There are several things that get me thinking in regards to
this article as linked above.
First, and perhaps foremost, what is 'rich'? Clearly, this
article means rich as in monetary value, and whilst I, like most, would no
doubt enjoy being free of any constraint or difficulty regarding the lack of
mineral gold in one's back account, I find it a small focus to accept that
solely as a valuation of where we stand in life. In family and friends (who are
of course adopted family) I believe I am blessed to be rich beyond hope or
imagination; and I'd happily challenge Ms.Gina Rinehart to see who is winning
on that score.
Indeed, my present circumstances see me at the most
financially low in years, yet the balance is tipped by feeling the happiest I have
done in over a decade also, so again, being rich is a matter of opinion and
feeling as much as, or even more so, than about what buck is in the pocket or the
bank.
Again, would I relish in never having to worry about money,
in travelling where I wish whenever I wish, in buying whatever I wanted and
seeing that all those I loved were, to the best of my ability, in a similar stance?
Yes. I'd be a liar to say otherwise.
But then, I don't, for one moment, see myself as 'average'
either. Whatever an 'average' person is. I am unique and unrepeatable in being
'me'. As are we all. Supposing for one moment I am average however, the quote
that "average people think money is the root of all evil" is wrong
anyway - it is that the love of money
is the root of all evil.
Nor is it that poor people think selfishness is a vice and
rich people think selfishness is a virtue. Mother Teresa famously considered
herself the most selfish of all because she gained so much from giving all that
she could.
Nor do I subscribe to Steve Siebold's (author of “How Rich
People Think”) belief that the road to riches is paved with formal education; I
do entirely believe that it comes as - he so states that only rich people do -
in acquiring specific knowledge. Should I ever become rich in monetary terms,
it will be precisely because of my unique and unrepeatable accumulation of such
specific knowledge.
And I do not believe my best days are behind me either.
Life, for me, means I have only just begun, and it is because I am following my
passion I believe this.
To take a basic overview of the World Population, and to
thus divide it between two basic categories of either 'rich or 'average', governed
entirely by a set mentality, is as simplistic and as naive an assumption of the
human race as anyone could possibly make.
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