Is There a Secret?

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This doesn't necessarily have anything to do with writing, but it's something I've been thinking about. Leave me a comment if you've been wondering about the same thing.

Where does wealth come from, you might ask. The bank, duh. That’s one place.

What about people who are poor but are happy? They have no money, and yet the wealth they describe is something anyone could have, yet not all claim.

Is this a riddle?

Maybe. Stay with me.

What if you could look at your life and see this: a person who is working two jobs, who is tired most of the time. A person who hasn’t had red meat in ages, not by choice, but just because it is a luxury, and who once upon a time had steak on a regular basis. You see a person who hasn’t bought anything new to wear from the store in years, yet still has attractive clothes.

You see a person who seems to have no expensive desires and yet lives frugally.

What about that person?

Is the person happy?

Yes. But the person doesn't have a large amount of money.

How can a person be happy with no money?

Well, their needs are met. The part of their life when they had desires and dreams is long gone. Passed years ago. They have not resigned themselves to poverty. They live in it. They have accepted it. They are happy with it.

Are they from Mars?

No, silly. They are not beaten down. They are your neighbor. They don’t trouble you with requests. They live quietly beside you.

How is it that they can be happy now when before they were well-to-do and now they are not? How is that possible?

Why don’t you ask them how they are? Conversations don’t cost anything. Keep them short. You might tell them you are trying to find happiness in your own life. It appears they seem to be happy now without a whole lot of bells or whistles. Ask them what their secret is.

Ask yourself how much energy it takes to be angry as opposed to how much energy it takes to accept.

Sure, you are poor where once before you were not, and yet you are poor, but you are happy.

Same person. Different circumstances and a totally different view of life.

It’s enough to make you think.

Okay, let’s pose this as a different sort of comparison.

Let’s take God.

What is the difference between a person who thinks God doesn’t care to the same person years later who now feels that God does care?

The person is the same. Maybe older. Maybe poorer. Maybe richer. Life circumstances in this instance don’t matter. What matters is how the person feels.

I’m looking now at people like Mother Theresa or the Buddha. I know they are far and away different from me, but what is it they found? They certainly didn’t buy it. They learned it. They accepted it. Perhaps it was faith. I don’t know. All I know is I would like to have that kind of peace in my life. To be able to not be affected by the minutiae, the upsets, the interruptions, the annoyances. I’d like to float serenely upon the waves of life.

I’m trying. Maybe you can too.

Peace Out.

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