I remember this one time when he took me on one of his side gigs as he would usually do to collect his pay and he collected a might sum of $100,000.00. I was so excited to know that my dad had collected that amount of money, but of course living in a third world country like Guyana; $100,000.00 was surely not alot of money.
Still. I was just too young to think about third world economies ad how weak the dollar was. I just wanted $7,000. Only that amount to buy this really awesome Fila. Hahaha. Fila. Can you imagine.
All day I pressured my dad into buying that Fila for me and he just kept saying no. I never ever understood it until I got older. $100,000 was just not a lot of cash. Not enough to take $7,000 from it to buy a silly Fila at least for a child.
Today as an adult, with adult friends and adult life it disturbs me to see how financially oppressed many persons are. Credit card bills sky rocket or maxed out, loans acquired from everything living leaning institution they is, hire purchase items and the list goes on.
I am sure it is very difficult to sleep comfortably with all that worry about where you're going to find cash to make those payments.
Very recently I started accessing the difference between needs and wants. They both mean acquiring something, but they mean totally different things. These too wants have defined the world we live in today. A world where lavish lifestyles and things we just want have caused many persons to be indebted unnecessarily.
Even more so, let us say you haven't taken a loan or you haven't got a credit card, but you're broke. Left wanting. Maybe you are unemployed. Maybe you couldn't find the first dollar to buy something you need even if it slapped you in the face. lol. It's sad you know. When you are broke, maybe hungry even and you step out to see persons flashing things across your face as if it means nothing to them. So much wealth in the world and you have absolutely no access to it. Sucks. Doesn't it?
So what's the secret? The plan, cause, whatever it is that allows those to have it to have it?
Interestingly enough I watched a video that the PewDiePie made. You see. PewDiePie is a popular YouTuber who apparently earned 7 Million Dollars in 2014 from his YouTube video uploads. Now if you noticed, I didn't say 'just by uploading YouTube videos'. One thing I know about YouTubbing is that is isn't exactly easy work and it consumes much time to shoot, edit and upload videos. Not to mention making time to do other things that are connected to your YouTube channel.
I laughed many times throughout his video as he thought it necessary to speak about why people are so mad for that fact that he made so much money.
I then realized all the more how ridiculously envious people are and not to mention, unreasonable and selfish. This guy who was broke started making videos because he loved doing it and joined a platform that is just as free to be used by everyone else just as how it is free to be used by him. Now, fortunately for him and as it is happening for many others, his views exploded and as YouTube pays for views, he gets paid for his views. Anyone can do it. So I am still trying to understand why exactly as people mad at him.
Finance and financial freedom is accessible by any living creature. So what I am missing here? What are you missing to cause yourself to be broke or up to your spine in debt?
Sometimes we just have to find the answers on our own.
PewDiePie's video....
No comments:
Post a Comment