Being poor and feeling poor don't necessarily co-occur. Being rich and feeling rich don't either.
Roscivs thought that most folks should work out a personal definition of being rich. For him, it was I can buy any food I want. He declared himself rich.
A good "personal definition" is one that could actually apply to the person who makes it. Being rich is a location, not a horizon. Even if one's not there now, one (theoretically) could get there.
(If you've already attained it when you define it, all the better for you!)
I believe this outlook is key in a healthy concept of "rich". Beware of changing the goalposts: If every time your cup is about to o'erflow you make your cup bigger (SuperSize Me!) you're in for a life of ingratitude and greed. Maybe that doesn't sound so bad to you, but it sounds bad to me.
Gratitude improves quality of life more powerfully than pretty much anything else.
I submit that greed detracts from one's capacity to enjoy and the capacity to be satisfied. And obviously(?) I value those.
While I've struggled a lot with feeling poor since Roscivs died, I've
refused to be the Red Queen when it comes to being rich. I've fought to maintain the mindset that rich is a location and not
a horizon.
It was somewhere I had been.
Maybe I could go there again.
I just wanted to say, I'm back. I'm here. I'm dirt rich!
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