The whole world with a few exceptions is
involved in a race for money, name and fame. And yet, ask them if they are
happy. You can show off your opulence, your power to the world AND have many
people in awe of you, even eager to befriend you. But you know they are not the
right ones. In fact, it is really lonely at the top. You get insecure, don't
know who to trust, start using people to multiply your money and power and
needless to say, people won't do it for the love of you. And you can't buy love
or respect. You lose sleep trying just to sustain your room at the top.
I am sure people feel good when they are
chased and admired and clamor for one photograph with them. The feeling
however, is hollow. There are empty places within where you will never allow
people. At best, loyalty from them may be bought by you and again lasts only
till you keep filled on the pockets. Despite possessing much, you know you are
not wanted for yourself but for your worldly possessions.
People who run after you for what you have
will run away from you the day you don't have it. What remains intact and fills
up the void and makes you really rich are love of family, goodness and
charitable attitude towards each other, mutual respect.
Attitude of gratitude, forgiving and
forgetting, kindness, and empathy in fact, humanity, humaneness which is the
only religion that will work and these are not buyable.
The rich are those who are gifted with
THESE qualities. And certainly, these cannot be bought. Either you have them or
you don't. And if you want them, you can’t buy them. So, here we are....
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Speakingtree Blog: www.speakingtree.in/public/surekhakothari
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