Would You Like To Be Rich?

Would you like to be so rich, you live in giant homes and fancy hotels? So rich, you travel the world on a private jet, ride in limousines and wear designer clothes? So rich, you mingle with other rich and famous people and you are the envy of many other people who have far less money than you?

If so, you will discover you are not really rich at all. Each day when you awake, you will have a huge financial burden that must be met, you will be surrounded by people who claim to be your friends but you have no way to know if they really are. Because of your income, you tax bills are gigantic and with that gigantic income, tax agencies are always informally reviewing your filings for possible audit.

Because of your "deep pockets" you are readily the target of nuisance law suits in which litigants want you to pay them to go away, knowing it is time consuming and expensive for you to defend their lawsuits. Still others envy what you have and insist you should "help out" with their financial problems.

And most of all, because you have so much and much of the world has so little, like many other rich people, you may have bodyguards to protect you and your family from kidnapping or other harm as you live your life always looking over your shoulder for possible threats.

If you would really like to be rich, here is a far better criteria:

Do you have a family who loves you and values you? If yes, you already have something money can never buy, a harsh lesson many a billionaire has learned, especially as family fights have broken out over money. If you are healthy, you have something billionaires desperately search for, especially as their health fails and death approaches.

If you are well read. experienced in life and knowledgeable, you have personal growth, something we all strive for. If you have a home, food in the refrigerator, some clothes in the closet and got up this morning, free to do with your life as you will, rather than being burdened by huge responsibilities and an overhead to match, you are the envy of many a billionaire.

If you have eyes that can see beautiful flowers in bloom, ears that can hear music that touches your heart, legs that can carry you anywhere you want to go and arms that can hug and a smile that can light the world, you are indeed already rich beyond measure.

Dick