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1 year ago

The biggest thing I've realized lately is that the more money you have, the more money you will want to spend. So you never really feel like you have enough. That's why I really like the idea mentioned in this video of learning how to be satisfied with what you already have. This is especially true of us in the first world. We get carried away by envy and comparison and believe the lie that other people live happier lives than us because they have all this stuff, that they are "living the dream". But the fact is that the only reason they have all this stuff is because they are stressed out all the time trying to maintain their excessive lifestyles. And if they stopped pushing to get more and more stuff then they would realize that happiness was already within their reach. The irony is that people in the third world that come to live in the first world have a tendency to become like this the most. They have lived their whole lives in poverty feeling envy for those in the first world who have everything they need. So when they come to live here and get a job, they carry their envy with them and buy into the lie that they need more and more stuff. Their family back home wonder why they are so stingy in sending money. But the family doesn't realize that the "cost of living is much higher" where we live. You never feel like you have enough.

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