TRUE WEALTH
It is the wealth a man shares that are his true worth - his riches.
This is the “bread” from which true nourishment is obtained for his mental, physical and sensory well-being.
This is also the “love” he natively holds deep within his very soul which can find expression in so few other ways.
This is element of “exchange” which make him an interactive entity with all others of his kind for mutual betterment.
For individuals and nations to collect and endlessly accumuate quantities of coinage, of knowledge, territory, gadgetry - of any such holdings, and keep such posession at all times to themslves is to be working toward the construction of their own hollow tomb where they will be placed by people who will no longer remember them with joy and wqhohave no rerson, whatever, to regret their having been taken away.
It is so very easy for us to harp on the history Man which shows only his special excellence as related to others whom he may have deemed to be of a lesser position. Man's evolvment has been a slow process. He has learned much about himself and his associates, and, I think, if you look closely at his major steps forward they have been time-after-time, dependent on his ability and willingness to co-operate with others and to share his acquired knowedge, his sensual abilities, and his wealth.
It isn't difficult forus to see this in other nations and in other individuals. It is not so easy to discern the same qualities, or the lack of them, in our own individual lives.
To go the full lenth of his interesting and demanding journey can be difficult as well as reqarding. Learning self-management seems to be the secret and sustianing material if you want tobuild such a structure withinour lifestyle. Be sure, for instance, that you know where you are going. A great many people - far too many- have no idea what their goals might be. Any attemts to get there are futile and largely a wasteful spinning of undirected wheels.
Keep such goals reasonable is also a good starting point. Molehills can prove to be as challenging to the beginner as hills and mountins do to experinced people who set out seriously to cope with life's problems. Some scoffers hold that we must redistribute wealth to improve the world's economic and social balance. Far more important is to concenrate on the need for the common wealth to be shared rather than reallocated in some arbitrary manner.
A.L.M. January 10, 2003 C-430wds]
