April 8, 2013
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Blog Entry
Where is the money.
I'm really not sure how people get money. I know a lot of people have money, and it is just a little beyond me how they get it. It's like there is some secret I was never taught.
My Granddaddy was a farmer. My Meemaw was a farmer's wife. They lived on a small farm and worked sunrise to sundown everyday but Sunday. They lived in a small house that was never updated (unless you call what they did to it in the 70's an update). They lived from harvest to harvest with debt in between. Yet they gave food out of their garden to neighbors and needy. They also provided spiritual and moral guidance to everyone in the community. In other words, money was of no importance, and wasn't really present.
I believe this is how I approach work. My job is my life. There is no money. It really blows my mind that the amount of work a person does has no bearing on the amount of their paycheck. I'm tired of people saying, "I can make $3000 in one day just by making a phone call." Do you realize what I am doing to get half that amount? Hours and hours and it's not working. What is it about you that makes that money available? Would it even be possible for me to have the same opportunities? No. The things I sell, no one buys. In someone else's hands the same items would be productive. Other people are successful with the same things I have to offer, and even less. I feel like I have more appeal in some of those cases. It's just me. And I am tired of it.
This is where I fail at life. Also, in love. I fail at that, too.
Leah K.
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Leah, *HUG*
HEY! If it was there, I'd be that guy that'd be on your jock so hard, you wished you failed at attracting guys
@BenelliMan - *HUG* back
Sometimes it's difficult not to compare ourselves to others and think, "What am I doing wrong that they're doing so right?"
It might help to look at others' success and, rather than using it as an opportunity to bash ourselves, to say, "what can I learn from their successes that I can apply to my own situation?"
Also, love is overrated.
Many people earn money without ever being happy. You are being sustained by something that makes you happy. You do not have to have the most money or the nicest house because your spirit is happier doing what you love. And you, like your granddaddy, are a very giving person despite your means. And that makes you a WIN WIN WIN in my book. Now about the love thing, I'm working on getting John Johns number for you
QuantumStorm's advice about finding what you can learn is good along with HangingbyAMoment22. I have to disagree with the "love is overrated" piece of advise. But then that's because I'm on the other side of it.
I really don't know how people are successful. I know compared to Walter's family we are the only working people. We have a job and we go and we have insurance and everything. Everyone else in his family is either retired or works "under the table." Or doesn't work at all and asks for money from his mom.
On the other hand with my family, Walter and I are the lowest rung. We're working at a factory. We don't have a "career."
I think it all comes down to perspective. And the not spending the money part is hard. Because there's that ridiculous quote that "a penny saved is a penny earned." Damn straight because it's so hard not to spend the stupid thing.
The only people who can make $3,000 with a single phone call are prostitutes, drug dealers, and the mentally ill.
I wish I had some uplifting advice to offer, but I too share your disillusionment. The only solution I know is to keep learning about "how the world wags and what wags it," as Merlin said. Then maybe one day we will understand.
I used to wonder the same thing about money. I started doing investments. Yes it's very similar to gambling, but there's money in there. Also anything illegal gets you a lot of money fast. We should all plan a heist!!!
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