We should all be very clear that resisting adversities is a virtue in any area of life, and when it comes to wealth and poverty topic, it is even more so.
Facts and truths
The truth is that most of the people in the world want to have wealth, that is not a secret to anyone, and this is so because we want to guarantee a better quality of life for our families and for ourselves. But it is an undeniable fact that the majority of people in the world are in poverty (and some are much more poor than others).
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The fact is that it is normal that we want to obtain wealth, and it is from this perspective that many people have warned that resisting adversity is very useful and necessary both to survive in this world and to finally achieve a comfortable economic condition that gives us the financially situation known as wealth.
Wealth gives us freedom of action and personal freedom, helps us to live with dignity and in a comfortable way, and brings us all kinds of benefits in this world.
The problem that happens when many reach wealth
Resisting in the face of adversity when you have no other choice but to do so to survive, is a necessity, and therefore a virtue; but the problem with this is that many people, once they reach the desired economic wealth, they do not mentally overcome the condition of extreme poverty they previously suffered; and they live a life in the midst of limitations, depriving themselves of even the most necessary things for themselves and their own families.
The problem is that in such cases, poverty has penetrated so deeply into people's minds that when they reach their ideal or goal of wealth, they do not understand that they must give themselves another more dignified lifestyle for themselves and their loved ones.
And I want to clarify with this, that I am not referring here to a person having to become a spender of money when it becomes a millionaire, because that is not the point. What I am referring to here is the fact that there are people who have developed a condition of pathological stinginess that prevents them from seeing that what they pay is what they get in this world.
Regarding this topic, I invite you to read another post in which I speak exactly about this point: You pay for quality: how much you pay, how much you get
That is to say, these people do not understand that quality in this world (be it regarding food, clothing, housing, transportation, and any kind of material thing that we can imagine) is paid for; that is to say, quality costs money, and therefore, the degree of quality that we obtain in what we acquire will be directly proportional to the amount of money that we pay for it.
And the quality of life that we obtain as a result of it, will have a higher level of satisfaction for us depending on it.
What's the point of being rich if you're going to live a life of limitation and deprivation?
What is the point of wanting to be rich if once you achieve it, you have not changed your mentality to understand that you can and should give yourself and your loved ones a better quality of life? As I said, I'm not talking here that we should fall into wasting money when we are millionaires, what I mean (I emphasize again), is that if we are not going to live a better life when we have money, then what is the point of longing wealth?
Certainly there is also the opposite extreme, that of people who, having achieved wealth, fall into the most extreme hedonism and squander all their money to appear to have a standard of living that they cannot sustain in the long term, but that is another case, and it is also something that is unhealthy for personal finances, because sooner or later, it leads to poverty again.
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In any case, we are talking about a lot of people losing their minds when they achieve wealth; because either they get stingy in the extreme (which is the main topic I'm talking about today), or they get too spendy and wasteful. The truth is that economic wealth has that particular effect on most people, that is, the effect of wanting to go to the extremes or polarities of the matter.
Suffering needs and hardships unnecessarily is not a virtue
When a person achieves wealth, or a certain economic level and always seeks to buy the worst things (of the worst quality) for itself and its family, what it shows is that it is a miserable being. Such a person demonstrates that it has no understanding of wealth, nor why wealth is desirable over poverty.
It is as if said person does not believe ir deserves better things and therefore does not believe that its family deserves them either.
Because suffering needs and hardships when you are poor, and resisting them, is a virtue, because you have no other choice but to endure calamities in that sense; but unnecessarily suffering needs and hardships (and putting your children through them), is not a virtue, it is a miserable and reprehensible act in every way.
I give you a concrete example of the situation: I know people who were born in extreme poverty, and over the years, by resisting calamities and after much effort, they managed to obtain goods and extreme economic wealth. But the problem is that they never abandoned the lifestyle and mentality they had when they were poor, and it is not only that they do not live in decent living conditions, nor appropriate to their wealth status, but that they put their close relatives (children , wife, etc) to live in miserable conditions that are unjustifiable from every point of view.
They do not fulfill their responsibilities and do not care about anything other than accumulating money. And the truth is, there is an underlying problem with all of this; and it is something that these types of people never realize; and it is the fact that misery begets misery, and wealth begets wealth.
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Which means that if you are rich and assume a wealth mentality, you will call more wealth, because you will begin to develop a mentality that will allow you to produce more wealth, and you will feel fully motivated to do so; because you know that you will get better things every time and best quality of life for you and yours.
But if you are rich and assume a mentality of misery, then you will be calling more misery in your life, and your economic wealth will be ephemeral, or meaningless, because you do not know how to enjoy it, because you are selfish and because they do not understand that if you do not enjoy it in company of your family, you are a wretch who has not understood how wealth is forged and what is the meaning of having wealth.
This topic is something very interesting, and I am sure that it will strike a chord with many people who will not agree at all with what I am saying. But even if they do not want to admit to other, they will have to admit it to themselves.
I repeat, resistance leads us to persist in pursuit of our wealth goals and therefore it is an undeniable virtue in life, but once the goals are achieved, we must enjoy the fruit of having reaching its (with restraint but with joy). Because living in extreme austerity unnecessarily is not a virtue, but a vice, a defect, stupidity and something that we must avoid at all costs if we want to continue progressing in life and developing a wealth mentality.
What do you think about the topic discussed? Please comment.
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