why do you want to be rich?
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Why do we feel the need to be rich?
We're told all the time, sacrifice your 20s so you can enjoy your 30s. Sacrifice your 30s so you can enjoy your 40s. Sacrifice your 40s so you can enjoy your 50s. And then what? And then what? You probably want to be rich. you probably want to have a lot of money. That's probably something that you deep down know would solve a lot of your problems because we have always been taught that money is success and money is something good and money is status. Growing up, maybe there was a group of kids that were from the affluent part of town. Maybe they grew up in Inverness and you grew up in Palatine and And you realize that, dang, I would love to have 40 pairs of Jordans that came out every single week. I would love that. I would love to get a hoverboard during Christmas. That would be great. And so as you went through the rest of high school and, you know, you would ask your parents, hey, could I get, you know, some Lululemon pants, some leggings, some ABC pants?
And they would say, what, do we look like we have a mommy? Are you crazy? You instilled it in your brain that you needed to make a lot of money. That was an expectation that was put on you because that made you feel inadequate growing up. Why am I speaking as if this was me? Because it was me! It was me. I always knew when somebody I grew up with had money and I was envious. Until I started to work for things myself and I started to put time and effort into things myself. And I started to meet people who were very successful, who had a lot of money. Different kinds of successful too. Sometimes they worked their boonda off to get it. Other times they had a family member who got a lot of money and then they, you know, passed it down a few generations. It's interesting.
All of them still have problems. All of them still have stress. All of them are still worried about a lot of the same human things that we worry about. Not having enough money. That's a very privileged place to be in, right? Like, let's be completely real. There's a good chance you have a desire of wanting to be rich. It's the American dream. You want to make a lot of money. You want to be successful. Whether that is because you didn't have it growing up. Whether that is because you're a first gen kid. And your parents sacrificed everything. And you feel indebted to them. And you want to retire them. Or it's because everyone around you is doing good. So you feel like that's the standard. And maybe right now you are grinding like an animal in a cage.
Because you want to get to a position where you will have a lot of money and you will be using that money to patch up the holes and the insecurities of your childhood, of your adolescence, where you didn't feel as worthy because you didn't have it. And that's good. I'm glad that you have this motivation. I'm glad that when you wake up in the morning, all you can smell is green, green, dollar, dollar bills, y'all. I love that. Good for you. But what about now? What about right now? Because what I said earlier, right? Let's rewind. A lot of those people who have wealth still stress and have the same problems that some of us have right now. It makes you wonder if obtaining all of that wealth will actually fill your bucket of happiness. will actually make you feel content in your life. Because I think that, you know, we hear this cliche of, Money doesn't bring you happiness. Well, when you can't eat something, you have money to buy food. It does bring you a lot of happiness. It takes care of your needs.
But there is something very, very true about the fact that money cannot just gift you happiness if you don't know how to be happy right now. You won't be able to appreciate success in the way that you think you will be able to if you are upset right now. Because money will take care of your needs and that's great. You'll have a place to live. You'll have a place to eat. You know, a place to eat. Hopefully not Chili's because maybe by the time, you know, in the future when you get that money, it'll be $20.50 and instead of it being $60 at Chili's, it will be $600 at Chili's. But Will you be happy? Because a lot of us already have our needs met. Sure, maybe it's not in a luxurious way. Maybe we're not going to Irwan to get the Hailey Bieber shake. And instead we go to Jamba Juice.
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