lets cross the divide and share what its really like to be rich
materially rich I cannot truly say but spiritually rich we sure are.
In terms of being spiritually rich it means you can be generous to those who are less well off than you. And its a great feeling knowing you have the resources to make someones elses life better.
If one is born rich there is no need to prove oneself. And if that is all you know you may feel uncomfortable around poor people at close quarters.
There are downsides to being rich too, if you are trusting in your material riches, because at any moment they can taken from you, so tragedy seems to hit you harder as up to that point you have never had to suffer or want for anything.
sometimes being rich can warp your view of the world as rich people often move in exclusive circles so that they neever experience or even see poorer people. Servants and people who do things for you can become like wallpaper, and often rich people are only concerned with their own affairs and not even be aware that people give up their time and energy and everything to serve the needs of the rich.
One cup of coffee each day is a necessity for rich people but for a poor person it means tending a coffee crop and making enough harvest to pay off a debt and not having enough to eat but only being allowed to grow one thing....coffee for people in richer countries to buy.
Rich people get used to the finer things in life and can become extremely proud of what they own, but most of it is never fashioned by their own hands.
rich people can be divided into new money and old money, old money has a respect and aura that new money often doesnt have, but it can be both ways with the old guard being set in their ways and the nouveau rich doing radical things with their wealth.
I had philanthropists try and film some children at school asking what you should give money to, they got them to say some lines for camera and suggest rich people go and join this philanthropy that tells you what to give your money too...but I thought it was wrong to put children up to this because these children would say I would just give the money to my parents...cos their parents were not even rich. It was not as if their parents had any spare money to give to anyone. But you cant ever tell a rich person that cos they somehow dont understand that not everyone lives in the same world as they do.
some rich people are often averse to any suggestion of sharing wealth since they are very used to keeping it all to themselves, and the very idea of communism is like anathema to them. If a rich person does warm to the idea, they are at best labelled a hippie and end up squandering their wealth on designer drugs or weed anyway. The drugs a rich person is addicted to are just a higher class than the ones poor people are addicted to, but they are drugs all the same. A rich person is more likely to be a dealer and somehow its more acceptable to deal drugs if you are rich, as someones always there to bail you out and the best lawyers can bribed. that is if a life of indulgence tempts you.
the book of proverbs has a lot to say on what its like to be rich as it was written by the richest man on earth King Solomon. Unfortunately even with great wealth King Solomon lost all that was valuable when he failed to heed his own wisdom...and as the Book of Ecclesiastes would say over and over...all is vanity.
rich people contribute to the economy by spending their money not actually working as poor people need to. If you are rich, you hardly need to work at all, but then comes a life of indolence and leisure which can be very bad for your soul. Its not called unemployment for a rich person, its just early retirement,
a rich persons secondhand store is called an antique store, not an op shop.
but the ripped jeans are just fashionably ripped, and not actually all the clothes that you own that you cant afford new ones and looks so bad it looks like the dog bit them.
materially rich I cannot truly say but spiritually rich we sure are.
In terms of being spiritually rich it means you can be generous to those who are less well off than you. And its a great feeling knowing you have the resources to make someones elses life better.
If one is born rich there is no need to prove oneself. And if that is all you know you may feel uncomfortable around poor people at close quarters.
There are downsides to being rich too, if you are trusting in your material riches, because at any moment they can taken from you, so tragedy seems to hit you harder as up to that point you have never had to suffer or want for anything.
sometimes being rich can warp your view of the world as rich people often move in exclusive circles so that they neever experience or even see poorer people. Servants and people who do things for you can become like wallpaper, and often rich people are only concerned with their own affairs and not even be aware that people give up their time and energy and everything to serve the needs of the rich.
One cup of coffee each day is a necessity for rich people but for a poor person it means tending a coffee crop and making enough harvest to pay off a debt and not having enough to eat but only being allowed to grow one thing....coffee for people in richer countries to buy.
Rich people get used to the finer things in life and can become extremely proud of what they own, but most of it is never fashioned by their own hands.
rich people can be divided into new money and old money, old money has a respect and aura that new money often doesnt have, but it can be both ways with the old guard being set in their ways and the nouveau rich doing radical things with their wealth.
I had philanthropists try and film some children at school asking what you should give money to, they got them to say some lines for camera and suggest rich people go and join this philanthropy that tells you what to give your money too...but I thought it was wrong to put children up to this because these children would say I would just give the money to my parents...cos their parents were not even rich. It was not as if their parents had any spare money to give to anyone. But you cant ever tell a rich person that cos they somehow dont understand that not everyone lives in the same world as they do.
some rich people are often averse to any suggestion of sharing wealth since they are very used to keeping it all to themselves, and the very idea of communism is like anathema to them. If a rich person does warm to the idea, they are at best labelled a hippie and end up squandering their wealth on designer drugs or weed anyway. The drugs a rich person is addicted to are just a higher class than the ones poor people are addicted to, but they are drugs all the same. A rich person is more likely to be a dealer and somehow its more acceptable to deal drugs if you are rich, as someones always there to bail you out and the best lawyers can bribed. that is if a life of indulgence tempts you.
the book of proverbs has a lot to say on what its like to be rich as it was written by the richest man on earth King Solomon. Unfortunately even with great wealth King Solomon lost all that was valuable when he failed to heed his own wisdom...and as the Book of Ecclesiastes would say over and over...all is vanity.
rich people contribute to the economy by spending their money not actually working as poor people need to. If you are rich, you hardly need to work at all, but then comes a life of indolence and leisure which can be very bad for your soul. Its not called unemployment for a rich person, its just early retirement,
a rich persons secondhand store is called an antique store, not an op shop.
but the ripped jeans are just fashionably ripped, and not actually all the clothes that you own that you cant afford new ones and looks so bad it looks like the dog bit them.
