich are two different things. One is said to be wealthy when one knows how to manage well of his/her possession and knows how to leave his/her legacy of status and values to younger generations. Rich meant just having a lot of money. It doesn't necessarily mean that they can leave their possession over to his/her generation to follow. Most of the people whose lives have been lived by the money are just rich people if it has to go with the standard of Chris Rock. Most rich people doesn't have a good life ending. Money has just lived out of their lives while they are under illusion of being rich. I have sensed strongly that a lot of those money driven people are unconsciously ashamed of themselves and feeling small about themselves so that they kept following money and believing that growth of money can replace their feeling of having a lesser life. Thursday, May 29, 2008
Money and Living
Some people live their lives with money, while for some people money lives their lives. People need money, currency, as a form of trading object, which gradually become a form of status. Most of the people (I hope) live their lives with money; some understand how to manage and use their earning while some fails to manage the income and outgoing so that those people kept wasting money. However, there is a group of people, who have the lives run by the money. They would trade anything they have to gain money. First, they thought nobody will know what they have traded to acquire money, but pretty soon, they do not care who else knows whatever they have done. I have learned from a Comedian Chris Rock during his stand up comedy show that being wealthy and being rich are two different things. One is said to be wealthy when one knows how to manage well of his/her possession and knows how to leave his/her legacy of status and values to younger generations. Rich meant just having a lot of money. It doesn't necessarily mean that they can leave their possession over to his/her generation to follow. Most of the people whose lives have been lived by the money are just rich people if it has to go with the standard of Chris Rock. Most rich people doesn't have a good life ending. Money has just lived out of their lives while they are under illusion of being rich. I have sensed strongly that a lot of those money driven people are unconsciously ashamed of themselves and feeling small about themselves so that they kept following money and believing that growth of money can replace their feeling of having a lesser life. 
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