Money, Part 5 - Being Poor Sucks

Being poor sucks.

I have been rich, and I have been poor,

and being rich is better.

The starving artist thing gets pretty old at a certain point.

I remember as a student spending summers working at my dad's office, a sheet metal factory in Queens NY,

and hating it, counting the hours I worked there,

and doodling over and over again:

The Best Things in Life are Free! The Best Things in Life are Free!

And I still believe this to be true.

But I would rather spend a day at the beach with a $50 bill in my pocket than be worrying about how to buy my next meal or where I am going to sleep that night.

You can have a lot of money and still feel poor, and you can have a little money and feel rich.

So I guess to some extent

once you get past the bare necessities

being poor is a state of mind.

Money doesn't buy happiness

but I am certainly happier when I have money.