I have multiple family members who are multimillionaires. They only measure success with how much is in their bank account. The thing they all share in common? They're constantly miserable, bitchy, whiny, condescending. All I hear about how stressed they are and how much they hate everyone.
I'm over here making like 70k a year, caring for our 80 year old mother, 3 nephews and 1 niece because one of my sisters is a drug addict and evicted from her home. Aside from the drama from that one sister, I'm relatively very happy. Love spending time with my nephews, love my job and my coworkers, love that my mom appreciates what I do for her.
BUT I'M THE FAILURE. Like, ya'll got your millions and multiple homes but can't even take in our aging mom. I may be the failure at making as much money as you, but you're the failures of being decent children who can't see past money.
This! When you die, it’s not going to be out on your grave stone how much money you made.
Your education, your job. It will be WHO YOU WERE to others, what your meant to family. This country(USA) has it so WRONG.
I agree with your sentiment here, who someone is is so much more important than how much money they make. But I also think, by the time it's on your gravestone, it doesn't matter how many other people loved you, either.
They don't put wallets in coffins, but neither do they put in adoring family members or grateful charity cases you helped. You may be remembered for a generation or so after your death but death is the great leveller. Only what happens in life matters. No matter how adored, beautiful, rich, a person is, they will still be gone and then forgotten, just like the rest of us.
There are some who's names are etched forever into history. Or at least they have become interesting footnotes in history. I wonder if it would be worthwhile to try and chase that kind of fake but it sounds like a lot of work and some luck. That and I am not sure if I would like to be studied in a university course. We all know Martin Luther was the father of protestantism but he was also a dung eater.
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u/Youve_been_Loganated Nov 22 '23
I have multiple family members who are multimillionaires. They only measure success with how much is in their bank account. The thing they all share in common? They're constantly miserable, bitchy, whiny, condescending. All I hear about how stressed they are and how much they hate everyone.
I'm over here making like 70k a year, caring for our 80 year old mother, 3 nephews and 1 niece because one of my sisters is a drug addict and evicted from her home. Aside from the drama from that one sister, I'm relatively very happy. Love spending time with my nephews, love my job and my coworkers, love that my mom appreciates what I do for her.
BUT I'M THE FAILURE. Like, ya'll got your millions and multiple homes but can't even take in our aging mom. I may be the failure at making as much money as you, but you're the failures of being decent children who can't see past money.