"A bitter taste of poverty will make your wealth taste sweeter than honey."
This is a quote that came into my mind when I was checking and saving my emails during my routine trips to college. But this, I feel, has a lot more lasting impact, even though at that time I only made money through Associated Content (the site you're reading this article on, or where this article came from,) just like a starving artist writing articles for money. But I sidetracked myself.
(I don't use the word digress like others do. I use understandable words like this instead to help make understanding things easier.)
The reason I say this saying is because of either the rich and wealthy who don't see the blessings of their luxurious abundance, those who are well-to-do but don't have the time to smell the sweet roses of park avenue, or mainly, in a worst-case scenario, those who receive their late (rich) relative's inheritance and have (rarely) spoiled children to whom their dead give their money to. These lucky few are sadly blind to the truth: The truth that they didn't stop and count their blessings. They don't have the time, or even the effort, of being thankful of the riches they've acquired. Overall, they don't appreciate their wealth, and sometimes they take it and use it without any thought until they lose it.
In summary, the wealthy, rich and famous millionaires, multimillionaires, billionaires and other "aires," live and enjoy the good life, but they don't appreciate it! They don't stop and smell the sweet roses in the garden of their lives!
This is why I've said that quote earlier. Sometimes the rich and wealthy need a bitter taste of being broke, if not complete poverty, to perhaps realize with complete clarity, not only how fortunate they are of the fortunes they were given or have earned, but cause them to find other ways, old or new, creative or already existing, of making money from scratch in case of becoming bankrupt, broke and landing in the poorhouse.
If I were a teacher of wealth appreciation and enlightenment, my course would be this as written:
Wealth Appreciation and Financial Survival 101
"In this course, I will be glad to teach you the true values of your wealth in order to have you count your blessings and to appreciate the good life you've been given. You will be reduced to being a part of the poor or middle-class masses, the 95% of people who are struggling just to get by. You are cut off from all sources of your wealth and riches. Your entire bank accounts, your inheritances, any and all of your multiple streams of income, they will all be frozen and locked out of your grasp.
If you got any living relatives, they can support you, but this, however, is an option you can take or reject, and they are restricted from giving you more than at least $10 dollars. That, along with the food stamps you will be given by the government, are for the bare essentials of life, that's if you can afford them:
- Food
- Water
- Outfits
- Shelter
- Electricity
Remember: the choice is up to you, and you yourself.
You can take up a job if you want, but that's a side-lesson to teach you of the Rat Race. Don't think of a job as a place to serve and slave away for a measly paycheck, rather you're earning money to have it work for you. Think of a job, a career, a moneymaking hobby or anything that you love to do for money as Dead President Drafting or Cash Recruitment. Think of your money as your own soldiers, servants, slaves, etc. Just imagine if an army of George Washington, Abraham Lincolns, or even Benjamin Franklins were yours to control and command to do your bidding! You can send them out to have them make money for you while you're out doing what you love!
You are also allowed to use leverage-based resources; free ones at best. You can leverage other people's time, money, talents, and energy; even pool your cash with other struggling people's money as a team with the same goal of obtaining wealth. Leverage your resources to your advantage, and remember to learn and use your millionaire mentality that brought you wealth before you started this course.
You can also go out and look for treasures in other places and search for gold, silver, jewels, rare artifacts, etc. If you have enough money from your working at a job, you can buy a metal detector ad use it to find anything worth some money.
