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Recently, a therapist put up a tweet on Twitter saying the solution to most people’s problem is money— that lack of money is the major cause of their breakdown. How true is this assertion?
If we really want to be honest with ourselves and realistic, we will say yes, the assertion is true. Absolutely, Money is not everything but the majority of things have to do or related to money, I will say the 90% of things. Let me show you some examples; money to eat, money to dress, money for heaRead more
If we really want to be honest with ourselves and realistic, we will say yes, the assertion is true.
See lessAbsolutely, Money is not everything but the majority of things have to do or related to money, I will say the 90% of things. Let me show you some examples; money to eat, money to dress, money for health, money for your family, money for a car, money for rent, money to buy a house, and the list goes on and on. You need money for almost everything. But what happens with your life when you lack money? When you are lack of money you are in a big problem and you know why? Because all those examples that I listed earlier and even more will be out of your reach and not only that, you will facing many bad experiences. When you are lack of money nobody cares much about you, people don’t respect you, family sometimes don’t take you into account, people look down on you and humiliate you, lack of money is nothing more and nothing less than a life of misery; and with that status you are out of the environment of a good life. Lack of money is like you be in a desert and abundance of money or at least the necessary is like in a garden of beautiful flowers, necessary you don’t need to be a millionaire or magnate to live a good life but at least the necessary and a little more, but if you aspire to be a millionaire or magnate, that is also fine and okay.
What is the most unusual way you found out someone close to you was quite wealthy?
I was in university the, I was friends with a student who was from Asia. His older brother had been at the same university and had done very well. But my friend spent more time in the pub and at the snooker table than in lecture halls. Occasionally he would say he was short of funds and would I lendRead more
I was in university the, I was friends with a student who was from Asia. His older brother had been at the same university and had done very well. But my friend spent more time in the pub and at the snooker table than in lecture halls.
See lessOccasionally he would say he was short of funds and would I lend him some money, which I did. He repaid me in a haphazard way but I figured he was keeping count. I just considered that he and his family were not wealthy and his family were doing their best to support him as an overseas student. A few years after we finished university I had a stopover in his city, gave him a call m, suggested we catchup, and he agreed. But he was not happy— why was I staying at a hotel and not at his family’s place. I said I didn’t want to have them put up witha stranger. He said a car will pick me up and hung up. A car with two rather burly men came to the hotel, told me to pack my bags and to go with them. They took me to a tower of apartments, took me to the top floor and to a suite where a butler was waiting. My friend arrived shortly after. He was upset saying that I had caused him to lose face. He owned the tower of apartments and put me in the penthouse. Turns out his father had been giving him and his brother a tower of apartments for their birthdays and now they had several of these blocks of apartments in the city.
His father came to see me and told me that I had thwarted his plans to have his son on starvation rations at university in the hope that his son would have no money to do anything but study.
Finding out more, I found that they were a very wealthy family. Pleased to say that we are still good friends over many years.