It's funny how life feels when you're a kid. I don't come from a wealthy family but my mom chose to hang out with wealthy friends, which perhaps skewed my perspective. When you're a kid, you look up to adults as if they know better in every way. As if every adult knows and appreciates a good steak, or a nice super car, or already knows everything about the world. It didn't take long to realize the average adult really isn't any smarter than a thirteen-year-old.
In my mind, I thought "you're an adult, you should have the money to afford whatever you want. Responsible, mature, successful adults will have at least one house worth a million dollars and a garage full of super cars, and everyone that doesn't has just failed at life. Being an adult should mean you should be smart enough to know how to make enough money to buy anything you want or need."
To be honest I haven't completely 100% given up that ideology, but I have realized there's more to life and that many people struggle with money. I felt like confessing this somewhere, and this subreddit felt right. You can tell me how wrong that thinking is, but to a kid you see people who are successful and people who aren't and you think that a proper adult should be successful, as if not being wealthy by the time you have a family is a form of failure.
I find the whole thing funny now though since all adults aren't rich nor do they have all figured out nor are they all intelligent creatures that know everything about everything. Shows how flawed that thinking was. You don't need money to be a good person, and it took me years to realize that.
Submitted August 03, 2017 at 04:40PM by thegap01 http://ift.tt/2vmUq2t
