Money Dreams
I have said for the better part of my adult life “money is money, you make it every day.” I’m far from rich, but I’m also not living below the poverty line. I have valuable skills that are attractive to employers and clients. Thankfully, I have had very few, very short seasons of my life where I have been unemployed. This is where my attitude toward money comes from. You really can make it every day, and therefore, you can travel, go to school, go out with a friend for dinner, and so on. In essence, you can live your life.
Now, I know that there are many, many people worse off than I am. But for the sake of this post, I speak in general terms. There are always roadblocks to everyone’s journey. An example of a roadblock for me is living in a city where my chosen field – my one true love as I often remind my husband – is dead. I had to go back to school and qualify for a completely different career in order to earn any money. I’m lucky that I can pursue my all dreams – though it takes me away from home often – and make money doing them. Many people are not.
I love this quote when it comes to fulfilling your dreams:
“I think the hardest obstacle for me was just convincing my wife that it would be okay. I just told her, I said, “Honey, I can always go get a job. I can always go work for someone else, but I don’t want to live at the end of my life thinking, “What if?” I read somewhere in a book that the richest place in the world is the graveyard. People die with dreams that are never fulfilled, businesses that are never started, loves that are never found, and I think all of those people died with one question, and it is “What if?” And the goal of my life is to figure out how to live my life in such a way that there are no “What-if?” questions if I believe I can do it, I’m going to try.” – Corey Bell
Money can be made and it can be spent. The point of money is to live a fulfilling life and try to help others. I don’t want to be on my deathbed and wonder what I could have done. I’m happy to die a little more poor spending my money trying new things and contributing to good causes than rich and never having had experienced life.