No one can correctly predict the longevity of their lives and this is why you shouldn't work to enjoy the money at a later stage. The truth is, so many people have spent everything they own simply because they've predicted wrongly how long their lives would be. There's something synonymous with people who aren't intentional about money.
These people feel that life is too short to build an empire of wealth that would probably not be spent by them, this brings a sort of limit to how they tend to express their abilities to reach for heights of success, achievements and money. Truth is, life is too short for our reckoning and also too long beyond our reasoning. How can I explain this paradoxical statement?
The truth is, money doesn't guarantee long life, but then it should facilitate and protect against physical hazards that directly threatens one's life. In reality, it's often nonsensical to chase all the wealth in the world beyond one's limitation to actually spend them.
Too Long Or Too Short?
However, to explain the second part of that statement, life subconsciously becomes too long especially when the resources to actually "live it" isn't available. People who do not have money, regularly see no essence to aging, this is because they weren't intentional enough in the first place.
This is why the rich blames the poor for not contributing enough and the poor blames the rich for taking all the world's resources including the one that is meant for them to change their lives with. The sense of entitlement is double standards from these two different people. In my early 20s I was faced with the situation of starving to death or working to death.
To me these two situation yields one result. I had health issues that could be fatal if I chose to work beyond my capacity, but if I didn't, I was faced with the implosion of being homeless and starving as well. In this situation, many would prefer the slower death by choosing not to work.
The Propensity To Live Intentionally
However, I did realize that one's quality of life can improve when you have the right amount of money. This basically translates to the fact that we need to show a sustainable urge for balance. Inasmuch as I do not have a child at the moment, nor am I married, yet I am already planning for my child(ren), a family and even more, the truth is, having money isn't just for one's satisfaction alone, the world would maintain a cyclical efficiency especially when people decide not to live for themselves alone.
This is one of the major problems of western African style of building and raising their families. In the country where I come from, most people see marriage as a means to afford constant and cheap sex, the fact that they're not financially buoyant, doesn't influence their choice of having less or more children, in this situation, their gratification makes them have more children of which they hardly plan or are intentional for.
So these people live life unintentionally never deeming it necessary to be aware of the implications of their actions.
A lot of people blame government for poverty, but the truth is not being intentional about one's life, makes it difficult to make plans, better plans that would influence them and others as well. So many people are not cognizant of their finance to see if they're losing or winning, they're in business, but have no physical or mental accounting of what they're doing.
Originally why should people keep records? To me, it's so that they can hold themselves to a fault and also accountable. The reason why we tend to hold ourselves accountable Is because we have a futuristic conviction to actually do better than we have done.
A lot of people do not have futuristic convictions, they're living to exist, not checking their expenditure or income to see if there's a level of balance, they hardly consider that living well could help someone immediately close to them when they die.
Mitigating Uncertainties
But, not being intentional about one's state of existence, is why they don't have a long-term plan towards saving, towards insurance or towards education. I know a lot of people who still believe it's foolhardy to have a savings when life isn't even guaranteed.
This is selfish and shallow minded because some feels they'll die earlier than they know, so they spend without reckoning, at the end of the day, it turns out that they've lived longer than they've planned and hence they'll have to battle or cope with poverty as a result of their ostentatiousness.
In truth, we do not know how long we live, but shouldn't we live well enough no matter how short? Don't our next of kin, society deserve the essence of our goodwill? Wouldn't that be a legacy to be left behind? Everyone deserves the good things of life and the fear of making all the whole money and not spending it limits the heights people can realistically attain in life.
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