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Originally posted by jade_dragon
I want everyone to answer this question in their heads, be honest with yourself, you do not even need to answer this.
1) How many people do you know who have a million in disposable income?
2) How many of you who do know someone who has that much ever get to hang out with them and/or see how their life really is
3) Did that person make the money through hard work or did they just get it handed to them?
Here is something for you who can not say yes to any of those to think about and what those of you who did answer yes may already have learned.
Don't you find it interesting that all the stories about rich people being so miserable with their lives are usually in some feel good movie or some story simular to "The ant and the grasshopper"? Perhaps these stories are set up to make you feel better and most of all complacent in your lives, to give you comfort. "oh yeah he has a bunch of money but he is miserable and alone". Was this set up in society to make you sit in your position in the midst of the status quo and limit your drive to knock off the guys at the top? To make you sit there and work to make another man money. Keep believing that a life of hard work that results in large sums of money is empty and sad, leaders of companies need people who think like this to make them rich.
What is a life? Getting drunk and yelling at the television with your buddies as grown men play a game? Getting high? Going to the club and forcing your way though a mass of people, having smoke blown on you and drinks spilled on you? Bragging about how many chics you banged? Or is it retiring at 35 because of your hard work, being able to live a life of comfort then instead of ending work when you are half dead at 50? If I got hit by a car tomorrow at 23 with the amount of work I done, the accomplishments I have made and having sacrificed all that earlier stuff I would have no regrets at all. I work my ass off for most of the week yet I have friends, I have people who love me, I have my family, I have financial security that grows everyday, I have my companies and I have my health.
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You make some good points and honestly I am too tired now to go into this debate. But you have to agree that in this biz the more you work, the more you earn..but in the same time the less free time you have. ( sure there's a saying work smart, not hard, but let's not get into this right now ). And - we aren't talking here about getting high in clubs and banging random chicks - we are talking about spending the weekend with the person you love.
IMO there should be also place for love in your life before you hit 35 and retire. And please note that most people in this thread ( "even" Sleazy Dream ) had chosen the girlfriend over a convention. So I hope so did Derek, although I could really care less
