Mentalechoes

It’s payday in a day or so, and I’m broke again for another month after bills and house payments and taxes and the credit card have been paid off for this month. God I am just so sick of being broke!

Whoever said, money doesn’t buy happiness, obviously never had any! Because while it doesn’t buy true happiness, it sure does make life a damn sight easier when you have shitloads of it. As much as we in the west like to believe that money doesn’t make you happy, I am sure when you’re rich, it’s a hell of a lot easier to endure being unhappy than if you were poor as a street beggar.

After the christmas / new year period my credit cards are suffering from some abuse I gave them buying some new clothes and some new luxury items. Having said that, I didn’t go totally crazy or anything, and I didn’t go close to maxing them out. On top of that I am still paying off some old bills that got carried through to this year. It just seems so much of the time that life is about working to earn money to pay off bills. Man, there has got to be a better way than this.

I remember being in Nepal a few years back on a trekking trip through the Himalayas. Our small group stayed a night at a place called Gandruk village which was 3000 years old. The people there lived very hard lives; everything had to be done by hand, there were almost no first world luxuries because the only electricity came from generators that were run for only a few hours at a time. But everyone seemed happy and content. The villagers all came together in a long hall of an evening and the adults talked and smoked and sang, while the kids all watched the one television in the whole place and ran around laughing as kids do. They shared everything they had, and noone worried about insurance payments, or car payments, or house payments, or buying endless consumer items that we in the first world believe are so centrally important to our lives. It was a hard life, and they all seemed much older for their age than the westerners who guested with them. But for all that, in so many ways they seemed to live much more fulfilling and happy lives than many of us do here in the West. I often think of Gandruk village when I am struggling to make ends meet financially; getting up and grinding a job I do not really like, all so I can keep up with life in the fast lane!

Yeah I think time has come to try to reevaluate how to make a living. Because this mindless day to day grind to just keep up with the bills is totally fucking soul destroying. Well other people do it, change their lives and livelihood to become financial successes. I won’t say rich, because everyone has their own opinion on rich, but a financial success everyone can understand. So if other people can do it, I figure I can, and it has to be worth trying.

Right, so how do you become financially successful? Anyone got any ideas?

Gonna start looking into this I think. Somehow there has to be a way.

Padwanna!