Money doesn’t make the man; man makes the money– that’s what I learned today 🙂
It’s 7: 15 PM on day 382 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, feed myself a peanut butter roll for breakfast, prepare and publish my Disability of the Day feature, tweet about my Clean Water For All Campaign – Peter –another one of Chrissy‘s friends – made a donation – thank you Peter you just made the day of someone you don’t even know 🙂 – watch The Rugby World Cup match: South Africa vs. Samoa – we won I asked people to donate to my campaign for every tri South Africa scored – no one did you win some you lose some I guess 🙂 – feed myself rice and curry for lunch, watch TV and Facebook about my campaign–no further luck.
Yesterday my father was telling me about someone’s very expensive house – size and everything about it – and hearing how envious he sounded I realized that it didn’t matter how many times I told him having more things and money doesn’t make you a better person because he had a different definition of success than I did – he perceives having things and money as being successful whereas, I perceive being of service every day as being successful (every time I do something for someone else without expecting anything in return I feel like my soul is filled I feel like a millionaire) – but I tried to show him what he already had one last time I said we have a house to which he responded but our house doesn’t compare to that house. Are you defined by your bank balance and everything that goes with it?
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Stan’s very sweet for saying so, but feel free to write what reflects you best.
Thanks to all my friends out there who are helping me make my dream come true: to make a better world for all of us!
I agree with you Nisha. Having more things and money doesn’t make you a better person and in my opinion doesn’t fully define success. To me success is defined as a combination of things. Yes it can include materialistic things but it’s not everything. I have been blessed to have some of those things but find they do not fully define my success or happiness. The most joy I get is like you said being of service (my soul too feels like a million bucks!) I get more out of this then all the material items one can have (not saying it isn’t helpful but it isn’t everything). This could explain why we are connected 🙂
Keep up the great job!
Chrissy
Thanks 🙂 Yes that could explain why we are connected 🙂
Yours truly,
Nisha