I’m quite sure most of us are familiar with the phrase – The rich also cry, in actual fact, it is one of my favourite TV program when I was growing up. The question that pops into my mind today is “Why would a rich person cry?” – The answer to this is simple – everything we do in life is directed by our emotions. Our emotions control how we feel about a situation whilst dictating what re-action we should take towards an action. A philosopher once described “emotion as the energy in motion” – so currently I’m not rich and I have decided to write this little note according to my emotion…Enjoy!
Before I start, I would like to ask a simple question – Do you know the person in my displayed image? Well, yesterday (6/01/2010) on my facebook status I posted ”No matter how bad things, there’s always someone worse off than you. I am currently not very rich, anyone wants to cheer me up?” – Although I believe most people would have interpreted my “not very rich” as lack of money at that moment. The truth is I was bored, I needed to do something fun. I consider myself an energetic person that constantly needs to be involved in one thing or the other. As the scientist would say “energy cannot be created not destroyed but it can be transferred” so I wanted something going on. If you don’t transfer the energy you have someone else would lack it. For life to continue, we need to continue. However, I was not entirely surprised by most responses of people trying to motivate me. If only we could decipher people’s thoughts?
So back to my question”Why would a Rich Person Cry?” - Just like me, a rich man is entitled to cry. Many are rich but they still cry over one thing or the other. Many are talented, many have what you don’t have but they still cry…the recent tiger woods’ scandal has just confirmed the popular saying that money or fame does not bring true happiness. True happiness comes when you can truly satisfy your body, spirit and soul.
The good news is that we can satisfy our body. It is in actual fact the easiest of all. However, where does this leave the “spirit and soul”? Unfortunately, these are things we can’t see. Everything falls back to our emotions as I have previously mentioned. Our soul consists of our consciousness and personality. Our personality determines things we are conscious or not conscious about hence, I don’t think it is right to judge our fellow brother as having a bad personality. He is simply not just conscious of the habits as bad things. Albert Einstein once said “Everything is relative”, these includes how we feel and think.
Here is a little reality check about how we live our life. What do we consider riches and success? How do our body, spirit and soul respond to our actions? Do we feel really satisfied with things we do? Have you ever noticed that what we want in life suddenly changes when we have the previous heart desire? Are we ever going to be happy with ourselves? Someone once asked me what I really want to do in life… I answered saying I just wanted to be happy, make people around me happy and live the purpose driven life. What do you really want?
I hope you enjoy – I believe your answer is what you really want.
To be continue…
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Peace,
By Manifest
Very philosophical, I like the way you think.
I hate how parents say, ‘Eat all your food, think about all those starving children around the world.’ Like me eating all my dinner is filling the bellies of children all around the world.
Or ‘Cheer up, at least you are not going through what A/B/C is going through.’ So I am supposed to replace my tears and anguish with a cheshire cat grin and laughter at the concept that at least I was not that poor sod?
Of course, it makes sense and I can understand what is meant but humans are not conditioned to behave like this.
Sadness, happiness, etc is all relative.
Money, fame, success or popularity does not necessarily change all circumstances for everyone.
When you have everything on a plate, what you want changes, as you say. What can you get someone who has everything? Often things have less worth, and are appreciate less. Buying a new dress in a department store for a party is not exciting anymore. Life’s little pleasures are not fun anymore. And sometimes people can become thrill seekers and big risk takers, losing their grip on reality and what’s really important.
Not justifying Tiger or any other similar famous men, but their warped self belief in invincibility and general boredom/lack of satisfaction of their presumably lacking lives may have driven them to do what they did.
Just a theory….