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Originally Posted by HDTV Bucks
Money solves some problems and causes different ones..
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So true. Long story short when I was 18 I received a trust fund from death of parents. Money is not only bad because it changes your priorities and value system. But what's the worst is it changes people around you.
Now don't get me wrong. I still have some of the same friends I did have back in highschool, and grade school that stuck by me for good and bad. But.. there were some who had to be jettison.
These are the one's who ask you to buy them things for no reason. Clothes, or other materistic things. Also those who women who wanna chummy up to you because of the nice car and pad. The one saying I came to hate most was, "Well you can afford it".
You would hear this when they asked for something. Or when you loaned them money, and they were suppose to pay you back and never do. Insert that phrase.
The lesson I took from that was simple. Money is a nessesary evil. It's a means to an end.
If you let it comsume and define you as a person, then you are going to be in real trouble. Because when the money's gone, so will a lot of those new so-called friends be. Having a lot of money is a serious responsibility. Both in managing it, but making sure it doesn't change the person you are.
Also it's best not to talk about your wealth to people because you will get all the sharks coming after you. If you want the hottie gold diggers it's great. If you have no soul, and know they are there for one thing. So you can run through them like underwear. But if you want more meaning out of life. It's best to keep the finances behind closed doors so people like you for who you are. Not what you have, or can give them.
