I look back on my life and income levels...
I earn less now than I have since 1980.
I have less savings, less stuff, and no longer own a home. Yet I live well and am happy.
(Live well in my perspective, not all)
Prior to 1980 I spent months on the road, hitchhiking around, living hand to mouth, working long enough to get some cash and hitch to the next town. Or living on the beach juggling and playing with friends and then juggling at night for coins in a hat to do it all again. No cell phones, no rent, no worries.
In between there was 4 decades of the American dream, wife, 2 kids, home ownership, 2 cars, in ground pool, parties, church every Sunday, 60 hour work week, soccer coach, scout leader, entrepreneur...made a lot of money and spent a lot.
What is progress to me, what is enough to me, what is bliss to me, what is happiness to me, is not progress, bliss, happiness, or enough for all....it is all perspective.
I love a life that others would hate.
In the above chart....there are people in each level of income..who feel as I do. And I guarantee there are more people satisfied with their condition, their lot in life in each of the lower three, than the upper one.
Wealth is not money, it is a life of cultivating family, friends, health, acceptance of reality, of purpose, of small joys...I wish that, this myth of progress for all (who want it)
Peace starts within
I earn less now than I have since 1980.
I have less savings, less stuff, and no longer own a home. Yet I live well and am happy.
(Live well in my perspective, not all)
Prior to 1980 I spent months on the road, hitchhiking around, living hand to mouth, working long enough to get some cash and hitch to the next town. Or living on the beach juggling and playing with friends and then juggling at night for coins in a hat to do it all again. No cell phones, no rent, no worries.
In between there was 4 decades of the American dream, wife, 2 kids, home ownership, 2 cars, in ground pool, parties, church every Sunday, 60 hour work week, soccer coach, scout leader, entrepreneur...made a lot of money and spent a lot.
What is progress to me, what is enough to me, what is bliss to me, what is happiness to me, is not progress, bliss, happiness, or enough for all....it is all perspective.
I love a life that others would hate.
In the above chart....there are people in each level of income..who feel as I do. And I guarantee there are more people satisfied with their condition, their lot in life in each of the lower three, than the upper one.
Wealth is not money, it is a life of cultivating family, friends, health, acceptance of reality, of purpose, of small joys...I wish that, this myth of progress for all (who want it)
Peace starts within
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