My Wife and I are 80,000 in debt because we wanted to be smarter.
How smart is it to spend that much money, when you never had any of it in the first place?
"...but, everybody else was doing it..."
oops.
Go America.
I'm tired of spending. That's all we do. That's the basis of almost every hobby. Video games. Computers. Phones. Clothes. Music. Cars. Beer. College.
Our society is based on money. Without it everything falls apart. That is just honestly sad.
I've thought about the middle ground of this money issue for a very long time. I've tried to tell myself not to be extreme about it.
BUT,
money just screws it up for us.
We tell ourselves that we need money to survive.
(i.e. "If I had enough money to take care of ______, then I would be able to survive.")
If we do need money to survive, then how am I alive? I have 80,000 in student loans and like 150,000 in hospital bills. I am negative money, as are many of us. Are we dead? I think we're told that we should feel death approaching when money is not found. I think we're given the idea of money being hope, love, happiness, responsibility. If it had no meaning, how would anyone get rich? Ahh... without being rich someday, what's the point of life? What's the point of life, if I can't "live it up" someday?
If money helps life going on, then what am I?
I surely am not dying.
I act like I am sometimes.
I am just very sick.
I am not dying.
We all aren't dying.
We are just expecting to die.
Which is worse for the spirit.
My G-d, my G-d, why have we forsaken ourselves?
shalom. shalom. shalom.
3 comments:
i remember that night me, you and JR sat up in your room in the freezing cold and drinking beer just before you had to move out. i remember it was a great time, and amazing things were said, but i dont remember what we talked about. we used to be good friends.
^^^^^ at the church ^^^^^
a guy came to my church and talked about advertising tactics(not what his message was about). he said that all the successful ads we've ever seen hint at the fact that "if we have______, we will never die."
they teach marketing majors that three things make advertising successful. money, sex, and death. if any of these are in an ad, it will work.
anyway, what i mean to say is that we have grown up in a society that teaches us that we need "something," "anything" other than God to "be."
unfortunately they were only trying to sell us a coke be that is what we learned.
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