What makes you want to be rich?

Well I don't necessarily want to be rich in life, but it could be nice. I just want to have enough money to learn things in life and to travel. I love traveling and I want to see so much of the world before I die, I just want enough money to cover my travel expenses, but it will be hard to travel and work, you can't have a low paying job and expect that they will let you go away a lot to travel, so you almost have to be rich to be able to afford traveling and being out of work for a while, I really hope that no matter what happens in my life I will see what I have on my list of things I must see before I die. I am knocking a few off the list this December, I will go to Sweden for a month and I will see Spain and Germany as well. It's a lot easier to travel when you are a student and you get time off from school, though I am working my part time job so I can afford all of my expenses there, I am sure they will fire me though when I tell them I am going away, so I will wait a while to do that, it's not a job that I need though, only for the time being to travel and get some money for school, that's all I need in life! Well anyways, happy mylotting and have a great day or night, depending on where you live!

What makes me want to be rich? I want to have cars, and a nice house. I want to have the money to travel the world, feed my family, and help other people. Sadly, if you dont have money, there is not much you can do.

A very good question. Everyone wants to be 'rich' but what is 'rich'? Most of the time we use the word it has nothing to do with money. We talk of rich food or a rich joke without any thought of money (though the things that make food 'rich' are often expensive). Is your life rich? ... full of experience and love and things that make you deeply happy and at peace? 'Money is not everything' ... that is so easy to say when you have enough to pay your bills and it seems like it will continue. People who find it hard to say (and mean it) are those who think of money as the solution to their problems. Money can buy many things but it can't buy happiness. Most people who were poor and became rich through luck or fortune don't get any happier ... in fact the track record is that they become more miserable! It is worth learning about the lives of those people who feel that they are rich if they have a bowl of rice and perhaps a few vegetables and a little meat (or whatever protein is culturally acceptable) every day. When there is plenty in store, they have a party and share what they have in abundance. If they fall on hard times, then their neighbours will help out if they can. Being rich has nothing to do with money. Money was invented, initially to make trading easier ... if I have 9 sheep but actually need rice and vegetables to go with the meat of the one I have killed, what shall I do? You may have plenty of rice and vegetables ... and also plenty of sheep ... but you do need some bricks to build a house. Now, it happens that the brickmaker you know has a son who wants more sheep for his flock, but he needs 10, not 9 ... and so it goes on! Gold (because it was hard to find) became the standard for currency in many places and people who amassed large amounts of it were powerful (because they could buy what they wanted ... and much more than they needed). They could also hold large parties, which made them more powerful and got them elected to government. They were 'rich' and 'succesful' and something which we have all since learned to look up to as 'rich' and 'successful'. In the end, 'having money' came to mean 'being rich'. Not having money therefore meant 'poor'. Life was not meant to work that way and you often find that people with lots of money are really very unhappy - because they are always wanting more money (and sometimes party every day - so long as it is with the right people who they can trade with tomorrow), whereas people who have very little are happy and party every week because they have all that they need, so there is a cause for celebrating. Now tell me who is richer?