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Originally Posted by lastlight
I'm not rich. I won't ever be.
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And of course there is absolutely nothing wrong with not being rich. Most of us are not rich, and many are even less rich than that!
One lesson my parents taught me is that you actually don't need that much money to live decently in this world. In 1979 my parents, with a 3 year old and 9 month old in tow, left their home country on a rickety boat with 200 other refugees. We lived in a refugee camp for 6 months before we were fortunate enough to be sponsored by a church in Calgary. We lived in that Church's hall for a while. My dad made money cleaning the church, my mom made sandwiches for 7-11. Fast forward 30 years, my parents are still doing the same thing they did 30 years ago. They have kept with those jobs because they actually enjoyed it. Probably because they appreciated the fact that it was worlds better than the alternative (misery) that they left behind. They were able to comfortably provide for their children, buy houses, cars, food, clothes and even helped put both kids through post secondary education.
Not that anyone really cares about all that.. but the moral of that story is, you don't need lots of money to be happy and successful.
I call this photo, "The Pursuit of Happiness"
This kid (and his family) started out with nothing more than the shirts on their backs, literally.