This question is not mine
this belongs to a wise man
i dated briefly
it wasn’t so much a question
as a sort of self-revealing answer
that came at the end of a chat
about life, wealth, ambition
he has been there all,
done that all
and wears a sort of detached worldview
that is both mildly annoying
and insanely attractive
we were discussing my ambitions
in relation to my life choices
and what I would have to give up
in order to live up to my own expectations
his point was that
there is a threshold
that makes life comfortable
and looking around my lifestyle
he believed I had already achieved it
and then
he went on to explain how
there was 10X multiple number
to my current lifestyle
that was the only real next threshold
and that everything in between
was going to feel like empty calories
and not add any real value to my living
he was right
and I told him so
there was a real stoic truth
in that assessment
but that was not the end of that conversation
cos my ambition is not 10X
it's 10 times more!
and so
somewhere
in my mind,
i started brewing
the economics of happiness
i started to see
what money meant to me
in the real sense of it all
did it matter in the real sense
how much i held
or how much i could do
with the money i made?
it’s all very easy to talk
so I looked back at my own past history….
to thread together my relationship
with cash money….
and here's what I discovered:
Ive used money to do things
always
not selfishly
but for the greater good
money is essential to my existence -
i like to cook good meals
and host friends well
i like to gift folk nice things
and give to someone that needs it
without wanting to ask it back
i like what money can do
when it is deployable at scale
and I like that i can earn it
and demand it
and walk away from places
because i’m not held hostage
by some future bill come due to pay.
i like to play with it
invest it
see how much it grows
how soon:
and in which instrument.
i like to see how people behave
around it
inside it
for it.
i like to see how money makes
philosophers and paupers
fair weather friends
and hoarders
i like to see how the love of money
can be tamed
and controlled
and put to work
and more than all
i want to see
myself handle that kind of money
and still stay humble
stay ferocious
stay loving
stay strong
i want to believe
that my happiness
will remain in doing
in being
and in knowing
and i believe that the economics
of that equation
is timeless
Awesome 👍👍👍👍👍