The Rich And Poor

To be human, in totality, is to be rich. Being rich is being someone to anyone.

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It is common in many societies to limit the qualities of rich and poor to financial status. To reduce the totality of these concepts to something as trivial as financial assets.

The argument is that finance is measurable, can be quantified and used for rating. But is that all there is to these two concepts, measurement. Should one turn away from other attributes that define these concepts just because they can’t be quantified?

Pushing the finance-based classification model has brought about a lot of moral decadence. Humanity has somehow found a way to forget what it really means to be human.

And to be human, in totality, is to be rich. Therefore, is being human synonymous to being financially endowed? Or those the absence of finances make one any less human?

Money and other financial assets fall at the bottom of the list of being rich. Having a lot of financial assets is just a very little potion of being rich, so little it can be neglected.

Being rich is being someone to anyone. That is, being rich is being impactful, it is giving to another all that you can, it is reaching out, touching lives and bringing change.

Being rich comes from a pure human heart, one that has made peace with its reality and has in its own way, devised a means to exist as it should.

Being poor is living with emptiness within. Emptiness that nothing tangible can fill. Not sex, not food, not drink and not even drugs or anxiety. Not the rush.

Being poor is being totally alone, just you and your assets. It is living a life of zero impact.

When humanity first began to allow finances run the world, in that instant, humanity began to die away. And in its place, a vile creature began to take form. Full of envy, hate, jealousy, double crossing, anger, self-centeredness and so much more.

Financial assets are not in themselves evil, or bad, but they have an uncanny ability to pull out the worst in every one.

To awaken the beast that must sleep for humanity to exist.

Some argue that it encourages hard work and service to the community. But in essence, all it encourages is a deeper fall into an abyss, where there is no telling man from monster.

The differences between the rich and the poor is glaring. It propels the former to a point where the later constantly strives to belong. The heart of man.

When one teaches and heals, when one cares and loves, not just their own but all people, they then are truly rich.

While a rich man builds an empire helping people, a poor man builds an entire planet with people helping him.

Rich people seek to aid their fellow man. The smiles and happiness that wed the people they help is everything to them. They live in a community wherein people love and respect them not because of posts they hold or what they have, but because of who they are.

Poor people are feared and respected, for any other reason but who they are.

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The rich are part of a network of lives they have changed, smiles they have helped create. Lives they have saved, for no other reason but that they needed to be saved. They are selfless and, in that selflessness, are many different things to many different people.

But one thing essentially, good.

Poor people are part of a network of lives that better theirs, lives that keep them where they are for any other reason but love.

Rich people are full of the most priceless asset, love. Love for people they are yet to, and may never know. Love for family, friends and nation. Love for nature and a strong desire to edify the world. This love, they freely give.

“Love is something you give away and it comes right back to you”. (Lyrics of a childhood rhyme)

Poor people on the other hand are trapped in the corners of their own bodies. Suffering from the pain of emptiness, the void of love. Their journey to edification starts with their first encounter with love.

There’s so much that tells the rich from the poor. That easily pulls off the sheep clothing off the wolves. Revealing the empty, broken, poor wolf behind. That reveals the empty vase yearning to be filled with something more. To fully understand the reality of humanity.

Examine the realities that are yours and make peace with them. What is the driving force behind operations, what is the reason behind every action? What are the benefits to fellow man and how much more can be done?

Learn, teach, inspire and keep going. Man’s heart was built to love and care, to believe and to hope. Not just for one’s self but for all of humanity.

Find your crazy and go wild. But in all that, remember to really live and truly be human. All the wealth in the world cannot make you rich.

“Poor people have just their money”

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It is okay to be financially dominant, but it is an abomination to think that because one is wealthy, then one is rich.

In your own little way, begin to impact and heal, begin to reach out, begin changing lives.

Start getting rich.