If You Don't Want to be Poor

“If you don’t want to be poor, then you never will be.”

Piggy-backing on my short paragraph on empathy vs. love, I feel that this quote (from the perspective altering real life story now made motion picture, “Blow”, starring Johnny Depp as drug Lord Boston George Jung.) Wealth isn’t a state of being, nor is it a level to be reached, but rather it is a personality. One that evinces to the public and air of self worth and with that, self confidence. Richness is the perfected state of satisfaction, which is found in different things for different people, often wrong things but things nevertheless. Poverty occurs not because of a lack of monetary funds or health and food resources, but out of man’s overwhelming desire for empathy and his ever aflame relationship with laziness. Happy people are always rich because they are cognizant of the things which they do have and devoted to furthering the appropriation of what they do not have. Poverty is rampant, but often among the wealthiest of citizens. Those that have never lived without can never truly treasure the things they are with. People are born into richness because they are born of richness not because they are bred by richness. Richness is a way of life and not a spendthrift party hard drugged-up one, but a way of confident, satisfied, gracious, and devoted living. Poverty is a way of life to often embraced by those who don’t have a right to its empathy. By people whose desire for attention and affection have grown so terribly ubiquitous, encompassing every part of their lives and their nature as they live for affection by dying to themselves.