Poor is a State of Mind
Broke is a state of finance.
I read an instagram post yesterday and it had an infographic on it comparing the attitudes and actions of the poor versus the rich. One of the comments below was that the word ‘poor’ should be replaced with the word ‘broke’. I left the comment that poor is a state of mind, while broke is a state of finance.
I am flat broke. Literally. I have no assets and I only have rent for the next two weeks and after that the world is looking pretty dire. I’ve been investigating many ways to make some quick cash and I have to tell you, most of those Youtube gurus are full of crap.
Yes I could get busy selling stuff on ebay and facebook marketplace, and they are still pencilled in, but I have a larger plan afoot.
I’m not poor. I’m broke.
When you’re poor you have the attitude that you’ll never make it, it’s the world’s fault, there are no opportunities for ‘people like me’ that you’ll never get out of where you were born and you don’t try very hard to do that.
When you’re broke, you just have to work out how to do things without money, but you still have plans, goals, hope, belief that things are possible.
I grew up in very dire means. I’m not going to say poor because we were never poor but we were in a single parent family, where the dad was the parent, which in those days was not a thing like it is now.
But we were never poor. My dad was and still is the most brilliant mind I have ever met and he gave me that gift of information, education and enquiry. We used the library every single Saturday and came home with piles of books and went back the next week to return and get more. We went swimming at the public pool. We went to the art gallery, museum which were free. I learned a deep culture. I went to far away places in books. I learned from great business minds. I learned from great inventors. I learned that other people’s mothers had died too.
I was rich beyond my wildest dreams and I didn’t even know until my early 20’s that we were what was considered to be poor by everyone else’s standards.
I have been without money and resources many, many times in my life. This is just the latest challenge of how the hell am I going to get out of this.
But I have never, been poor.
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