Practically Random Rant: What is it to be Rich?

Change…I sure have heard that word a lot lately, but when have I not?

I am sorry to be serious on another post, but this blog is for me, it is my little creative outlet in which I Photoshop my own pictures for, which is like a double barrel shotgun of a creative outlet, but instead of lead balls, it shoots out teddy bears that just kind of cuddle me for the split second they pass by my head.

Anywho, as I was saying about change, I began thinking, why change? Has anyone stopped for a second and think that this might be how it is supposed to be? What is so wrong with right now? I know that there are a lot of jobs lost and money out the window, but maybe it is a good thing. I have had a change in occupation during this mess, 2 of them actually. I am grateful they occurred, it caused change, but not because I wanted it. So who is to say that things will change because we want it to, maybe we should be content for what we have and create confidence and humility in our various circumstances and let the change happen as we focus on love and service. Let the blind lead the blind and the rich be rich, let them have all they want. I have seen people who grew up in a country where at 12 years old they were on the front lines of war after being stolen from their family. They were taught and to kill their own blood, so they ran away and eventually made it to another land where they could go to work everyday and celebrate life in every way possible, because now they do not have to put a cross hair on their brother. They have no worry for the materials of another, what car they drive, how they ripped them off or how the government is taking paths that are not to be trodden, because it was only a fraction of their focus. They learned to read the white page behind the black letters, they learned how to observe rather than assume and most importantly how to control their own lives and actions instead of anyone else. I once read that there was a study conducted where 5 monkeys were placed in a room with a banana hanging over a set of a couple of stairs. Every time a monkey would touch the stairs to get the banana they would all get sprayed with water. Eventually a monkey was replaced with a new monkey and the water was turned off. The new monkey went for the stairs and the other beat it down. Soon enough all of the monkeys were replaced one by one and unfortunately they would beat each other from getting the banana and have no clue why. None of them ever were sprayed by water and the water was off, but they had a learned behavior and had no clue that it was wrong. A lot had changed, but was for anything better? I am curious as to whether or not we are the same as they curious little guys. Are we so focused on change yet still doing everything the same and expecting the same consequences, Yeah you have to learn by experience, but as we observed, depending on experience alone we can hit a brick wall. Individually we need to turn ourselves from objects to subjects and begin serving others instead of waiting for other to serve us, or think that we are owed something. All we do is cause another to not be able to climb the stairs, retrieve the banana and allow us all to go back to our home. Even if we are owed something by somebody, or even the government, let it go. Let the blind lead the blind, let the rich be rich. If your perspective has not changed yet, that last sentence is still out of sight. Let the blind lead the blind and let the rich be rich, let them have all they want. I am hoping to that rich will soon be perceived to be an individual who is content with what they have and the perception of the blind to be and individual who is discontent even though he cannot see around his pile of money. Rich is the man who has no bounds to his gratitude. Rich is the man who can give of his own two hands unto those who are unaware of their abilities. Ever changing is the environment of he that is rich, due to the countless people he helps to rise to their feet and see their worth and the value of those around them. Change in my life has been from people who are rich, not because I wanted it, but because they unexplainably caused it. There are rich people all around you, but due to unknown consequences we don’t reach out and prove our subconscious myth untrue. That is what a rich man does, that is what it feels like to be rich. Or in other words, as we become rich, we see the value in others and how rich they are. Otherwise, you will sit here demanding for change and all the while, change passes you by.

Change…I have sure heard that word a lot lately, but when have I not?