People are losing jobs. Pricing is undercut. Houses are not selling and in foreclosure. Companies are going bankrupt. I get that times are tough. Heck, I lost my own job. But I absolutely refuse to buy into the media sky is falling message.
In tough times people dig deep to help others. As a couple who have been fortunate enough over the last twenty years to help others, it has been a humbling experience for Rosemary and myself to accept help ourselves. It inspires us to get out of our present hole and back to being in a position to help.
In tough times people help others with advice and stories of comfort and hope. With an over abundant love and enthusiasm for methods of self-help, I am especially sensitive to this type of counsel. There are words of supposed wisdom however, that I cannot stomach. Actually it's not the words. It's the people who are puking them from their gold-lined mouths.
It goes like this: Millionaire dude in the midst of his opulence says, "It's not about the money."
This makes as much sense as a poor fellow extolling the virtues of a Lamborghini sports car.
I realize there are many well intentioned, financially well off people who for them it isn't about the money. Whatever it is, I think we'd be better off seeing them out there demonstrating, teaching, helping, doing, whatever...just don't tell us it isn't about the money.
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