Do you have your health? Be thankful. Do you have people in your life who will stick with you through thick and thin? Be thankful. Do you have enough food to eat? Be thankful.
And if there's one pasture our eyes glance toward perhaps more than others -- it's the rich person's pasture. "If I were only rich, then I'd be happy." But would you?
A STORY from BRITIAN
British magazine mogul Felix Dennis published a book some months ago titled, "How to Get Rich." And he does indeed write about how one might get rich. But he also describes the downside:
"Happiness? Do not make me laugh. The rich are not happy. I have yet to meet a single really rich happy man or woman -- and I have met many rich people. The demands from others to share their wealth become so tiresome, and so insistent, they nearly always decide they must insulate themselves. Insulation breeds paranoia and arrogance. And loneliness. And rage that you have only so many years left to enjoy rolling in the sand you have piled up.
"The only people the self-made rich can trust are those who knew them before they became wealthy. For many newly rich people, the world becomes a smaller, less generous and darker place. It sounds ridiculous, doesn't it? Ridiculous and gloomy.
"But then, you are to consider that I have been very poor and I am now very rich. I am an optimist by nature. And I have the ability to write poetry and create the forest I am busy planting. Am I happy? No. Or, at least, only occasionally, when I am walking in the woods alone, or deeply ensconced in composing a difficult piece of verse, or sitting quietly with old friends over a bottle of wine. Or feeding a stray cat.
"I could do all those things without wealth. So why do I not give it all away?
"Because I worked too hard for it. Because I am tainted by it. Because I am afraid to. All those reasons and more. Perhaps, if I am lucky enough to become old, I will accumulate something else: the courage to give it all away before I die. That would be a good thing, I think."
"Happiness? Do not make me laugh. The rich are not happy. I have yet to meet a single really rich happy man or woman -- and I have met many rich people. The demands from others to share their wealth become so tiresome, and so insistent, they nearly always decide they must insulate themselves. Insulation breeds paranoia and arrogance. And loneliness. And rage that you have only so many years left to enjoy rolling in the sand you have piled up.
"The only people the self-made rich can trust are those who knew them before they became wealthy. For many newly rich people, the world becomes a smaller, less generous and darker place. It sounds ridiculous, doesn't it? Ridiculous and gloomy.
"But then, you are to consider that I have been very poor and I am now very rich. I am an optimist by nature. And I have the ability to write poetry and create the forest I am busy planting. Am I happy? No. Or, at least, only occasionally, when I am walking in the woods alone, or deeply ensconced in composing a difficult piece of verse, or sitting quietly with old friends over a bottle of wine. Or feeding a stray cat.
"I could do all those things without wealth. So why do I not give it all away?
"Because I worked too hard for it. Because I am tainted by it. Because I am afraid to. All those reasons and more. Perhaps, if I am lucky enough to become old, I will accumulate something else: the courage to give it all away before I die. That would be a good thing, I think."
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What did Napolean Hill said?
In a recorded speech (Napolean Hill) in the 1950s, he said the saddest thing about his research was to discover that not one of those wealthy people came close to having peace of mind.
What did Dennis said (above)?
It seems that rich comes with a lot other things but almost certain, it does not comes with peace of mind.
Rich is relative, most would refer to financial, what about rich in health, rich in good relationship, rich in intellectual, rich in kindness, rich in compassion, rich in tolerance.
Well, in short just be thankful of what we have. Be happy, not because we are not rich (financially), but because it is a state of mind. Of course it is not a sin to be rich, it could be predestined.
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