Do you know "poor"?

[franksters]

I have a few stories of my own as well... but these days were''pure'' mostly beccause you were young and innocent you didn't know better and your parent loved you that was it.

then we decide to move out of the nest, it's tough but we tough it out, kraft dinner ect... but we would find cash to get smashed almost every night with friends... eat at the girls friends... and it was gr8!

but seriously a whole life working 9-5 for shitty money, with a boss that WILL kick you out whenever his left balls feels funny...

no thank you!

having the essentials just not cope it for me and it shoudn't for anyone else either, why not be the one with the liberty of quitting if you don't like it anymore, or the one that goes back to school at 40 to realise a dream, or simply the ones that travel the world for 6 months every year!

i'm I wrong egspecting this out of life?

why not? why contempt ourselves with what we have?

I believe a person should aim for more, cause if you settle, you slowlystart to die.

[Ellyllions]

You have a strong mother.
Someone to admire.

[Dan]

Originally posted by Ellyllions
You have a strong mother.
Someone to admire.

She's The Best.Love My Mum heaps.
Taught me a lot about life and I get my sense of Humour from her.

[franksters]

I lost both my parent around the age of 21 for my mom and 23 for dad...

to this day there is not a day that I don't think about them.

I wish they would be here with me to share hapiness with me and my own little familly...

I know they see me, and it is comforting.

[Ellyllions]

Thanks franksters...now what am I to do with this lump in my throat?

I'm sorry hunny.

[Terry]

Originally posted by franksters
I have a few stories of my own as well... but these days were''pure'' mostly beccause you were young and innocent you didn't know better and your parent loved you that was it.

then we decide to move out of the nest, it's tough but we tough it out, kraft dinner ect... but we would find cash to get smashed almost every night with friends... eat at the girls friends... and it was gr8!

but seriously a whole life working 9-5 for shitty money, with a boss that WILL kick you out whenever his left balls feels funny...

no thank you!

having the essentials just not cope it for me and it shoudn't for anyone else either, why not be the one with the liberty of quitting if you don't like it anymore, or the one that goes back to school at 40 to realise a dream, or simply the ones that travel the world for 6 months every year!


i'm I wrong egspecting this out of life?

why not? why contempt ourselves with what we have?

I believe a person should aim for more, cause if you settle, you slowly start to die.

Not so much about getting complacent.

One should be able to realize whatever dreams one has. Totally agree with that. Go for it.

Just can't be bothered with setting up my life as some kind of race to see if I can collect more little green slips of paper than everybody else.

Because in the end what are you going to get out of it, anyway? A bigger roof over your head, more expensive clothes and pricier food in yer gut. Sure, nice to have, but not essential.

All I need is a nice chacha to put me whodilly in every now and then. All else is excess baggage.

[Ellyllions]

I believe a person should aim for more, cause if you settle, you slowlystart to die.

Bono said it best, "If you stop taking chances, you'll stay where you sit. You won't live any longer, but it'll feel like it."

[franksters]

it's been a long ttime ago, don't worry about it...

that's life you know, that's why I won't settle for just the essentials.

terry I totally agree with you on the rat race, ewww, can't stand that, for me the goal is not the money, the goal is freedom! and peice of mind, I don't live for the bigger and the better , really I live for quality time...

see my ultimate goal is to be able to work basically from anywhere, and i'm slowly achieving it.

the other goal is to have enough $$ to be independant, I think that says it all!

[Terry]

Originally posted by franksters
it's been a long ttime ago, don't worry about it...

that's life you know, that's why I won't settle for just the essentials.

terry I totally agree with you on the rat race, ewww, can't stand that, for me the goal is not the money, the goal is freedom! and peice of mind, I don't live for the bigger and the better , really I live for quality time...

see my ultimate goal is to be able to work basically from anywhere, and i'm slowly achieving it.

the other goal is to have enough $$ to be independant, I think that says it all!

I can dig it.

Freedom rules.

Freedom for me and my monkey.

[franksters]

unfortunatly freedom as a price...

you can only be free when you can afford it. it is sad that most human are trapped.

the system is to blame, but what can we do?

[Douglas T.]

Big sigh ... I go from comfortable to poor and back to comfortable on a regular basis! By choice I can say .... I have the ways and means to have a larger more productive company but "settle" for the small studio instead. We ran up to five employees at a time for years ... get's to worrysome. I keep small not because I'm lazy because I choose to have less. Confused? my work ... cabinetry brings me in contact with all levels of class from the very very rich to the very very poor! The best people I know are poor!

[Hardrock69]

I was fortunate enough that all I had to worry about when I was a kid was being a kid.
Certainly kids these days who grow up in a single parent household end up having to learn responsibility at an earlier age than I did.

But all I had to worry about was simple stuff....
Ya know...come home at night from running around the neighborhood and dump my pockets...bits of string, interesting looking rock, a penny smashed on the railroad track, some Bazooka Joe bubble gum.....that sorta thing.

I feel sorry for kids these days who are not usually able to develop their imagination through activity with nothing.....building an air force base out of dirt and lining all my model planes up on the runway....playing cops and robbers or cowboys and indians with almost nothing.....building a tree fort out of junk wood....

These days kids have to have their cable tv, their playstation, and a computer or they throw a temper tantrum. And if the parents suck ass at raising them, they have temper tantrums even WITH all that crap....

Oh well.....life goes on....

[binnie]

Originally posted by franksters
Aren't we all ''poor'' or is't just everybody else that's rich?

The man who's hitting the girl in your sig is one of the richest men on the planet!

[binnie]

Real poverty: probably not.

There was always food, heating and clothing so I have never endured any real hardship in that sense.

But being poor compartively, definately.

My mother is disabled and my dad had to stop qorking to look after her when I was 9 or 10, so throughout my teenage years I was always aware that money was tight, and EVERYTHING had to be thought about before it was bought. I never went without the basics, and my parents sacrificed everything: they never really went out socialising, didn't drink go to the cinema or anything like that, just to get us by.

As I get older I realise how sould destroing that must have been and why they eventually separated: living with each other 24/7 with no hope of any change in the routine or a break eventually made them fall out of love, and they probably kept it going several years longer than it should have just till I finished school.

But I think it made me the person I am: I used have a chip on my shoulder because all my friends at school, and definately at University, were far, far better off than me and I had to work from being twelve to but a lot of my nice clothes and CD'd etc that their parents got them. But that instilled a drive in me (I'm still a workaholic) that got me some of the best grades in my school year, and allowed me to finish second in my University class (out of 200 people at one of the top five University's in England). So it turned out good in the end, and I definately appreciate tha value of money: earning things is far more rewarding than being instantly gratified.

But to reiterate: I've never nedured real poverty, never missed a meal or been cold.

[Douglas T.]

Most of us are ... excuse me ... lower class! Dr.'s & lawyers and such .... middle class .... movie producers, actors, atheletes and people like that are upper class. Then there's the filthy HIGH clas Bill Gates people! DLRARMY people are the best class! Class dismissed!