Are you Rich?

 Many of us get entangled with this elemental question of oneself being Rich enough to lead a comfortable life. Each one of us wants to get that ‘Security’ of life when we would be retiring and living a comfortable life without any help from our kids and pals – going by the current phenomenon in the society where kids damn care about their ageing parents and are besmirched in a world of their own, one certainly cannot expect them to be with you and serving you eternally...

It is this thought that takes flight and we start chasing that unimaginable dream of accruing financial security but in doing so we forget the definitions of being rich – for many of us, there are things which have been bestowed on us and we take those for granted, thinking so that these are our ‘Right’ – not so realizing that many of people around us are not so lucky to have them!

As our dynamics of living change, the definition of living an enriching life can be as this…

IF you are hale and hearty and not on any medication of any ailment and don’t visit the doctor or a hospital …You can consider yourself to be rich.

IF you just had a good night sleep and are not on sleeping pills to enforce that artificial trance state of mind, then have mercy on yourself and consider yourself to be truly lucky & Rich!

IF you have choice of what to eat and is always have a food on your plate which you cherish and take a long burp, please consider yourself to be outrightly lucky, know fully well that many people on this planet have much money but are still poor as they can’t have the sweetest of the dishes on restaurants menu as they have been strictly constraint for having them.

Also, if you are married and have a wife and kids who love and respect you, you are again in the league of super lucky souls – considering the collapsing family tradition where parents are looked down and abused by kids and have lost respect for them.

If you have parents who care for you at this age of your life and always call you on phone to ask your well-being and asking you subtly if you are well and having your food on time…this caring makes you the richest person on this planet! 

If you are surrounded by friends who love you and are always there for you for any eventuality and be present on first port call, consider your being as rich as a pot filled with Gold!

Certainly, this one is a far too aberration – You can pamper your conscience to be living as a rich person if you have a roof over your head which you can proudly call as “Home”- be it small or big and that you do not stress yourself out thinking of paying a recurring rent throughout the year and are somehow financial liberated for any major obligation of buying your dwelling….

Now that I stop and leave it to the readers to consider their dominion to be living a life of luxury or penury, considering the basic essentialities of life which I personally believe are more than enough for a decent living during our lives, for the rest, nothing soothes more than chasing illusionary dreams and dying for them unrealized… the choice of free will always be your consideration and evaluation…!!!