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The Blood sucker, Financial Ignorance.
Why wasn’t I taught about MONEY, how I should be spending it investing it or making any sense out of it. What annoys me is that I’ve been ignorant about it in school, my college life or even while I’ve been working for organizations. What kind of wisdom have I acquired on the salary that I’ve been earning and saving in my bank account? I am angry and frustrated; my education degree did not teach me how to manage my money. Ideally it is should have started from home, the primary source, my parents. But that hasn’t happened.
All of a sudden the clock strikes noon, and it has come to my realisation, with my eyes swirling about and while getting lost into wonder asked my self a question. “Why do the rich get richer and why I am where I am?” I earn and spend and the cycle goes on. The attitude sucks overall in the society that I’ve been in, expenses mounting over. The difference between my best friend and I is that my parents asked me to find a good job to get into a good company while my friend was told by her parents to study well so that she could buy a company.
A series of questions kept popping into my head, I kept answering them all, quick came the answers, all of which lead into sheer ignorance, Abra Kadabra and then next one popped up. Well have I spotted enough of opportunities to direct my monies or get into additional streams of income? I tire out working in the job that I am in and then there is my stinking attitude which comes out of the feeling of oppression, “I’ll never be rich”. The chains of bondage are here to squeeze me tighter until I can breathe no more.
Next question,” What is my financial net worth?” Dishoom…Bang it hits…I am supposed to be a commerce graduate. I’m not aware, pops the answer.
Next question,”What comes to mind, when I think of Finance?” Ahhhh…the monster, Income tax, and to be honest, I know scrap about it. The one thing I know about it is that it is sucking the blood out of me…I keep asking my self in regards to the same, “Is it necessary to pay tax at all? Darn it, some wise crack told me, Yeah it is.
I need to get my money act right, is what I have decided. A choice is what I’ve had to make…Hmmm and I know the power of choice, it could now make or break, I.
I dare to ask my self one last question “How many “I’s” are there in my treasured country?” hmmmm.
I’m a commoner, here to spread light :) Sunshine.
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Well, quite an interesting thought…but being ignorant abt money has its benefits…You not become money-minded…else whatever you do starts to be calculated in terms of profit n loss…
But then there is another school of thought that says we should know what do do with the money we earn… our folks will never teach us this, neither will schools…Its we n we means I who should decide my worth…financial worth.. The guys who understand that are the ones who are successfull , the ones who are ignorant miss the bus…n work like donkeys….slog throughout life…
The power of choice always lies with I … Its how I use it that matters.. most of us dont use it…or dont want to use it… Most of us are not guided by our own thinking but we have been brainwashed to think in a certain manner…Until we break that cycle… we shall articles like the above… Just the heading will change…
Start thinking independently….Its just one life…