What I Think Of Rich People

Have you ever thought someone was a certain way and all of a sudden, after getting to know them a little more, realized that they are completely different?

I actually had a few of thoses experiences lately, and was pleasantly surprised.

And both had to do with my perceptions about "rich people".

Let me explain.
Growing up, I would say that I never really knew anyone who was what I would call "rich". I grew up on an isolated farm 20 minutes away from the nearest town, which had a population of 300 people. Everyone pretty much knew each other, and people were either doing "ok" in a middle to upper middle class way, or they were struggling financially. People went to church, heard all about how blessed were the poor, and how a rich man couldn't get into heaven (I was raised Catholic). Stories about very wealthy people made many grumble about how "they don't need that much! They should give it to those who need it, instead of spending it on themselves!" and about how "if a few get all the money, there won't be any left for the rest of us!"...

Needless to say, it wasn't very positive.

Most ideas I seemed to remember from childhood revolved around the concept that money was somehow a bad thing to have, and if you could manage to live with less, and help people by doing more for them (even to the point of being poor yourself) that made you a good person and you would go to Heaven.

AND, at the same time, movies, the news, and the "media" in general seemed to promote this idea that rich people are bad people, or that those who are really wealthy have done and are doing bad things with it, and that they all conspire to keep most of the world poor so they can keep getting richer...

Does any of this sound familiar?
Can anyone relate to this?

Do any of you see how potentially dangerous these ideas could be?

So lets be logical here. As a boy I hear that money is bad. I don't want to be a bad person. So, I don't want money. But, I need money to live in society...Oh, the messes we put ourselves into by misinterpreting the words of others!

Anyway, to make a long story short, over the last few years I have been healing my beliefs about money, and helping others with that as well. It has been refreshing to understand the truth about how money is neutral and can be used for good as well as bad, depending on who is using it and why. I've since seen "bad" people become rich and continue to be "bad". I've also seen "good" people become rich and do extraordinary things for the world.

Wealth is like Health, there is an unlimited amount for everyone. We just have to cultivate it.

More to come...

CHB

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